Game 145, 2016

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Dodgers at Yankees, 1:05PM PT, TV: SPNLA, YES

Clayton Kershaw (11-3, 1.89 ERA) makes his second start since coming off the DL. He’ll face Michael Pineda (6-11, 5.07 ERA). Pineda has given up 14 runs in his last four starts. This will be Kershaw’s first start in Yankee Stadium; he’s got a 1.20 ERA against them in two previous appearances.

Lineup:

Welcome back, Andre!

124 thoughts on “Game 145, 2016”

  2. Dodgers don’t play, but I’m a winner . . . of one of the 21,000 Olive Garden Pasta Bowl passes.

    For $100 + tax, I will get 7 weeks of unlimited “never ending Pasta Bowls” + free Coca Cola products for myself and guests. (Not good on “to go” orders, but I’m sure I’ll have doggy bags.)

    As someone wrote about this after winning previously, the pass is like Tolkien’s one ring: wonderful and powerful but probably should be destroyed! (I’m laughing now — let’s see how I am Nov. 21, the say after it ends!)

  3. noticed that we are the only division leader with a losing record on the road. Hopefully we will eliminate that statistic soon.

  4. Just saw the video of Justin’s double . . . I was impressed with the Yankee player’s concern for JT at the end of the play.
    Nice to see that regardless of the laundry, there is common decency and concern.

  5. Had grandsons tonight, so was not able to check in much. Did the rain delay keep Roberts from having to pull another starter with a perfect game or did CK pitch after the delay?

  6. Who would have thought that we would gain two games on the Giants while we were in Yankee Stadium for three games and they were hosting the Padres for three? The Giants have now lost six straight to San Diego.

    • I’m gonna be in SD next week and will probably go to Petco Park Monday night . . . I always like when I can root for the home team because their victory doesn’t affect the Dodgers. (I like it even more when their victory helps the Dodgers, but I think the Pads are playing AZ.)

        • Goldstar usually has them for half price.

          I’ve always been and expect to always be a Dodger fan, but I LOVE Petco Park. It’s gorgeous, situation by the Harbor, and soooo easy to get to with public transportation ($5 for an all-day pass on the trolley, which drops you off with a shorter walk than from Dodger Stadium parking lot to the stadium).

          • I went to a couple there — most memorably when I met Vin.
            I was going to a play in Balboa Park later that night and in no hurry to join the rush-hour traffic, so I stayed in the park.
            Then I wondered if Vin was still there. Saw Mo in an Aloha shirt (appropriately enough for this conversation!), then saw Vin. It was a year when LA wasn’t doing well and I told him how no matter what the team is doing, it was a joy to listen to him.

          • Cool. About the only time I can think of when the anemic offense was appreciated for extra innings.

          • I was one of that cadre of Navy sailors in dress whites on Sunday day games who got an afternoon away from boot camp at the Naval Training Center in SD. That was 1972. They closed the base in 1993.

          • A swabbie! My friend’s brother was there at about that time. I went to high school in Pt. Loma and was attending Mesa CC at that time.

  8. From the Cherry On Top Dept:
    With both crucial games so pleasantly completed, there is no baseball-related impediment to early sleep!

  9. Grant’s post-mortem: ” The Gnats looked like a team that would not be able to beat Luis Perdomo, Luis Sardiñas and the Padres, not in a million years, not with aluminum bats and crooked umpires.”

    And: “You can’t expect to keep Luis Sardiñas down for an entire series. And you can’t expect anyone to make good contact against Luis Perdomo. The Luises just keep piling up…”

  10. Just got caught up on what Kersh did (rehearsal interrupted me following much of the game) — his K-BB ratio just gets more and more mind-boggling.
    Had it not been for the injury, they would have to seriously consider renaming the CYA as the CKA.
    But I’m sure he’d trade all of that for a special ring one only gets after a special October.

    • Kershaw being Kershaw, bullpen shutting them down, bats manufacturing a run (Giants losing again) — very sweet!

  25. Just because the Yankees were generous doesn’t mean the Dodgers have to be . . . c’mon, Kenley!

  26. Okay Kenley. My work day is done, in time to see us score two. Up to you now, to close things down. Pretty please?

  29. Well. That was all very exciting. Set up by Seager’s steal – which is a rare occurance.

  36. YES!
    Get a break, then make things happen!
    Reminiscent of the other boys in blue — the Royals.

    • I would place a bet on that for you if Vegas had a line.
      I just hope LA has more “W’s” than NYY after this.

  44. I am delighted that the Padres beat the Giants three straight but more than dismayed that we couldn’t produce a run in two of our last three games (Sunday and Tuesday) and that we are scoreless again today.

  45. Never thought I’d say it, but I wish the Dodgers were playing (at least hitting) as well as the Padres.

  46. Utley looking for all the world like he was just waiting to be struck out. Didn’t swing at any of the last 3 pitches – including 2 right down the middle.

  51. The Gnatloss takes some of the edge of this game, and that’s fine with me – but I’ll still be disappointed if the Dodgers don’t win.

  52. High September drama. SD finishes off the sweep while Kershaw gets a swinging K to get out of a jam.

  56. In bottom of eighth The Phone Booth To Be Named Later, Denard Span draws walk and immediately gets himself picked off with tying run at plate.

  57. If the Padres can guarantee me they will win their game, then I would be fine if this game didn’t get completed today.

    • I’d say he got a real break there. But after what he’s gone through the last couple months, he deserves it.

  61. Rain delay or postponement would be worst of both worlds: late departure from NYC, post-midnight arrival in Phoenix.

    Meanwhile, Pads have retaken the lead over BadGums and the Gnats.

  69. Justin has one of those pine tar marks on his shoulder that Kemp used to have. Did we ever figure out what that was all about?

  70. Old friend Beltre putting up another solid season with the division leading Rangers at age 37. Probably their best hitter and just behind Machado in AL as best fielding 3rd base. Likely to again be in the top 15 in MVP voting for the seventh straight year (in four of the previous six years he has been in the top ten).

  72. LAT’d, my favorite quotation from Grant’s recap: “This blown save came on a three-run homer from Ryan Schimpf, a 28-year-old rookie who was a minor-league free agent in November. Anybody could have had him. Instead, he has more home runs in the second half than anyone on the Gnats has all year.” The Busted Poseur, by contrast, has not homered since mid-July.