Game 120, 2023

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Brewers at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports WI, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA

RHP Corbin Burnes (9-6, 3.60 ERA) takes the hill for the Brewers. He’ll face the Dodgers’ RHP Lance Lynn (9-9, 5.88 ERA).

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1992 Kevin Gross, retiring 22 of the final 23 batters he faces on his wife’s birthday, no-hits the Giants at Dodger Stadium, 2-0. The LA right-hander’s no-no averts the team from being swept in a four-game series at home against the Giants for the first time in 69 years.
  • 2013 Clayton Kershaw blanks the Phillies at Citizens Bank Park, 5-0, giving the Dodgers their first double-digit winning streak since 2006. The team’s 42 victories in their last fifty games, including a 25-3 mark since the All-Star break, equals the 1941 Yankees and 1942 Cardinals for the best record for that span of games since 1900.

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67 thoughts on “Game 120, 2023”

  3. On the final day of the 1993 season, a year-plus after his no-no, Kevin Gross and the Dodgers swatted the Gnats 12-1 to eliminate them from the NL West race. SF finished one game behind the Barves.

  21. Time to score. Brewers playing more like division leaders. Saw them when they visited DC and thought they didn’t seem like a playoff team, but then again everyone makes the playoffs.

  29. Will be tuning in a bit late again. These games are so fast I can barely catch the top of the ninth!

  31. Tonight’s a matchup between two big game pitchers – Burnes is 6’3″, 246 lbs, while Lynn is 6’5″, 270 lbs. So far the matchups have favored the Dodgers.

  32. I have been taping the Dodgers-Brewers games this week — and I will tonight — and watching them late. But regarding Milwaukee’s Wade Miley, who pitched last night, I want to bring up the incredible success that former Dodger Scott Van Slyke (2012-2017) had vs. him. In 21 plate appearances in his career vs. Miley, SVS had eight hits, all for extra bases — five homers and three doubles — and three walks and a slash of .444/.524/1.444/1.968, six RBIs and only one K. For his career, SVS, son of Andy, had a slash of .242/.326/.417/.741. SVS never played for another MLB team besides the Dodgers.

    • A favorite matchup for me was Frank Howard versus Bob Hendley. In 47 PA 8 dingers and .366/.467/1.024

      • Although obtaining Claude Osteen for Frank Howard in a huge trade with Washington after the disappointing 1964 season helped the Dodgers win pennants in 1965 and 1966, and the World Series in 1965, I missed Howard’s presence on those teams and was a huge fan. In my first year as a sportswriter, in 1972, I covered the A’s-Tigers AL playoff. Howard, with Detroit, was in his next-to-last MLB season, and he didn’t make an appearance in any of the five playoff games. After the second game in Oakland — the A’s had won both and won the series in five games— I saw Howard packing up his duffle bag. Like a kid, I told him that I had been a
        big fan of his while I was growing up. He barely responded, if at all, without looking up. I soon realized that was a dumb thing for me to say. Howard turned 87 last week and is one of the few members of the 1963 Dodgers World Series championship team still alive.

        • I too missed Big Frank, but the Dodgers sure got results out of Osteen. For the record, they won the Series in ’65 but lost in ’66.

          • Using BR WAR, its a wash in that both provided their new team with around WAR 26. Frank’s tremendous seasons with the bat (OPS+153) were dinted by his poor fielding in the pre-DH era.

          • He had a great throwing arm, though, and I’ll never forget his loge homer off Whitey Ford.