On this day in baseball history Sandy Koufax takes Yom Kippur off, Willie Davis makes three errors in the fifth inning of Game Two of the World Series, Jim Palmer beats Sandy Koufax in the same game, Phil Niekro wins his 300th game, and Lenny Harris surpasses Manny Mota’s career pinch-hit record.
The early game is Braves at Cardinals, 1:10 PM PDT, TV: TBS
The Braves send rookie RHP Mike Soroka to the Busch Stadium mound to face the Cardinals’ veteran RHP Adam Wainwright. Soroka has been sensational on the road; he’s made 16 starts away from home and given up no more than three runs in any of them and no more than two in fourteen. That computes to a road ERA of 1.55. Wainwright will be making his 25th career postseason appearance — his 13th start — and a 3.03 career ERA in those games. He’s been even better at Busch, where he’s got a 1.72 ERA.
Braves lineup:
Game 3. Let’s get another W.#RELENTLESS pic.twitter.com/8mWix69wK8
— Atlanta Braves (@Braves) October 6, 2019
Cardinals lineup:
Playoff baseball at Busch! 🙌#NLDS | #TimeToFly pic.twitter.com/1oXIWU3NWW
— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) October 6, 2019
The second game is Dodgers at Nationals, 4:45 PM PDT, TV: TBS
The Dodgers send LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu to the mound to face the Nationals’ RHP Aníbal Sánchez. Ryu’s been dominant at home and a little less so on the road, but as the MLB Game Preview author says, when you lead the major leagues in ERA you pitch well everywhere. Sánchez is substituting for Max Scherzer, who’d originally been penciled in for this start until he struck out the side in the 8th inning in Game Two.
The Dodgers and their families arrived at National Airport yesterday evening. Look at all the daddies holding their children’s hands going down the stairs.
Touched down in D.C. pic.twitter.com/9FBGI8XQvT
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) October 6, 2019
Dodgers lineup:
Today’s Gm. 3 Dodger lineup at Nationals:
Pederson RF
Muncy 1B
Turner 3B
Bellinger CF
Seager SS
Pollock LF
Lux 2B
Martin C
Ryu P#NLDS | @CocaCola pic.twitter.com/kzKeAuekxl— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) October 6, 2019
Nationals lineup:
Geame 3.
During Trea Turner’s 15-game hitting streak:
.343 BA
6 HRs
8 2Bs
11 RBIs
15 Rs
3 SBs#BeatLA // #STAYINTHEFIGHT pic.twitter.com/naTKV2ds21— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) October 6, 2019
NPsUT:
ALDS: 0600 HST, 0900 PDT, 1200 EDT
NLDS: 0800 HST, 1100 PDT, 1400 EDT
Catch it Bob!
This has not been a good series thus far for Kendrick, an old friend and a nice guy. Let’s keep it that way. He graciously answered the media’s questions after his problems in Game One. Just like Kevin Brown would not have. I was a sportswriter for a few years and once in a while I would fill in for the beat reporter and cover a Giants or Warriors game. Jack Clark, Jeff Leonard and Frank Robinson were difficult after one game I covered during a very bad Giants season. Robinson had his feet on his desk and answered nearly all my questions with “Yup” or “Nope.” Such responses don’t make a reporter’s job easy. Duane Kuiper and Bob Brenley were quite pleasant. I remember Kuiper sitting on the stool in front of his locker smoking.
Clark was a notorious jerk.
Bob Brenley did color for the Cubs for a few years. I enjoyed listening to him.
When he played 3B for the Gnats, he was legendary for making four errors in one inning, but he then got the walkoff hit.
Talk about being a goat/GOAT (for one night).
Caw we please throw strikes?!
LOOGY just got up, so guess he pitches to Soto, then Maeda.
Leaves Julio feeling confident.
Also PH opportunity
LA Times’ Dylan Hernandez .
https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-nlds-game-3-with-7-run-inning
https://www.mlb.com/news/dodgers-win-nlds-game-3-with-7-run-inning
In the end, got out of it pretty cheaply. Thanks, Howie!
0-10 with 8Ks in the series is AJ.
AJ Ellis could have done that
Nats so lucky that ball didn’t get farther away.
Season high Ks for Sánchez. 38 times for the Blue so far.
At least Ryu worked him for a full count.
In the 1952 World Series Gil Hodges went 0-for-21 but struck out only six times (with five walks). There is a great book by Thomas Oliphant about that and baseball: “Praying for Gil Hodges.” The Dodgers led in the Series three games to two and returned to Brooklyn, only to lose the last two at Ebbets Field to the hated Yankees.
Cards may have lost due to a bad HP ump call. Hope we don’t for the same reason…
No replay?
Can Kelly be “injured” and we bring Gonsolin in?
Perfect change up, Ryu.
Uh Link? Do we really have well over 600 comments tonight?!!
Not that I checked or anything but I think that is about 150 more comments that True Blue LA for tonight’s game!
Yes we do. Probably a record for the blog.
Let the old guys play!
Eating apple pie a la mode.
Game tomorrow begins at 3:40 p.m. West Coast time.
No mercy for my stomach.
I’ll have to try and work out what time that means for me. I believe we are game 3 out of the 4 games on?
I think it might be 9.40 am for me( we have just changed to daylight savings here)
Uggh I work tomorrow night. I will miss some of the (hopeful) fun.
What an exhausting game! I am not sure I can start tomorrow on short rest.
Ha!
I am with you on that HLKLA.
I can’t. But I must.
The magic number is now… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/6bd1a52cdd65d0a365dd577e43197fde61e8430a6d2d944923645b910cf69314.png
To quote a tennis term, games are now back on serve
Let’s break them tomorrow.
Indeed
Melancon gets the lucky called strike three on an outside ball.
Gnatfans called him “Melanoma.”
Hahaha.
Lots of players participated in this win.
I mean, Woo-HOO ! !
We win!
Woo-HOO!!!!!
Woah easy on the exclamation marks there RBI. LOL
I know. I forgot myself.
Dodgers win!!
Our 15 Ks won’t be the dominant theme in game stories.
I’ll take 15 k – with 14 hits almost any game.
A nice balance.
The two-strike hitting with men on base should be.
Absolutely.
Swinging k. On a very high and wide pitch.
Good start
One!
One K.
When is the last time Kenley worked?
With so many of Washington’s fans behind home plate having departed — abandoning the real expensive seats — it’s nice to see a virtual wall of blue with the camera shot from behind the pitcher.
Buckle up! Here we go!
They have a 6 run lead.
I wonder how many of the Nat fans there tonight kinda wish it had been Scherzer pitching instead?
Although obviously Sánchez gave LA all/more than they could handle.
Nats need to win two games and have Max and Strasburg lined up to pitch them.
Is what disappointed Nats fans are consoling themselves with tonight. (Although – that’s a fairly large consolation.)
True, but they won’t have the bullpen flexibility they did in previous games.
They have Doolittle and Hudson, which is all they had to begin with.
We can hope to see more of Rodney, perhaps. Corbin could probably relieve in a game five, but would they want to try it again?
Kenley in the 9th in a (relatively) stress-free situation to get some of his confidence back?
He’s in the situation of needing some work.
It’s like I wore a target on my shirt.
Hit it here.
But like Pollock, no contact
I doubt we see Pollock in the lineup tomorrow.
Maybe
Oh, boy.. Braves up 3-1 in the ninth. I feel for Wainwright and his 120 pitch arm.
Wainwright, you mean.
Right. Silly.
Well, the Budweisers did once have a Chris Carpenter.
Mind fart on my part.
Double figures in runs!
Martin!!!!!! What a game!
10-4 good buddy!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/d39fcf635c815d1933004e779614b327143c61a7470ac68a843c4b7491d59d5e.png
A heckuva series.
Try this, then… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_wLVCLPx0M
Strickland delivers!
That was one ft over my head!
Why didn’t you catch it?
You’re like a guy at the front with bullets flying around everywhere.
Are you wearing a blue shirt?
Beat LA chants from an emptying stadium when down by 4?
Doesn’t bother me at all.
Neither does the let’s go Dodgers chants!
Strickland should be good for at least one homer.
Or two let’s hope.
I watched Strickland in many games when he was with the Giants. A once good career deteriorated.
He’s also a head case.
Yep
You made the call!
https://twitter.com/MLBStats/status/1181033354965196800?s=20
Nice 1,2,3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE1J-n33Aw0
A great song from 1965, my freshman year in college. You already know about how old I am.
Also my freshman year. I graduated on time, despite transferring twice.
Mine too
Adam brings the caloric.
Nice!
Kolarek gets his man!
I like the hitting Dodgers better than the swing and miss Dodgers by far!
I watch when the Dodgers bat. I generally follow the game on Yahoo when Washington bats. It helps keep me calm(er).
For awhile I was tempted to start breathing into a paper bag.
I assume Kolarek ready with Soto up
I can verify.
Kolarek has been money against left-handlers.
Could have rolled to the wall.
The 2019 Dodgers remind me of the Celtics teams of the West/Baylor era. Those Lakers would be so competitive and then the Celtics would go on a 2 minute 19 to 4 run and that would be the ballgame.
Good analogy. Wow, did I suffer all those years with the Lakers. They never had a center who could match up even in the slightest with Bill Russell. ..Ray Felix, Gene Wiley, Leroy Ellis, Jim Krebs? I don’t think so.
Forgot Krebs.
Darrall Imhoff is another.
Forgot Imhoff.
We dodge a bullet!
A 10-pitch inning. I think we should bring him out for another inning. He’s gotten six outs on 15 pitches.
Probably Báez. Might wanna use Julito again tomorrow.
To face Soto at least.
Kenta up.
Need to be careful with Rendon.
Got him!
Huge out.
Ideally, he won’t get up again.
I was nervous when Urias started jumping
You and Julio
Great to see Parra make the first out!
One down, eight to go
500 comments on GAME THREE of the NLDS! What happens if we get to Game Seven of the World Series?
We needed at least one run there.
I’m still mad at Kelly (and Doc). We should have kept them out of this game after the 7 run inning. Now they are back in it.
4 runs behind is not back in it.
Rats!
I really hope that wasn’t a big out.
That could have been ball 4 (maybe)
My son thought so.
I don’t blame him swinging at it though
It was a high strike.
Drat. I’d have liked a couple more runs right there.
This 3-2 pitch could go anywhere
Nervous again
Me too strangely enough.
Yup.
Rather be nervous ahead than nervous behind.
Truth.
Excellent point.
Loaded again.
Will it end like the first or the sixth?
Vamos, ¡Quique!
Come on, Kiké!
Let’s go Kiké.
Now just a single
It’s a wild one tonight. Wild pitch.
Can the Dodgers get to double digit runs tonight?
Good patience, Martin.
Regarding Freeze’ hit and as my dad would occasionally say– and I say this to the Nat fans and apologize in advance to those here–Doesn’t that just frost your balls?
Ha!
Freese! Thank you my msn!
Ok. That one was 50 ft from me.
They certainly know where you live.
How do we identify you?
Yeah. Are you wearing Dodger blue?
Wearing my grey “Donuts” written in the Dodger logo style. Tomorrow my Dodger jersey using coloring from the Mexican flag.
Red White and Green?
You brought us luck!
Pollock must be feeling both happy and disappointed right now.
Rodney is usually a gas can, so maybe he can rebuild the lead.
Knock one down by the school yard Julio
Rodney in. Let’s see if the hits can continue. Get one back.
Without JT’s HR – this would be back to a white knuckler.
Julio!
She’s back!!
Had to peek on GameDay. I’m boycotting TBS because they put a Pence Trump Ad. on. Unconscionable.
Saw that. No excuse for that during a ball game.
Rule 5 violation (but that’s OK with me).
Gave back 2. Great job by Urias.
Come back, RBI!
Considering how many baserunners there were, only two runs can be viewed as a success.
Yes. Could have been much much worse.
Helpful.
Need to try and hold them to one or two runs here.
Done.
Glad it was one!
At times like this I really question Doc’s thinking. Should have pulled Kelly after first two got on.
Not his style to panic even though it didn’t work out.
I disagree in this case. Kelly had no control.
Good as time as any to see if he could regain it.
In the end I guess I agree. If it was a 3-2 or 5-2 game, I have to believe he gets pulled sooner.
Sure, maybe.
Regular season, yes. Must win post season game? No.
If this turns into Game 5 2017 WS, I will melt down.
Don’t feel alone.
Had to pull a veteran and bring in basically a rookie with the bases loaded.
Hot take?
Yes, with butter and syrup.
Butter and syrup? Hot take or Hot Cakes?
On a tin roof.
Okay I can’t watch for a little while. Bye.
And still no outs, too. Urias has his work cut out for him.
Dodgers getting Dodgered right now.
Are you kidding me right now? Kelly?!?!?!
Has Roberts lost his mind?
Good grief. Why did we sign this guy again?
He was a package deal with Pollock?
Now!
Good grief!
Julio just started throwing
Get the arms going in the pen.
I could warm up if you like.
Are you a lefty?
They serve strong stuff there?
TP
No one up in the pen
You have to be kidding me. What is Doc thinking?
Time to do so!
Pull him NOW!
Oh, man. Bases juiced, no outs? This is NOT GOOD.
Anyone else warming up?
Anybody warming up in the pen, Bob?
Did anybody else notice Joc being the biggest cheerleader after Kike’s hit? That’s one of the things I like about him. He gets taken out with the bases loaded and instead of sulking he leads the cheer.
I missed it. But nice to know.
Old Joe!
Pull him now, Doc.
Agree. Doesn’t have it.
He better find it quick.
Pull. Him.
Come on, Kelly. Throw strikes.
Let’s go Joe.
Shut. Them. Down.
Hold em here, Joe. No more free passes.
And we were worried
Oh no! A lead off walk.
Hats off to Freese and Martin. Getting it done.
Freese didn’t surprise me somehow. But Martin came up really huge.
Apparently, you have no faith in Canadians (or perhaps just Quebecois?).
I favour our Canadian friends.
But does Dave?
What an inning!
At least he made contact.
Good inning.
Hahaha.
Ya think!?
It got Bob’s phone out of his pocket.
Haha!
Your turn. Corey. You can do it.
Cody’s back!
AJ. I don’t mind if you K here.
Oops. Forgot about Seager.
Bellinger!
Maybe Cody is untracked!
JT!!!
That landed 2 ft to my left!
Bob!
Did you get it?
Shoulda caught it!
Hit right in front of the retaining fence and fell into the bullpen.
You shoulda dove for it!
Smile, you are on TV
JT!
I just told my wife (of 39 years) that I will pass on dinner for the time being. She understands.
If you were a newlywed you might not get away with it.
So true.
The first game that I ever took her to was in 1978, two years before we got married. Before the game there was an old-timers game at Candlestick featuring the players who played in the first Giants-Dodgers game at the start of the 1958 season. I was enthralled. There they all were on the field, virtually everyone I wanted to see! She was reading “Passages” by Gail Sheehy during the game.
She is a wonderful woman.
Yes, she most certainly is! And I am a most fortunate man.
I carried my dinner into my office to watch.
TV trays?
Oh me of little faith…
Pollock striking out seemed so long ago
Watch and learn, A.J.
The bats are alive
With the sound of music.
Especially liked the percussion section
Tympani drums.
My soster played them in junior high school
Worry and stress, who needs it?
Well, Martínez’s bullpen strategy has backfired.
You can’t keep milking the same cows all the time.
He didn’t dance with them what brung him.
Yeah, now we just have to worry about OUR bullpen.
Not quite yet I hope. I’d take one more hit this inning.
Joe is warm
Woohoo!
Wow!
Both doubles about 15 ft from my seats!
Good job Bob!!
Thanks!
Glad you didn’t reach over and grab one of them
Oh my!!!
Yes!!!!
Kiké! Kiké! Kikè!
So much for Corbin for three innings
I’d be fine if he stayed in.
Taylor, we have been waiting for you
Time to deliver
He is like a cat on a hot tin roof.
Sorry. Wrong Taylor.
There. There is the 2 out RBI’s they have been all about.
Glad that was NOT a ground rule double.
Dear me. Ernie Johnson is awful at baseball.
Oh Canada
Martin!!!!
Coltrane!
Martin!!!!
Just a little hit. Please 106 win Dodger team?!
Slider slider slider slider…..
Hot dog.
Martin. Big at bat.
It was indeed
Was that so hard? Contact.
Freese!
If it bounced 3 times before crossing the plate, he still would have swung at it
Taylor needs to be piaying left instead of AJ.
Anyone.
Freese. Please.
Please. No more AJ AB’s.
What is Doc thinking?
“Blackmail is a lousy business”
Three games now, he’s been a black hole.
AJ. Win some friends back here.
Pollock’s up
Pollock’s down
He has to go. Has to.
Dave Roberts looks older than he did at the start of the series.
So do I.
I think we all do
Okay, Corey, let Cody be your example.
Don’t strike out. Don’t strike out. Don’t…
A HR would put a kink in Nat strategy
I’ll take a hit.
Don’t strike out. Don’t strike out. Don’t strike out.
Yes!
OK, Cody, I have put my 65 seasons of rooting for the Dodgers on the line.
Dangerous
You’re two up on me.
I’m only at 45 years.
Cody’s single started things off!
Did you know that the Astros did not issue a single intentional walk this year? Not one. A.J. Hinch doesn’t believe in them.
There’s a record that won’t be broken.
Ha!
Phew.
I don’t mind that intentional walk.
Me neither.
Intentional walks always feel risky.
Ask the cardinals re McCann today
Yeah. I want to be wrong about my critique of this move.
Muncy almost got it done.
What’s the Dodgers slogan for this postseason? Do they have one?
Tease then stomp
TTS! Love it.
Wing and a prayer. WAAP.
Ha!
Lux just missed it.
Max-a-million.
Hold them here, Ryu.
Corbin in next? May he be tired and ineffective…
As you said to Scoop – From your mouth…
It’s something. I guess.
One man band so far.
2 if you count JT.
True.
(And Ryu…)
Breathe everyone, breathe. Game on!
Jessica Mendoza (on the radio) says Sánchez is a different pitcher tonight than he was during the regular season.
Can someone quickly find regular season Sánchez and bring him into the game?
We had a habit of making a lot pitchers look good.
One run game
Max mash!
Yes! Max!!!!
Not an auspicious start to the third time through the lineup
But wait….
Let’s just go back to back here and tie it up.
Half way there!
One
Ridiculous at bats. We don’t deserve this game if this keeps up.
Watching this game I feel like I am entering my dotage.
Dodgeage..
Touché!
Yes.
Ok boys! Let’s go now!!
If Ryu gets out of this mess does he still bat next inning?
Who hits better that is available?
He only has 55 pitches right now
Anything you can do to help this mess Bob?
We need a DP. Badly.
TP.
Now DP?
Yes
Bloop. After bloop.
In 1966 in four games the Dodgers struck out 28 times.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/1966_WS.shtml
In three games in 2019 they’ve struck out 29 times.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2019_NLDS1.shtml
Bunt again. I dare you.
I KNOW Bellinger is going to come through tonight; I just KNOW it.
From your mouth, Scoop, from your mouth.
Bloops instead.
Corbin in the pen already.
Their strategy of bringing in starters on short notice for short stretches will catch up with them.
Maybe so, but not in time for us.
Hopefully it is this series and not the next
You know what they say about baseball in the playoffs:
Grim and bear it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-fkSYDtUY
What happened to the team’s improved hitting and scoring runs with 2 outs? I thought that was the thing they were supposed to be more successful at this year??
Martin swung at ball four.
Of course he did.
Doc. Take A J out.
Sadly, he is almost due for an injury.
I’m missing Puig about now
Hey John, what’s happening down under?
Hi, hanging out washing while checking my phone on a beautiful 23 Celsius day. It’s just after noon here
Sadly? (I know that was mean-spirited on my part.)
8 Ks for this guy thru four innings. The other night it was 17 Ks in nine innings. What is going on here?
Bad baseball, that’s what. We need to remember our game. Flailing right now.
Un – fricking – believable.
Shades of last year.
But at least that was in the WS!
Who was it last year that was driving us crazy and is no longer on the team?
Or was it Taylor?
Forsythe?
That’s the guy.
Please get on Russ. Just so Ryu can bat this inning.
Haunted by the first inning.
Okay Gavin. That’s something.
We stink!
You know what they say when Momma ain’t happy?
Turner is 2-for-2. The rest of the team is 0-for-11 with seven strikeouts.
I’m so so over A. J.
I was over A.J. after Friday’s game. He is currently fully inept at the plate.
I’m with you.
Beatty could be just as bad. But impossible for him to be worse.
Pollock’s up.
Grrr.
Pollock’s down
Not helping, Corey. Not helping.
Eager Seager.
Only 43 pitches for Ryu through three; 57 for Sanchez.
Bullpen will be in use tonight. Probably Corbin for 3 innings or something like that.
Hi Dave, I am on Butter Pecan right now.
Send me a gallon.
Sure that is enough?
Haha! Hey Package. I haven’t had any ice cream this week.
Nice clean inning.
We are out hitting them. Except for one not so bad bad pitch this game is scoreless.
For want of a nail . . .
Unfortunately Soto had a hammer.
In the 2017 World Series the Dodgers struck out 65 times in seven games; last year it was 56 times in five games.
Nice play by Seager.
RIP Rip Taylor..
Ump!!!!’
Judas Priest, guys.
Mier…coles.
Spoon. Oops – I mean fork.
In Desolation Wilderness, near Tahoe, you can hike to 4-Q Lakes.
I’m not sure why, but that fact seems great to me.
I hear it’s tradition to yell out the name of the lakes at sunset.
I only went once, and my dog was the only other person there.
Kiké! Kiké! We want Kiké!
Am I allowed to violate Rule One in the postseason?
In my mind it happens all the time!
I welcome your euphemisms, goldurn it!
Duck Duck Goose
Loon Loon Moose. The Canadian version.
He cannot lay off that low pitch.
Now your turn Cody, don’t over hit it
He under hit it.
Need a simple single.
JT keeps on hitting
JT is clutch.
If this keeps up, we will consider a 3-2 count as a rally.
I despair. I do.
Hang in there RBI.
We stink right now. Come on. This is Sanchez, guys.
They are hitting like it’s Strasburg or Scherzer.
He will be Sanchez pretty soon.
Good eye Joc.
Let’s get the party going here Dodgers
Calling all bats. Calling all bats.
Car 35, where are you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5MkCAwupe0
Everything is now at our fingertips if we know where to look. Good find.
I watched that show all the time, and I never noticed that they were playing checkers in the car.
I don’t know if I ever noticed it before. It’s been nearly sixty years, fer cryin’ out loud!
Maybe only one of them were playing while the other drove.
Nope. Watch the clip again.
Should we send up the bat signal?
Top, top of the 3rd, time to storm the castle.
As long as it is not the French Castle from Monty Python and The Holy Grail!
I still say we got this. I trust the Dodger hitters to get it going soon. Or later. Some time tonight.
I’m hanging onto to your optimistic coattails. Barely.
Ryu not swinging.
If he can’t hit who can?
Babe Ryu you are our only hope!
Three Ks. This is not the same team we saw all summer. Not yet, anyway.
Ryu needs to go yard.
Of our 55 outs thus far, 32 have been by strikeouts, including that one and a total of 12 by Pollock and Bellinger.
They have turned into the San Diego Padres.
Or the 1966 Dodgers.
Our nemesis in the post season.
Martin is going to pound Sánchez.
Ok I was wrong.
Presumably you meant the next AB.
Yes. That must be it.
Well, you did go way out on a limb there.
If we all predict that for everyone, surely someone will deliver (hoping)
I just thought a veteran hitter wouldn’t be fooled by Sanchez’s stuff.
Ugh.
Maybe we should have started with Kolarek
As Bob Hendley knows, I have a whole lot of high school classmates in the DC area, and some of them are Nats fans. We are all cordially sneering at each other during this series. I really don’t want to hear those people if we lose, so don’t do that, Dodgers.
My son and his wife live in the DC area as well and giving them bragging rights for a whole 2020 would be annoying.
Stupid walk to Eaton.
Was a K, but for the ump. Look at GameDay.
I know. That’s why it was stupid.
I wonder if they are putting too much pressure on themselves for not winning it all last year?
Could be.
I think you’re projecting.
I hate baseball sometimes.
What I hate is that I get so incredibly emotionally involved with the Dodgers. It was a great link between my father and me growing up, perhaps the strongest one we had.
Ditto.
Thritto.
Quatro
My dad was born in Brooklyn in 1916, so he suffered through all those years (1921-1940) when the Dodgers never won a pennant. He would sometimes ditch school to watch them play. My mother was an immigrant from Romania in 1931, at the age of 10, so she adopted the team.
Suffering through 1969 was bad enough, cannot imagine twenty years.
Dad a Brooklyn fan, son an avid Dodgers fan.
ditto
My Dad’s Mother was a great Dodgers fan. Dad was no sports fan at all.
Only Dodger fan in my family growing up, but for a few years my father took me to.a game on my birthday because he knew how much it meant to me.
That’s awesome!
Only baseball fan in my family
I especially hate baseball on TBS.
ESPN is light years worse.
Doomed. And it wasn’t a bad pitch at all.
Behind in the first inning. Again.
Beats the ninth!
Dang it.
Rats!
Ugh…
When I saw the lineup I said to myself that I wish we were starting Kiké over Pollock.
RBI: My stomach is all tied up as well. In fact, I am following the action now on Yahoo,
May have to do the same.
I’m watching on YouTubeTV, which has a free five-day trial.
I’m watching on my MLB account. Which I can do because I’m “international”.
Love a DP.
Are you futuring, or is that wishful thinking?
Wishing on a star.
Ryu not looking sharp either. Small sample size not with standing.
He’s thrown two strikes called balls already.
Certainly sharper than Sánchez.
Both pitchers with longer times between games pitched.
Until now.
Ump showing favorites?
I’m relieved that Turner doesn’t reach base.
Nice play JT!
Love the bounce pass.
Oh, brother (and sister), what a disappointing start. And Bellinger and Pollack pick up right where they both left off. Plus, the Nats’ crowd is now really into the game.
I would give Beaty a start, just to see if he could get some hits.
Agreed!
As they say in Texas, “You dance with them what brung you.”
Question is – did AJ bring us? And if he keeps stepping on our feet, how long do we keep dancing with him?
At least Asleep at the Wheel says (sings) that.
If that was our best opportunity all night I am going to be really really upset we didn’t take advantage of it.
I’d bet the hose it won’t be.
Almost 30 pitches the only silver lining. Plus, Nats bullpen.
What a wasted opportunity.
Oh fer…
Well that doesn’t sound good.
I’m more nervous being behind the action and no one posting results yet. Lots of foul balls I guess.
Get to work, future people!
I’m with you. About 40 seconds behind the action tonight.
Okay Pollock prove me wrong!
Okay, AJ. Now would be a REALLY good time to get untracked.
I’d even take a walk here.
Or even a passed ball/wild pitch.
Hit by pitch works too.
Heck, I’d take a wild pitch. 😉
Another K for Cody. This is becoming very concerning.
Pressing like mad.
Cody. No.
Hey we have two on base already.
Better than the start to Game 2.
C’mon, Cody, recover your stroke.
Muncy just misses an EBH.
I would have taken a foul ball over an out.
It was a foul ball.
Sorry – I meant into the stands.
I love first inning walks.
I find it irksome to hear Anglo announcers say Annabelle Sanchez. It’s Ah-NEE-bahl.
You should see how some people spell the various teams.
Feels like the pressure is on the Dodgers tonight obviously. Don’t want to lose a Sánchez vs Ryu match up tonight and then need to win a Scherzer vs Hill game tomorrow to stay alive.
Whoa. Low strike there, ump.
Very.
My stomach is in knots. Scoop, how’s yours?
I don’t know about Scoop but I’m feeling semi-confident.
I would have Hernández in the lineup over Pollock at this point.
Ooph. Bad loss for the Cards.
So, the Budweisers blow it.
Trying to decipher your language WBB – what do you call the Brewers? I thought they were alcohol related as well.
Cerveceros = Brewers
Right. Thanks Link.
If only they had pitched to McCann
I’d love to see a Melancon meltdown as well.
To ease our nerves, I think Joc should help us out with one of his reasonably regular lead off HR
Martínez meltdown!
Hechavarría swings at ball four.
Appallingly bad baserunning.
When a guy’s thrown only two strikes in 12 pitches, why would you swing at anything until there’s a strike?
about out the door to the park. Usual spot right above the Dodgers bullpen. Will try to catch a JT dinger.
AND a Bellinger dinger!
Not to mention a Muncy mash!
And a Seager swat!
The Budweisers are sticking with Wainwright, who’s thrown 118 pitches with two out in the eighth, and has two runners on.
Really pushing it now. Almost gave one up there.
He’s missing by a lot.
119 pitches? I should think so.
120, and that’s it. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/97169df30e9fb50cf20902af2ecc8769c168a063f5a623a2f1c99479de725912.png
Crazy to wait until the bases are loaded to pull him. This is one of those managerial decisions that can come back to bite bigtime, depending on what happens next.
I hope that Washington’s starting pitcher does not do well — perhaps has a horrific game — and that afterwards the Nats manager, Martinez, critiques his performance with an Anibal Lecture. (Yes, I am stretching and, yes, I am nervous about this game, so please excuse me.)
No comment.
And deservedly so.
Scooplew
I hope Ryu has a great game and the hitters come alive but I will also take a Nat bad game if that is the only way to get a win. I am also nervous.
Whatever it takes to win will do: solid hitting by us, bad pitching by them, unearned runs for us, some bad bounces in our favor, or any combination of those four. I will get in shape for this game by taking a nap now.
If the Nats start Scherzer and Strasburg the next two days, they’ll potentially have Corbin as a multi-inning LHP out of the pen. It strikes me that they’re trying to make the best of a bad bullpen by not using it if they can avoid it.
Might work in a five-game series. I hope not.
It’s their only choice, arguably. It worked for them on Friday.
Huge game for the Dodgers. They do not want to go down 1-2 and be in D.c. but they have an excellent shot with Ryu. Hopefully the right handed lineup is not in but Dave likes it.
So, Anibal it is.