Apr 05

Game 8, 2019

Dodgers at Rockies, 1:10 PM PT, TV: SPNLA, ATT SportsNet RM

The Dodgers send RHP Kenta Maeda (1-0, 4.05 ERA) to the Coors Field mound today to face LHP Tyler Anderson (0-1, 9.00 ERA). Maeda has very good career numbers in Denver: 4-1, 3.19 ERA, with 35 Ks, only 8 walks and a WHIP of 1.065 in 31 innings there. Anderson’s home ERA is third-best in club history at 3.73. He’s coming off a horrible outing against the Padres in which he gave up nine hits and three runs in five innings.

Mr. Puig’s arm hasn’t changed, even though his uniform has:

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1913 In an exhibition game against the Yankees, 25,000 fans watch the Dodgers play their first game in Ebbets Field. Brooklyn beats New York, 3-2, with Casey Stengel hitting the park’s first home run, an inside-the-parker.
  • 1957 The Phillies trade five players, Ron Negray, Tim Harkness, Elmer Valo, Mel Geho, and Ben Flowers (the player to be named later), and send $75,000 to the Dodgers to obtain much-touted Cuban infielder Chico Fernandez. Philadelphia’s new shortstop plays three seasons in the City of Brotherly Love, batting just .242, before being traded to the Tigers.
  • 1989 At Riverfront Stadium, Dodgers’ hurler Orel Hershiser’s scoreless-inning streak ends at 59. With two outs in the bottom of the first, Todd Benzinger’s single scores Barry Larkin, who had been picked off after getting a base hit to lead off the game, but was safe on the ‘Bulldog’s’ throwing error.
  • 1993 In front of 42,334 fans at Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, the Florida Marlins, making their major league debut, defeat the Dodgers, 6-3. Joe DiMaggio throws out the ceremonial first pitch, and the team retires uniform number 5 in tribute to Carl Barger, their late president.

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