Dodgers at Braves, 4:35 PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FSSE
LHP Alex Wood (12-1, 2.38 ERA) won his last start after taking his first loss of the season (to the Braves, no less) in his previous one. He’ll face rookie LHP Sean Newcomb (1-5, 4.50 ERA).
Wood has had two poor starts in a row, giving up 13 runs in 11 2/3 innings. Newcomb has a 4.96 ERA in his last three starts and has walked three or more batters in five of his nine starts.
This date in Dodgers’ history:
- 1959 In the second All-Star game played this summer, Yogi Berra’s two-run home run off Dodgers right-hander Don Drysdale in the third inning at the LA Memorial Coliseum proves to be the difference in the American League’s 5-3 victory over the Senior Circuit. The home run will be the last one hit by a Bronx Bomber in a Mid-Summer Classic game for 41 years until Derek Jeter goes deep in 2001.
- 1995 Making his first start for the Rockies since being acquired from the Mets, Bret Saberhagen gives up 13 hits and walks three batters, but gets the win in the team’s 9-4 win over the Dodgers. The sellout crowd gives their new hurler an enthusiastic standing ovation when he departs the game with one out in the seventh inning.
- 1997 Jeromy Burnitz, coming off the bench in the Brewers’ 6-5 loss to Seattle at County Stadium, homers as a pinch hitter for the second consecutive time, tying an American League record. The major league mark for consecutive pinch-hit appearances with a home run is three, shared by Lee Lacy (Dodgers – May 2, 6, and 17, 1978) and Del Unser (Phillies – June 30, July 5 and 10, 1979).
- 2013 The first-place Dodgers set a franchise record, winning their 13th consecutive game on the road with their 3-0 victory over the Cubs in Chicago. The Giants established the National League mark in 1916 when the team won 17 straight games away from the Polo Grounds.
Lineup:
Tonight’s Dodger lineup at Braves:
Taylor LF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Forsythe 2B
Barnes C
Hernández CF
Puig RF
Wood P pic.twitter.com/9k4nKIRF3F— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 3, 2017
NPUT
Injury news. Kershaw soon to pitch off mound, Ethier to play simulated games this week and Gonzalez to OKC for rehab stretch this week. There’s also a video clip of Cingrani talking about joining the Dodgers.
Markakis family in the stands Tuesday evening.
I left when it was 3-1 and couldn’t check in until after a meeting . . . hoping that there WAS a bottom of the 9th inning and saw the 3 posted . . . but luckily more for LA.
Bullpen late innings hasn’t shone these last two games.
Here’s hoping for bottoms of the 9th in the next 6 games!
At least we didn’t have to use Jansen. Did he start to warm up as Cingrani was struggling?
Joe Davis mentioned him, but it wasn’t clear that he started to warm up.
Good win, with the Rockies and Diamondbacks are just shaking their heads and saying, “What do we have to do to gain ground on these guys?”
I remember that feeling earlier in the year.
And in years past. The worst was when the Dodgers won but lost ground because the other guys swept a doubleheader.
Woo-HOO!!!!
This is no way to introduce yourself, Tony.
I thought that was a DP when Rodríguez hit it.
Understatement!
Cingrani warming up in the pen for the bottom of the ninth.
Darvish is in the dugout saying “I hope these guys hit like this tomorrow.”
Wow… https://twitter.com/theaceofspaeder/status/892933296690262016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Foneflapdown77.com%2F2017%2F08%2F03%2Fsucks%2F
Another very solid outing by Wood.
Well, we managed some breathing room in that inning.
Markakis got his two-thousandth hit earlier. I heard it on the car radio and thought “how is it someone has 2000 hits and I’ve rarely if ever heard of him?”
Nine years in the AL, that’s how.
He’s a decent player, but far from a star.
Yeah, but 2,000 hits is no small feat.
Matty has 1,614.
Puig has 536. Utley has 1830. Turner has 683.
Oh, and Ethier has 1359 and A-Gon is nearing the 2,000 milestone at 1996.
I agree, he’s been a solid major leaguer, but not someone you’d build your team around.
Did most of his damage as an O from ages 22-27.
It’s that rare day when both the Rox and Snakes win, so the Dodgers can only maintain their lead.
Long delay…
Whether or not the Braves score this inning, I think we’re going to need several more runs tonight.
Need a s/o and then a DP. Pretty please?
A p/o and a DP did the trick.
Oh brother. Two walks and a dump single.
So now the ump gets picky about strikes.
At this point, I’d be inclined to give Forsythe a couple of days off and let Hernandez play some at second base. Or at least drop Logan in the batting order.
Or move him down in the order.
That’s more like it.
CT3!!!
THAT’s what we were talking about!
A Taylor-made lead.
CT!!!!
C’mon, guys. This is Sean Newcomb we’re facing, not Don Newcombe.
Puig against a pitcher who has already thrown 68 pitches in three innings and has wiggled out of trouble; I like the matchup.
Left one on in the first, two on in the second, three on in the third.
Well, that was disappointing.
Waste not, want not . . .
They did . . . hopefully they don’t.
Shoulda been a big inning, but the Dodgers are slumping the last several days.
Understandable if it was against the Nats or Cubs.
But the Braves???!!!
They didn’t hit well against the Gnats either, but their hitting was timely.
True.
The kind of timely absent these last two innings.
Ugh.
C’mon, guys! You can get one more out of this!
Lucky to get the one.
Forsythe’s favorite kind of at bat. Didn’t have to swing.
This time, it worked.
Forsythe continues to have trouble getting hits; in this instance, I was happy with the walk.
Sacks still loaded.
Weird strike zone.
We’ll take the walk-for-an-RBI. Tied game.
Then Belly gets seven strikes in a row. Go figure.
4th pitch to Justin was just a foot outside, previous 3 were 2 feet, so ump gave him s strike.
Cingrani activated, Stewart optioned.
Cingrani may be a project, but the Dodgers have the luxury of a large enough lead to take the chance.
No politics but…Willson Contreras of the Cubbies is wearing a protective arm sleeve decorated with the Venezuelan flag.
Ambiguous without more context. Is he pro-Maduro or pro-opposition?
He’s having quite a day.
I expect that a ballplayer coming from the country where Wilson Ramos was kidnapped is not pro-Maduro.
The 1995 Dodgers get 13 hits and three walks and still lose 9-4! Wow.
Power rankings – literally – of minor league affiliates…https://twitter.com/darenw/status/892845193262706688
Regarding the #1 and #2 teams, the first response is funny.
https://twitter.com/patrickshmatrik/status/892849628592316416
From a Gnatblog… http://c296118.r18.cf1.rackcdn.com/San-Francisco-Giants-Casket_1360276475.jpg
Wood’s last start was not poor – he pitched a full seven and won the game (thanks, of course, to Dodgers’ bottom-of-the-seventh rally). He allowed eight hits and walked nobody. Of course, you could argue that he was pitching against the Gnats.
Oops. I forgot that game. He did see his ERA rise, however, thanks to giving up four runs in those seven innings.
It wasn’t his best outing, but it was good enough.