Game 25, 2014

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Rockies at Dodgers, 6:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA (Note the one-hour-earlier-than-usual start time.)

The Dodgers are 3-5 on the homestand, 1-5 in extra innings games and the bullpen has suffered eight of the team’s 11 losses. To try to stop the slide, today the Dodgers will pitch Paul Maholm, who’s 0-2 with a 5.60 ERA so far this season. He’s also a career 1-8 against the Rockies, although the last time he pitched against them was three years ago. The Rockies counter with Juan Nicasio, who’s 2-0 with a 4.30 ERA this season. He’s 3-2 with a 3.67 ERA in eight lifetime starts against the Dodgers.

Here’s Gordon’s infield double from yesterday’s game:

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32 thoughts on “Game 25, 2014”

  13. This is depressing, but I am confident it will pass. I just hope that we are not five games back when we start to play good baseball.

  14. Good teams find a way to score.
    Then there’s the Dodgers — at least lately.

    • And plays like it . . . deja vu early last year: lots of teasing, not much scoring.

    • It was indeed, I’ve be watching baseball for nearly six decades, and can’t recall anything comparable.

      Once though, in a slow-pitch game, I got an even shorter double. I hit a low spinning popup off the glove of a charging third baseman, who deflected it past the catcher to the backstop. I got a standup double on a ball that went minus-30 feet.

          • Yeah, but it’s a freakish play in which the fielder has to change directions and run 20 feet to get the ball. It looks weird, but it makes sense (that he could get to second) based on the positions of the fielders. The Willie Davis “double” is nuts, in my opinion, in that it is a regular ball hit directly to the outfielder (not at all in the gap) who has the play in front of him and who tries to get him at second. Both plays are amazing, but the Davis one doesn’t compute based on my expectations of watching that type of single hundreds of times. If I’m not mistaken, he may hold the all -time fastest timed run home-to-first. Cheers.

          • I hear you — I guess it’s just that when I see a guy go for 2nd (like Puig has on occasion), I can usually, visually predict it as a possibility (based on the speed of the ball or if it was a blooper or if the fielder got a bad jump or if the fielder had to move laterally) and in the video above, I just don’t see it. The outfielder charges the ball, throws the ball accurately to second (albeit on two hops that makes the fielder have to corral it) and Willie Davis beats it! If you’ve watched as much baseball as I have (which I imagine you have), there are just certain times when you see something that seem to defy expectation. I expected Dee to go for 2nd when I saw the position of fielders on the play the other night. I did not expect Willie Davis to beat the throw in the video above.

            Here’s to hoping Dee keeps on doing spectacular things with his speed. I thought the double play he started last night was one of the best defensive plays of the year by the Dodgers (and came at a key moment). Cheers.