Braves at Phillies, 5:07 PM PDT, TV: TBS
RHP Spencer Strider pitches for the Braves and LHP Ranger Suárez goes for the Phillies. The Phillies lead the series 2-1.
MLB attempts to explain the Dodgers’ poor performances in the postseason.
- 1929 The A’s, trailing 8-0 during Game 4 of the World Series, erupt for ten runs in the seventh inning off three Cub pitchers en route to a 10-8 victory. Chicago’s Hack Wilson becomes one of the game’s goats when he loses two balls in the sun in center field.
- 1949 Vin Scully, working his first broadcast ever, does the play-by-play when Maryland defeats Boston University at Fenway Park, 14-13. The football assignment marks the start of a 67-year career in the broadcast booth for the Hall of Fame baseball announcer, who becomes the iconic voice of the Dodgers.
- 1986 The Angels, ahead 5-4 and one strike away from going to the World Series, see their lead vanish when Dave Henderson, who had Bobby Grich’s fly ball bounce over the fence off the heel of his glove, hits a two-run homer off Donnie Moore, putting the Red Sox ahead, 6-5. California will tie the Anaheim Stadium contest in the bottom of the frame, but Boston will prevail, scoring the deciding run in the 11th inning on a Henderson sac fly.
- 2003 Thirty-five years after creating controversy with his non-traditional rendition of the song, Jose Feliciano sings the Star-Spangled Banner at the Marlins’ NLCS game against the Cubs at Pro Player Stadium. The singer’s gospelized version of the national anthem sung before Game 5 of the 1968 World Series at Tiger Stadium caused such a flap that some radio stations stopped playing his records on the air.
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Give the Fillies credit. I’d rather they beat the Snakes next and then the Llaneros (who must beat the Trashtros).
Go Phillies. All the 100 win teams go down.
Spencer Strider doing his best Lance Lynn impression.
Watching without enthusiasm, as I work on details for my upcoming Patagona trip.
How exciting!
It just occurred to me; I’ve never flown north-south. Do you get the same jet lag going that way that you do going east-west? Given you may stay in the same time zone, is there any effect other than the usual fatigue from all those hours in the air?
The South American continent is quite a bit east of here – a four-hour time difference from Buenos Aires, and from Santiago – until Chile goes on daylight time. So jet lag is an issue, and it’s a ten-hour flight from LAX to SCL. I need a couple days to recover, at least. I’ll also be spending a week in the Falklands, but I’ll have adapted to the change by then.
I’d forgotten my geography. Of course SA is east. And a ten-hour flight is pretty awful.
As you approach Santiago, you might think the plane did a U-turn – the landscape is a mirror image of Southern California.