Dodgers at Mets, 4:15 PM PDT, TV: Fox
RHP Tony Gonsolin (5-3, 3.86 ERA) pitches for the Dodgers and RHP Kodai Senga (7-5, 3.31 ERA) pitches for the Mets.
- 1960 Home plate umpire Frank Dascoli stops play for 24 minutes when Willie McCovey hits a pitch into shallow left field that no one can see because of the dense fog. The Giants first baseman’s second inning “invisible triple” doesn’t deter the Dodgers when they go on to win the Candlestick Park contest, 5-3.
- 2003 At the All-Star Game played in Chicago’s U.S. Cellular Field, Angels outfielder Garret Anderson goes 3-for-4, including a two-run homer and a double, helping the American League to beat the NL, 7-6. Pinch-hitting in the eighth inning, Rangers third baseman Hank Blalock hits a go-ahead two-run homer off the usually untouchable reliever of the Dodgers, Eric Gagne.
- 2004 Eric Gagne surpasses Jeff Shaw for the most career saves in franchise history, collecting his 130th save in a Dodger uniform. The 28 year-old right-handed closer pitches a perfect ninth, striking out the side, in the team’s 5-2 victory over Arizona at Bank One Ballpark.
- 2017 Cody Bellinger becomes the first Dodger rookie to hit for the cycle when he collects a seventh-inning triple in the team’s 7-1 victory over the Marlins in Miami. The 22-year old freshman goes 4-for-5, driving in three runs en route to his historic accomplishment.
Also: in 1939 National League president Ford Frick orders two-foot screens affixed inside all foul poles after Billy Jurges of the Giants and umpire George Magerkurth spit at each other after a foul ball call down the left field line is disputed at the Polo Grounds. The American League will soon follow the Senior Circuit lead and will also install foul ball screens.
And: in 1994 after being confiscated in the first inning of the Indians-White Sox contest at Comiskey Park, Albert Belle’s bat, suspected of being corked, is placed in umpire Dave Phillips’ locker for further examination. The attempt to take and replace the suspected bat by a bungling burglar, who gains access to the umpire’s room by squirming through the stadium’s overhead crawl space, a thievery Jason Grimsley will confess to five-years later, is immediately uncovered with the discovery of pieces of broken ceiling tile on the floor, and a new name on the “clean” bat which now reads Paul Sorrento.
Lineups when available.
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NPUT
Yippee!
May get rained out tomorrow, acc. to forecast. We’ll see.
Oh Max (theirs, not ours). Oops, I thought that was Max Beaty, not Brett Baty. Never mind the Oh Max.
Mutts have to challenge, but it’s wasted, I think.
Not exactly a Gold Glover there.
A gift. Hope Freddie can cash it in.
Vamos chicos.
Woo-HOO!!! Well done,, everybody!
Evivva, de novo!
Some years ago, in a slow pitch league in Berkeley’s San Pablo Park, a fog settled in so thick that I, playing right field, was barely onto the grass so that I could see the batter.
On another topic, Cody had another slam, a single and walk today, and is now hitting .305 with an .895 OPS.
Both Pads and Snakes have lost today, gnow it’s the Gnats’ turn.
I have always doubted that a change of scenery made all that much difference to a baseball player, but Bellinger is proving me wrong.
Probably a full physical recovery as well.
Yep. I think that is a big part of his resurgence.
RBI can wake up happy.. Woo-Hoo!!
Yay!! Win Streak!!
Bring on Hatcher!
Chris or Mickey?
Wow, the Mutts made a routine play on a fly ball!
When will JD learn..
Flashback to 1962!
Pile it one guys.
What the…I’ll take it.
A Mets Muff.
Ok Max.
Dale, ¡Máximo!
Freddie having a rough night.
Let’s add on some runs.
https://twitter.com/ericstephen/status/1680402789267292162?s=20
Fillies trample the Pads, twice.
What a recovery!
Holy cow, Fergie! Nicely done!
Living on the edge!
Livin’ on a prayer.
https://youtu.be/lDK9QqIzhwk
Whew. Way to go Fergie…
Bucs blew one to the Gnats.
C’mon Fergie. RBI wants to wake up to a win.
Hold On. Just a little bit tighter now, baby.
Up to Rojo.
Make a name for yourself Marisnick.
Good job Peralta!
I love the hit-and-run!
When we do it. Otherwise I like the strike ‘em out throw’em out.
Run and hit!
Runs please.
Good grief Graterol.
Brewster got it done!
Rats!!
Phillies whipping Puds, 6-2 in the 7th. Yay.
Wow. Tony out of the game after 54 pitches.
Being hard hit, but balls finding leather.
Gonsolin has trended to run out of gas around 6 innings and the Mets hit three hard hit balls in the fifth. That might be a reason he was lifted.
Well that sucked.
Gonsolin has been much more efficient than Senga (who’s been really good, however).
Ok Max, do your thing.
Well, not that thing, but OK.
Senga, 81 pitches. Let’s get him out of this game.
We’ve got the K Dodgers tonight. Sigh.
Corre por favor
Hang in there Cat Man.
¡Miércoles!
¡Mierda!
I wish the Dodgers would give Feduccia a look.
Willy is in a little bit of a funk right now.
Mook!
It just kept carrying…
DP. Woot.
Vamos Chicos!!
Please good Cat Man tonight.
And away we go..
It appears that I get to see the Braves play the Pale Hose rather than Dodgers-Mets. Guess I’ll be audio only.
No MLBTV?
No. But now Fox has gone to Citi Field, so it was the rain delay that gave me the Sox-Braves, not scheduling.