Dodgers at Diamondbacks, 6:40 PM PT, TV: SPNLA, KTLA, FS-A
The Dodgers ask LHP Rich Hill (9-5, 3.32 ERA) to stop their two-game losing streak (horrors!). He’ll face the D-Backs’ RHP Zack Godley (5-7, 3.53 ERA).
Hill lost a perfect game, a no-hitter, a shutout and the game in the ninth and tenth innings his last time out. Godley has lost three straight starts despite giving up only two runs in two of them.
Doc and A-Gon are longtime friends and ex-roomies, which has helped the Dodgers.
Dodgers’ September Call-Ups: Who’s In, Who’s Out? Howard Cole makes predictions.
On this day in Dodgers’ history:
- 1939 Wheaties sponsors the first telecast of a baseball game when their ads are aired during the Ebbets Field contest between the Reds and the Dodgers. The commercial broadcast is available only in New York City, where an estimated 500 people own television sets.
- 1948 Jackie Robinson hits for the backward cycle when he homers in the first inning, triples in the fourth, doubles in the sixth, and completes the rare event with a single in the eighth. In addition to his ten total bases, the Dodger second baseman drives in two runs, scores three times, and steals a base, helping Brooklyn beat the Cardinals at Sportsman’s Park, 12-7.
- 1951 With his second home run of the game, the sixth time he has accomplished the feat this year, Gil Hodges hits his 36th round-tripper to establish a new franchise record for homers in a season. The Dodger first baseman’s seventh-inning three-run blast in the team’s 13-1 rout of Cincinnati at Brooklyn’s Ebbets Field surpasses the mark of 35 set by Babe Herman in 1930.
- 1989 Giving up just three singles, recently acquired Mets southpaw Frank Viola outduels Orel Hershiser and beats the Dodgers, 1-0. The classic contest between two aces marked the first time in baseball history that the reigning winners of the Cy Young Award have faced one another in the regular season.
Cultural history note: On this date in 1966: On a typically cool night, the Beatles play their final concert at Candlestick Park, the home of the San Francisco Giants. The “Fab Four’s” performance on a five-foot stage, which is located just behind second base surrounded by a six-foot high wire fence, is less than stellar due the ballpark’s inadequate lighting, poor acoustics, and the group’s growing disdain of doing live shows.
Lineup when available.
— Ken Gurnick (@kengurnick) August 29, 2017
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Rats. Oh well, Ryu tomorrow and Cody will probably start as well.
3 in a row, 5 of 9 losses.
Just following on updates, I felt a disconnect, like the team of old — one facet would be clicking but they would be let down by one or another of the others.
But I was impressed by other relievers and definitely the bats not giving up.
This disconnect was bound to happen . . . let’s just hope that it ends soon and they can beat the playoff-caliber teams again!
Almost no Corey, no Cody, and down 5 in the first. It could have been a lot worse.
I agree — I’m more encouraged by this game than either of the other two.
So I don’t have to feel bad that the time has begun to tank ever since I came back from East Asia?
Is there a plane leaving soon? LOL.
Oh man. Just after I got over jet lag!
Well, if that’s what it takes . . . 🙂
Dodgers needed to score in the 7th. Missing a fence post there and it meant they were one short.
Missed it by that much.
Was watching Gameday and saw the dreaded “In play, out(s)”
Ah, phooey.
Drama
Rodney at 24 pitches.
He’s a mess.
Hits him. Wow.
JT, you can do it!
That helps!
Rats, Seager. Okay, Taylor, do your thing. Never dull.
I bet the Snakes can’t wait until next year, when they can dump Rodney and make Bradley their closer.
Why don’t they do it now? Seems so obvious.
I’d do it, but they signed Rodney for that.
That kind of stubborn clinging to a decision never made sense to me.
How would that have work? Would they only give a single or say it would be a double?
Nevermind!
It would be umpire’s judgement, but I expect a double.
Thanks WBB!
Utley! Double! What an at bat.
It sure looked fair to me.
A quarter inch foul, if that.
Shoot. I so thought that was fair!
Nice! Now let’s get two back at least.
Don’t give up another one, guys!
Nope.
At least he is able to make some plays in LF.
True. I just dislike the way he always seems to be 0-2 before you can blink. Usually two pitches right down the middle.
Karros used to bug me like that as well.
Forsythe’s at-bats drive me nuts. Prove me wrong, Logan.
I think the Dodgers now have the leader and runner up hitters that have the largest average pitch counts with Granderson at #1 and Forsythe at #2.
There’s one. Need another hit or two.
Okay then. AGon with the double!
Good hit, Grandal.
Bradley wins the Battle of the Beards.
The Dodgers have a secret weapon in this game, though – Fernando Rodney.
Funny man.
I hope this post is prescient.
Let’s (at least) tie it at 7 in the the 7th.
Looking unlikely, but you never know!
At this point, I would settle for 2 runs… (should I make it 1?)
Disqus often acts weirdly. Usually it opens a small side window but, on occasion, it does nothing or is very sluggish. Then, when you click again, it opens a whole new tab.
I wonder if Hill had another blister issue.
For all its faults, Candlestick was a better place to watch a ball game than TPBTBNL. Still, when the Beatles played, “That evening the stadium’s 45,000 seats were just over 50% full, and the weather was in the 40s, with a strong westerly gale. The band commented later that, due to the cold and wind, they couldn’t wait to be finished with the show, and whenever anyone suggested live concerts later, this was the image that formed in their minds.”
Good quote. Where is it from?
I found it at http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM4VKM_Final_live_commercial_concert_Candlestick_Park_San_Francisco_California_August_29_1966
Game starting to slip away again.
Puig appears to have a decent shot at 30 dingers, and Taylor almost certainly will reach 20 – not bad for a leadoff guy.
Or an 8 hole guy like Orel likes to say.
Seven guys in double figures — lowest are Kiké and Joc at 11.
Barnes and Chutley still have a shot at double figures, and they figure to play more down the stretch.
Turner’s beard getting longer.
He’s no Archie Bradley, though.
Hill throws 35 pitches in the 1st, 6 in the 2nd.
Hill to teammates: I pitched no-hit ball for nine innings and what good did it do me? So now let’s see what you can do for me when I allow five runs in the first?
Good call.
Ok Dodgers let’s see how you overcome some adversity.
Well, if Puig has anything to say about it…
On the bright side, Hill’s on a pace for 27 K’s.
and 200 pitches
Rough first inning for a team that is not hitting at the moment.
Wait until we get up, oh right, done that already.
Or should I say, badness?
Goodness.
Hill’s tossing BP.
There goes the perfect game and the no-hitter for Hill.
…and the shutout.
It’s Taylor’s birthday. 27, I think.
With a righty starter, I wonder why Utley is not playing second base.
Does someone here know why Seager is not starting tonight?
elbow issue.
Thanks.
Off on another journey. This time only two weeks to be back in time for annual Dodgers visit to National Stadium.
Wherefore art thou bound?
Venice (Italy).
I’ve had to settle for Abbot Kinney’s version.
Have you read Donna Leon’s Brunetti novels about the other Venice?
I have not, but looked her up.
Interestingly she won’t allow her books to be translated into Italian.
They’ve been filmed in Venice, but only in German, with the excellent actor Uwe Kockisch playing Brunetti. She’s worried about the Italian response, though I dare say it couldn’t be any more touchy than La Piovra (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086779/).
She’s got her likes and dislikes. She’s not real fond of the United States, either. I’ve read most, Mom’s read all of them.
Live many years in Venice, but now in der Schweiz.
While I was growing up in L.A. my grandparents lived several years in Venice. We’d combine swimming in the ocean with visiting them. Venice Beach had a breakwater that made it safe for kids.