Game 4, 2024

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Cardinals at Dodgers, 4:10 PM PDT, TV: Apple+

LHP Zack Thompson (0-0, 0.00 ERA) takes the mound for the Cardinals and RHP Bobby Miller (0-0, 0.00 ERA) does the same for the Dodgers.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1935 The reigning National League champion Cardinals release 44 year-old right-hander Dazzy Vance, who appeared in his first and only World Series during his one season with the team. The future Hall of Fame hurler will return to the Dodgers, where he spent the most productive years of his career, finishing his major league 16-year tenure in the major leagues with a 197-140 (.585) record along with an ERA of 3.24.
  • 2008 In an exhibition game celebrating the club’s 50th anniversary of their move west from Brooklyn, the Dodgers lose to the Red Sox in front of 115,300 fans at the LA Coliseum. The crowd is the largest ever to watch a baseball game, surpassing the previous record when approximately 114,000 patrons attended an exhibition contest between the Australian national team and an American services team during the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
  • 2017 The Dodgers commemorate Kirk Gibson’s historic pinch-hit, walk-off home run in Game 1 of the 1988 World Series by offering a special ticket package to sit in the right-field pavilion seat, recently painted blue and autographed by him, where the ball landed. The team is donating two-thirds of the $300 price of the ducats, which includes a companion seat, two commemorative T-shirts and food and drink, to the Kirk Gibson Foundation to raise money and awareness for Parkinson’s research, the neurological disease which affects the Fall Classic hero.

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93 thoughts on “Game 4, 2024”

  3. Mookie tied for Dodger record for RBI (9) thru first four games with Furillo, Wynn and Puig. The Reading Rifle, The Toy Cannon and The Wild Horse.

    • I dunno if that game’s gonna be on TV, as yesterday’s was, but Cheney Stadium was always a great ballpark. Weather permitting, you could watch games for free from “Tightwad Hill,” which rose behind the right field fence. The park was named for Ben Cheney, a local lumberman who for decades had sponsored a semi-pro team known as the “Cheney Studs.”

  5. Good win with Ohtani and Freeman going 0 for 8. And Kike and Taylor doing nothing.

    • Indeed. Makes perfect sense. Not like leaving a pitcher in that has given up 2 home runs so he can give up 4.

  26. Very solid outing by Miller. High pitch count – but that comes with 11k through 6.

  40. I am not a fan of strike outs. Wasted AB’s in my opinion. If the Dodgers SO below 20% of the time, I would be happy.

    • Not something to cheer for, unless your guy is pitching, but hard to avoid as a batter, if you are hunting hard contact.

    • Braves are very good at avoiding Ks and hitting with authority. Pads as well. Dodgers were middle of the pack K-wise, but second in batting last year.

  42. This is where it gets interesting for me. Anxious to see what the middle and bottom of the order can do.

  43. I’m listening to the LA Dodgers, but watching the OKC Dodgers play the Tacoma Rainiers at Cheney Stadium (where one season I attended 39 of 77 Tacoma Giants home games).

  52. I’ll be under the table again at dinner tonight, from watching not drinking. Still at the beach in Mexico for a while (but home in time to see the Dodgers at Nationals Stadium). La Niña has arrived. Last three days a bit of a chill in the air with the wind coming off the water.

  54. Game 4–just seems wrong until I remember the two games played a few months ago against SD in South Korea.

  55. Mutts get one-hit in their season opener against the Keggers. Fillies pen has total meltdown v. Barves.