Padres at Dodgers, 4:15 PM PDT, TV: FOX
The visiting Padres send RHP Yu Darvish (7-3, 3.26 ERA) out to do battle with the Dodgers’ LHP Tyler Anderson (8-1, 3.23 ERA). Darvish has a 1.61 ERA over his last four starts. He got no decision in the last one, giving up seven hits and three runs over six innings to the Phillies, who came back to win against the Padres’ bullpen. Anderson took his first loss of the year in his last start, giving up ten hits and four runs in six innings to the Rockies.
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1962 Johnny Podres ties a major league mark record, striking out eight consecutive batters in LA’s 5-1 victory over Philadelphia. The 29 year-old southpaw’s streak begins with the third out in the top of the fourth frame and ends after the first out in the seventh inning of the Dodger Stadium contest.
- 1995 Dodger right-hander Hideo Nomo, who is leading the National League in strikeouts, becomes the first player from Japan to be selected for the major league All-Star game. As the starter for the Senior Circuit, the 26 year-old rookie tosses two scoreless innings in the National League’s 3-2 victory over their American League rivals at The Ballpark in Arlington.
- 2019 The Dodgers overcome a 4-3 deficit with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning when the Diamondbacks’ bullpen walks five consecutive batters, including Cody Bellinger’s base-on-balls forcing in the winning run. The last time the Chavez Ravine club got a walk-off win with a walk was when Bellinger drew the fourth consecutive free pass issued by the Royals relievers, plating the winning run in a 5-4 extra-inning victory in 2017.
Lineups when available.
Lining up behind @faridyu. pic.twitter.com/kIczGt9XpH
— San Diego Padres (@Padres) July 2, 2022
Today’s #Dodgers lineup vs. Padres: pic.twitter.com/HkfEcGdf8J
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 2, 2022
NPUT
At Filly today, the Redbirds went back-to-back-to-back-to-back in the first but, despite that power surge, it’s now tied 5-5 in the third. At SF’s Software Stadium, meanwhile, Gnats trail Chisox 3-1 after four. Joc absolutely butchered a fly ball into a two-run double.
https://www.mlb.com/news/cardinals-hit-four-straight-home-runs
I seem to remember one of those.
Yahoo!
Hulo..
Good game boys!!
Quite a crazy record against the Padres.
Woo-HOO!!!
Argh. How about the next guy then?
You rang?
Good slider!
Let’s get Manny so I can eat!
I wanted him to make the last out.
Get this guiy Vesia.
Speaking of sac flies, my slow pitch team once got three in the same inning.
How did that happen?
One was a dropped fly ball. Theoretically, you could have an infinite number of sac flies in the same inning. It has happened five times in MLB. https://www.baseball-almanac.com/recbooks/sacrifice_flies_records.shtml
I still don’t see it. If the ball was dropped, it is an error.
It’s still a sac fly (see above).
Live and learn.
Good job JT. Good AB.
Sac fly is A OK – better than a K.
Good AB.
Smacked that one pretty good.
Max has been having much better ABs lately.
Mazara made a nice play.
Sit down Meatchado.
Mechado
Carne mechada….
LMAO
Brewster gets it done!
Careful Brewster.
First threat of the game. Go Brusdar, keep this right where it is.
So far, so good, thanks to Freddie.
Saved a two run double.
Maybe a triple.
Outstanding effort Mr Anderson.
https://twitter.com/BlakeHarrisTBLA/status/1543396218214092800?s=20&t=rWeWLt1Cv10R4y7LV4ObqQ
Well done once again, Mr Anderson.
Unexpected excellence – he’s earned a spot that nobody anticipated he would have.
https://twitter.com/THEREAL_DV/status/1543401996140482560
He needs a few days off.
How’d he get a contusion? Did I miss something? A foul ball off the foot maybe?
Limping after sliding to try to catch the pop up double.
Now they are showing that he fouled one off his foot in the third
So, there’s something to be said for swings and misses.
Ha!
Gameday tells me CT3 left the game due to an injured foot.
Guessing Yu is done for the day. If Melvin waves a white flag and opts for the backend of his pen, we could see a bunch more runs.
Nope. Still in there.
Doesn’t wanna burn the pen in a lost cause.
You said it. Save the pen for tomorrow.
Azócar is the Dick Stuart of RF.
Quite the play from Machado.
I think Justin may be back.
We will have to wait longer for Muncy.
Kaylor is being Kaylor.
CT3 can go get ’em in the outfield, not just throw ’em out from there.
CT3!!!
Yankees are out of this world this year.
Except when playing the Trashtros.
What’s their record against them?
2-3.
Thanks.
Cool hand Anderson.
Correction: It’s 100 Ks for CT3 this season.
CKT3
KKT3
That’s 101 Ks for CT3 this season.
And yet I still don’t despair when he comes up to bat, unlike that AJ Pollock year of pain!
It was actually 5 games in the 2019 NLDS, when he struck out 11 times. In 3 years he produced OPS+124. In his last playoff series with the Dodgers in 2021, he was one of the few Dodger hitters to show up against the Braves with OPS 1.190.
I thought he had two bad playoffs. Last year he did well and they traded him.
Yeah I had to completely change my brain his last year here. I always liked him, but I haaated that sequence of seemingly automatic outs.
Lamb is helping to turn this game into a slaughter.
He is likely to stick when Mookie comes back, as Eddy Alvarez has options but he doesn’t.
Lamb will help us more than Alvarez.
Now that Rios is out there is certainly a slot for him.
Maybe. He’s not been very good the past couple years.
Taylor is 1-for-8 in this series with 7 Ks, but his throw to home to complete the DP on Friday night may have been the most important moment in these two-plus games thus far.
Grisham hasn’t yet learned that he can’t run on CT3 (who, by the way, has fouled off lots of pitches in both ABs today).
Grant may root for the wrong team, but he keeps a sense of perspective. https://twitter.com/GrantBrisbee/status/1543375723892617217?s=20&t=5kxFCxHJSnd7-oCJ—iRQ
Quickly another run.
I could use a laugher today.
Voit’s obviously not a burner, but it was still shocking he didn’t even try to score on the base hit with two out.
I was surprised.
Tyler works out of it!
When somebody went deep on our slow pitch team, we used to call him a rally-killer.
Ha! That’s what Steve Lyons used to say, seriously.
Sprightly start, offense!
Could not have scripted it much better.
WOW!!
WOOT!
Yu has his gopher ball working this afternoon.
JT!
Woot! Woot!
Ok, 2 more.
Max tried to oblige
Willie!
Freddie!
Yu gives us fits.
Not so far…
ChiSox whip Gnats 5-3.
Chisox swat Gnats again, 5-3.
Jon Miller mentioned that the Giants had 18 pinch hit home runs last year and have zero this year.
BALCO Flaxseed Oil shortage, obviously. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/764fa2bf071d3203e9a2054c45432520730b52739807e16ca0c7374c8efc3379.png
Can the Gnats save Willie Calhoun?
I fear his time is past.