Game 45, 2023

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Dodgers at Cardinals, 4:45 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports Midwest, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA

LHP Julio Urías (5-3, 3.61 ERA) pitches for the visiting Dodgers and RHP Adam Wainwright (0-0, 7.20 ERA) goes for the Cardinals. This is just Wainwright’s third appearance of the year; he missed all of April with a groin strain he suffered in a workout prior to the championship game of the World Baseball Classic. He went 2-0 over eight innings in the WBC, so he’s apparently still got some skill at age 41. He’s got 195 career wins, right behind Clayton Kershaw.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1929 In the doubleheader played at Philadelphia’s Baker Bowl, the teams combine to score a record fifty runs when the Dodgers outlast the Phillies, 20-16, before dropping the nightcap to the home team 8-6. In the opener, Brooklyn’s Johnny Frederick crosses the plate five times, giving him the major league mark of scoring eight runs in two consecutive games.
  • 1931 Dodgers’ outfielder Babe Herman hits for the cycle for the first of two times this season. In 1933, as a member of the Cubs, he will again hit for the cycle, making him and Bob Meusel the only major leaguers to have accomplished the feat three times since 1900.
  • 1942 Night games in New York are banned for the duration of WW II, leaving fans in the dark about the status of the All-Star Game scheduled to be played at the Polo Grounds on the evening of Monday, July 6. The prohibition of nighttime tilts, announced by NYC Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, will change the starting times for 28 contests involving the Dodgers and Giants. (The first night game at Yankee Stadium will be played in 1946.)
  • 1998 With a 6-3 victory over the Orioles, the Devil Rays become only the second expansion team in major league history to sweep an away four-game series. The 1993 Colorado Rockies, who did it against the Dodgers, is the other team to accomplish this feat.

Another historical note: In 2004 At the age of 40, southpaw Randy Johnson becomes the oldest pitcher to throw a perfect game when the Diamondbacks beat the Braves, 2-0. The ‘Big Unit’ joins Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Hideo Nomo, and Nolan Ryan as the only hurlers to throw no-hitters in both leagues and creates the longest time span between no-no’s, having first accomplished the feat against the Tigers in June of 1990.

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64 thoughts on “Game 45, 2023”

  2. With them now labeling some of those sliders as sweepers, am I the only one who thinks of “sweepers, sweepers, man your brooms?” Or are there other Navy types here?

  3. Well, Jackson’s roll has changed. From mop up to keep us in the game and give us a chance at a huge comeback win.

  6. Is this the game we all quit watching and the Dodgers hit 9 consecutive home runs in 9th to go ahead?

  11. I go to play piano when they are down 7 and it gets wild. Is the wind blowing out 80 knots or something?

      • My usual 4 or 5 works I have memorized, and I started to tinker with a Godowsky transcription of a Bach fiddle sonata.

  18. From LA Dodger Talk in 2020:

    On May 28, 1954 Wade was on the other end of a home run barrage. In the eighth inning of a Dodger shellacking by the Giants he served up four home runs, hit by Davey Williams‚ Alvin Dark‚ Monte Irvin‚ and Billy Gardner.

    Wade returned to the Dodgers as a scout in 1962. The Dodgers must have seen some scouting genius in him as he became the Director of Scouting in 1973. During his tenure as scout and Director of Scouting the team was supplied with players that would lead it to eight National League championships and four World Series titles during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Among the players drafted during Wade’s tenure as scouting director were Mike Piazza, Rick Sutcliffe, Dave Stewart, Mike Scioscia, Bob Welch, Mickey Hatcher, Steve Sax, Mike Marshall, Steve Howe, Orel Hershiser, John Franco, John Wetteland, Eric Karros and Eric Young.

  19. Bickford maybe needed one more days rest or just wanted to say he is not a mop up pitcher.

  24. We are awful with stolen bases. Like Little League on our side and Major League on theirs.

  43. Dodgers starting the toughest stretch of the season tonight. 10 game road trip with the Cards, Braves, and Rays. Cards are playing much better since we saw them at home. I hope we do better, but a 5-5 trip would be acceptable.

    • Anything better than 4-6 would be great in my book (assuming 2 in StL and 1 each in Atl and TBR).