Game 70, 2023

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Giants at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: NBCSBA, SPNLA

RHP John Brebbia (2-0, 3.25 ERA) goes for the Giants and the Dodgers have yet to announce their starter in what’s planned to be a bullpen game.

Update: The Dodgers have brought up Emmet Sheehan from AA Tulsa. While

the right-hander has not pitched above Double-A Tulsa this season. Sheehan went 4-1 with a 1.86 ERA, striking out 88 batters over 53 1/3 innings of work. That dominance earned him a callup to Triple-A Oklahoma City over the weekend, though he hasn’t pitched at the level yet.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1933 Last year’s National League batting champ, Lefty O’Doul, and pitcher Watty Clark, a 20-game winner last season, are traded by the Dodgers to the Giants for first baseman Sam Leslie. Brooklyn’s newest infielder will bat .311 during his three seasons with the team, before returning to New York in 1936.
  • 2019 Trailing by three runs in the ninth, the Padres rally to eventually beat the Rockies at Coors Field, 14-13. The contest ends the highest-scoring four-game series in history with the teams combining for 92 runs, surpassing the record of 88 players crossing the plate, set by the Phillies and Dodgers in May 1929.
    June 13 – COL 9, SD 6
    June 14 – SD 16, COL 12
    June 15 – COL 14, SD 8
    June 16 – SD 14, COL 13

Lineups when available.

185 thoughts on “Game 70, 2023”

  2. Why are Vesia and Barnes still on the team? And please, nobody tell me that “they’ve been good in the past.”

    • But “they have been good in the past” is the answer to why they are still on the team. In both cases we are talking about the recent past, such that they were expected to contribute this year. Not an unreasonable expectation. As such the team feels that they can rebound as well and they get a longer leash than one might expect. Replacing Barnes is not so urgent, in that he is a backup catcher. But he is also not so easy to replace, even with his limited role. Vesia has been sent down once already and may need to go down again.

    • Vesia’s career numbers remain very good, but he may have to be considered a reclamation project at this point. He’s still young enough to have an upside.

      Barnes is an enigma. He’s always been a decent backup catcher though never an offensive force, but this year both his offense and defense seem to have cratered.

      • I think for Vesia to be a reclamation project, that work would need to begin in the minors. Regarding Barnes, sometimes players lose it virtually overnight, e.g. Andruw Jones, who later became somewhat serviceable again, Tom Tresh, who was a starting and solid shortstop for the Yankees several seasons but was out of the MLB before he turned 31; Billy Grabarkewitz, an All-Star Game selection as a rookie with the Dodgers in 1970 but thanks to injuries and the emergence of other young Dodgers never played in a 100 games again, and Eric Davis, who never did for the Dodgers when he did for the Reds. Such is baseball; such is life.

        • Barnes could’ve been a serviceable starter on quite a few MLB teams, at one point. Andruw Jones lost it literally overweight, I think. I had the highest hopes for Eric Davis, but he proved so injury-prone.

  3. What started so promising has become so frustrating, but coulda been even worse.

  7. I think highly of Outman in the long run, but his batting fifth can make it easy to pitch around JD.

  8. JT having a huge night for Sawx v. Yanquis – on pace for 18 RBI and 30 total bases.

  9. Scoop has AF’s ear. He is bringing up AA guy to start this game! Emmet Sheehan. Will need to bump someone from the 40.

    • From the Sheehan story above

      the club has an open spot after it designated Adam Kolarek for assignment before Wednesdays’ game.

      • Kolarek’s career record with the Dodgers: 0.84 ERA in 32 innings and a 5-0 record.

    • As Mel Allen used to say, “How About That!” Friedman and I had a three-hour conversation after last night’s game. At this point, however, I am reluctant to share further details, but I did ask him if he regrets not resigning Seager or Trea Turner, why it took the 69th game of the season before the Dodgers even tried a sacrifice bunt, why a beer costs close to $20 at Dodger Stadium and why Dodger Dogs are no longer made by Farmer John — “Easternmost in quality, Westernmost in flavor.”

      • I agree he should have scored but the 3rd base coach held him up. It is on Mookie to keep his eye on the runner ahead of him.

  32. Dodgers sitting in the catbird’s seat now, to take a page from Red Barber.

  52. The camera caught two 6′ 5″ rookies, Miller and Sheehan alone at the end of the dugout talking together.

    • Emmet was flabbergasted by the catch, not to speak of the earlier one over the shoulder.

    • Yep. Says that this wasn’t valued in amateur ball by his coaches, so he was under the radar.

  106. Part of Blackout Weekend is that I won’t be able to watch Sheehan’s debut.