Game 98, 2023

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Dodgers at Rangers, 11:35 AM PDT, TV: BSSW, SPNLA

RHP Emmet Sheehan (3-0, 4.91 ERA) pitches for the Dodgers against the Rangers’ LHP Martín Pérez (7-3, 4.84 ERA).

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1939 Using yellow dyed balls, the Cardinals beat the Dodgers 5-2 at Sportsman’s Park. The experimenting with the use of the colored sphere, which is designed to make the ball easier to see for the players and the fans, started in Brooklyn last week and will be tested once more, in a September game played at Wrigley Field.
  • 1962 Jackie Robinson becomes the first black player inducted into the Hall of Fame. Joining the Dodger infielder in the Cooperstown ceremony are fireballer Bob Feller, veteran manager Bill McKechnie, and outfielder Edd Roush.

  • 1965 Dick Stuart homers in the first inning in the Phillies’ 5-1 win over New York at Shea Stadium. ‘Dr. Strangeglove’, who played in Boston for the previous two seasons, becomes the first player to have gone deep in each of the 19 major league ballparks now in use. (Ed. note – Nineteen ballparks because both Los Angeles teams, the Angels and Dodgers, share the ballpark in Chavez Ravine. – LP)
  • 1974 At Three Rivers Stadium, Dodger first baseman Steve Garvey, a write-in All-Star starter, singles and doubles to help the National League beat the Junior circuit, 7-2. Mike Schmidt, also a write-in, plays in his first Midsummer Classic thanks to radio intern Howard Eskin’s on-air campaign which urged Phillies fans to stuff the ballot box for their young third baseman.

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72 thoughts on “Game 98, 2023”

  3. Gnats swept by Nats, who outscored them 21-5 in three games. Reds lead Snakes 5-3 in eighth, San Diego paddled by Tigres.

  4. Yesterday was almost a perfect day – less than perfect because we got stuck in traffic on the Richmond-San Rafael bridge and arrived late at Rancho Nicasio. We missed the opening act, but friends had saved good seats for us to see Asleep at the Wheel.

    The traffic problem had its upside, though – I was able to follow the entire Dodgers game on Gameday, and also the Snakes’ loss to the Reds, before losing the signal in West Marin. Later, when we returned the Bay, I learned that the Nats had again swatted the Gnats and clubbed the loathsome Dehydrochlormethyltestosterone Boy. Then, to make things even better, the A’s came from behind to bang the Trashtros.

    May today be an instant replay!

  6. This game was a letdown, but at least everybody else in the division flopped today.

  11. I have been playing catch up watching the taped game. I saw the score at the end of 2 before I started watching and assumed Sheehan was really bad today. After watching his first two innings I thought he did a lot better than the score indicted.

    It hurts when a hitter foul tips a pitch instead of popping it up and then winds up walking. Between getting pinched and those hitters failures to get a bigger piece of the ball, Sheehan struggled.

    Also, I had to yell OMG when I thought Deluca made another diving web gem catch. So close.

    Ok, big 9th inning coming up.

  13. Don’t know why but this game reminded me of the Dodgers losing at home to the Nationals back in 2009. The Dodgers had won their first 13 home games that year and were going for number 14. (Don’t recall if that was going to be a Dodger record or not.)

    Anyway, the Dodgers went up 6-0 in the first with the big blast being a Matt Kemp Grand Slam (the GS is probably what made me think of it today). Leading 6-1 after 6, the Dodgers gave up 3 in the 7th, 6 in the 8th and ended up losing 11-9.

  15. Cody had another three-run dinger for the Cachorros today. He’s now hitting .320 with a .922 OPS.

  20. Except for the 4 walks, 7 hits and 7 runs that was a good 3 innings from Emmet.

  29. Snakes have tied up Reds 3-3 in the sixth, but Nats continue to swat Gnats – 6-0 in the fifth.

  31. Not exactly a shut down inning. Deluca almost caught all three outs – but not quite.

  37. Trailing 3-0 in the fourth, the Gnats get runmers to second and third with nobody out. Then the Nats’ Gore fans the next two and gets the third on a fly out.

  38. Link: Thanks for the link to Jackie Robinson’s Hall of Fame acceptance speech. He is very modest and very appreciative. It is ironic that Robinson and Bob Feller entered the Hall of Fame the same year. Here are two reasons that I feel that way:
    This is from a 2022 article on the Society for American Baseball Research site:
    “‘ ‘Do you feel they’ll make the big-league grade?’ This question (referring to Black ballplayers) was posed to Bob Feller in October 1946. As reported in The Sporting News on October 30, 1946, Feller said without hesitation, ‘I have seen none who combine the qualities of a big-league ballplayer – not even Jackie Robinson.’ ”
    This is a 2011 article from the San Gabriel Valley (CA) Tribune:
    https://www.sgvtribune.com/2011/01/03/then-and-now-feller-just-couldnt-let-feud-with-robinson-go-away/

    • Well, measuring by HoF inductions, Feller was proven wrong about three dozen times in his lifetime, wasn’t he? He died in 2010. Campanella and Paige, Clemente and Irvin, Cool Papa Bell and Judy Johnson, Ernie Banks, Oscar Charleston, Martin Dihigo and Pop Lloyd, Willie Mays, Bob Gibson and Hank Aaron and Frank Robinson, Juan Marichal, Luis Aparicio, Willie McCovey, Lou Brock, Billy Williams and Roy Dandridge, Willie Stargell all made it in by 1989.