Dodgers at Astros, 6:10 PM PDT, TV: ATT SportsNet-SW, FS1, SPNLA
The Dodgers’ RHP Walker Buehler makes his first start of the season. Also making his first start of the year is the Astros’ LHP Framber Valdez, who’s in his second full season in the big leagues.
This will be the first meeting between the two teams since the Astros’ sign-stealing methods of 2017 were revealed in the off-season.
A number of Astros players and coaches apologized when spring camps opened in February, but many, including Dodgers center fielder and reigning National League MVP Award winner Cody Bellinger, were critical of the team’s response.
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Many of the core players [from the 2017 World Series] on both sides remain the same, including Bellinger, Corey Seager, Justin Turner and Kenley Jansen for the Dodgers, and José Altuve, Carlos Correa, George Springer and Alex Bregman for the Astros.
The Dodgers have placed LHP Alex Wood on the injured list with shoulder inflammation and have recalled RHP Josh Sborz.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 28, 2020
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1991 Expos right-hander Dennis Martinez pitches a perfect game, defeating Los Angeles 2-0 at Dodger Stadium. Ron Hassey becomes the first backstop to ever catch two perfect games, as he also was behind the plate on May 15, 1981 when Indian hurler Len Barker faced 27 batters, beating the Blue Jays, 3-0.
- 2017 Alex Wood won his twelfth game against just one loss, going seven innings while giving up eight hits and four runs to the Giants. The Dodgers came from behind with four runs in the seventh and won 6-4.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup at Astros: pic.twitter.com/tDqZej4qu5
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 28, 2020
NPUT
Half the Fish are COVID-positive. https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1288512279022112768?s=20
Oh my God, Kelly walked off making the BEST “oh boo-hoo” faces at their hitters.
I liked his yawn as well after the hitter had to duck.
Ha!
Take THAT, Astros!
O okay, AJ after the last hit you are on a roll!
Unlike the last two games, we had a quick inning.
Dodgers win! (Belated as I was saying goodnight to my son when it ended.)
Say goodnight to your son for me as well.
I’ll pass it along!
I look forward to meeting you both one of these seasons.
This is a big win.
Agreed!
Yes, it was, not only to snap the mini-losing streak but also to show the Asterisks something about honoring the game.
Good night all. See ya for game 6.
Woo-HOO!!!
One more
I recall when Blake Treinen was basically the only free agent the Dodgers has signed in the off season. I was pretty pumped about that addition all by itself.
What a play by JT!
How many 100 mph guys do we have now? 3?
Throwing for strikes, 2.
Treinen, Graterol and… ?
Kelly
Right. Thanks.
May
May makes four!
Makes me feel ancient. I seem to recall whole seasons where there werent four in the league.
Ferguson, the slouch, only hit 97 tonight
Buehler hit 98 a couple of times
First really hard ball Ive seen Mookie hit this year. Had a real crack too.
He hit a few doozies during the intersquad games.
Got his average above the Mendoza line finally.
I’m sure he’s very relieved.
Yes! Mookie double! Walk, single, double.
Let’s see if that walk loosened Mookie up.
That walk was his at bat as a Dodger. Until he hit that double.
AJ having a great night. He must be so relieved his baby daughter is home from the hospital.
Go Caleb! Looked so sharp right there.
Nice inning, Caleb!
Gameday can’t figure that out and has given the Dodgers a run.
Gameday has removed that run, as it should have.
The ball hit Taylor. So Seager singles with the bases loaded and two outs and we don’t get a run.
Funny that when Joe and Orel were talking about the helicopter at Dodger Stadium – I could hear one flying above my neighbourhood.
They have choppers in Canadia?
Yes?
Seager with a bases loaded hit but no runs scored.
CT with the unintentional assist to make that happen.
Once, in the PCL, Stan Palys tried to break up a no-hitter by kicking a batted ball intentionally.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b56ecb77f3e742e46bfea82596aca9d27aaf7dfbb9ff64d257315cf530d69824.png
Scrubb is an ex-Dodger farmhand.
Umpire is piling it on. Seems to me. Nothing close going their way.
That was fun!
Let’s see what Astro pitchers are going to do. Not a good time to be in each others faces.
Benches cleared.
Kelly komeback!
Three strikes out of fourteen pitches. Not gonna do it.
Astro hitters a little uncomfortable.
Once, in high school, we got no-hit by a guy who walked 12 (in seven innings). We won the game.
Gotta love baseball.
Come on, Joe Kelly! Throw a few strikes. As in at least three.
Let’s not blink here Dodgers.
They misspelled “Software Stadium.” https://twitter.com/NBCSGiants/status/1288310547000197120?s=20
Well, was that an intentional shot at a hitter by Kelly?
Orel says yes indeed.
Given how he pitched afterwards, I’m not so sure.
I think we are experiencing the next to the last week of the baseball season.
I fear you’re right.
I expect that there will be more positive cases, but not at the scale of the Fish, so to speak. Theirs were the first positives since the season began and offer a warning to the other organizations and players the need for discipline and following protocol.
Rumor was that a bunch of the Fish went to a strip club, and I might suspect that lap dances constitute risky behavior. Whether or not that’s true, Florida is the country’s worst hotspot.
Believe they were in Atlanta.
Georgia is marginally better than Florida, but nothing to brag about.
I didn’t think he went, but I’ll take it.
Good inning, but coulda been lots better.
Good inning!
5-2 feels a lot better than 0-2!
Rats.
I bet this umpire is nice to his mother. He seems like such a nice guy.
He may have a thing about cheaters.
I was just thinking that.
Time to pour it on.
Or not…
That was a strike but we will take it.
Stringing hits together!!
And another hard single!
I like this rally. No need for a home run yet.
Me, too. Gets everyone going.
Small ball working!
Okay JT up to you!
Saaaffffeee!
Go Max go. You can do it.
Mookie is due
I’ll take it.
Muncy is capable of walking a run in as well.
Or that!
Peck em to death or maybe Smith will put one out.
Back to hitting it hard at somebody.
Hard but not hard enough…
Okay now, Dodgers…
Pollock is looking pretty good. Nothing hit really hard but making good contact. Maybe he will wind up being the lead off hitter with Mookie moving to the #2 spot.
Doubtful.
Well, duh 🙂
All Seager all the time.
If half of his liners were not at a fielder he would be hitting about .800
Walker lost steam…
Nice play Seager.
Kolarek got his guy
3 2/3 innings and 56 pitches
It was good until this inning.
The Dodgers are reminding me of a staircase. They go up and down but don’t go anywhere.
Scooplew – tonight was the night we were supposed to be hanging out in Minneapolis.
In an alternative universe.
Yes, you’re right. You and your son were going to come from Winnipeg and I from Carmel Valley, CA. I had been so looking forward to that trip.
Me too! Hopefully next year we can figure something out.
Awww.
I love hiking up the Carmel River into Ventana Wilderness, but haven’t done it for quite some time.
Or an escalator that disappears at the top.
This game is moving along quickly.
String some hits together team.
Preferably not ones just shy of the center field warning track.
Apparently the Dodgers like to hit med to deep fly balls.
Nine straight scoreless innings for us.
My feed crapped out before that pitch to Correa.
You were lucky.
I don’t like the Astros.
Almost Kiké.
If Kike’ is going to sport a mustache why not go all in and be creative?
My thumbs are all thumbs tonight. I may have to post less.
Is post the new word for boozing?
Ha!
Hahaha. (Especially because I just celebrated two decades without… but believe me, I am there in “spirit.”)
Seager walks!!!!
Looks like 90% of Marlins season ticket holders have bought cardboard cutouts behind home plate.
Here we go again with Taylor, Hernandez, and Pollock in the lineup together. I ain’t saying they aren’t pretty…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGZznJXY1Xc
I saw her perform when she was that age. Not sure why you’ve posted it here.
Has to do with banging drums and sign stealing I’m guessing.
I’m guessing the same thing.
Lyric: “I ain’t sayin’ you ain’t pretty”
1. I was close to getting the lyric correct although I intentionally changed you to they.
2. I have been called worse.
OK. When I see her, I think of a chicana alemana.
I still think she sang the best Star Spangled Banner at Dodger Stadium.
The 2-2 start is a replica of 2018. They split a 4 game series with SF despite LA out scoring them by 12 runs overall.
Have to miss this one. Other plans were made for me.
Night surfing?
Just dinner. My wife usually checks with me first gamewise, but she is not yet in mid-season form.
Are restaurants open?
Outside on the beach with spaced tables, yes.
You gotta love comida oaxaqueña.
I look forward to you sneaking in comments after under the table peaks at gameday.
Wasn’t very good at the peaking and sneaking part, so unable to go that route.
From Cliff Corcoran at SI.com: Besides Verlander, the