Giants at Dodgers, 6:10 PM PDT, TV: KTLA, MLBN (out-of-market only), NBCS BA, SPNLA
RHP Tyler Beede (3-9, 5.61 ERA) goes for the San Franciscans while RHP Tony Gonsolin (2-1, 2.89 ERA) pitches for the Angelenos. The Giants have lost each of Beede’s last eight starts, and he’s given up 18 first-inning runs in his 18 starts. Gonsolin has given up four runs in his last four starts and had a 1.80 ERA in the 20 innings he threw in August.
Here are Pollock’s three HRs from yesterday’s game (all solo shots, more’s the pity):
From a story at The Athletic analyzing which players are providing the most bang for the least bucks:
Three of the Dodgers’ best players — Cody Bellinger (No. 1 on the list), Walker Buehler (No. 6) and Max Muncy (No. 9) — are also their least expensive. (All three earn a little over $1.5 million combined.)
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1903 A year before the first subway line is completed, the Brooklyn Superbas, later to be known as the Dodgers, play their cross-town rivals in a two-stadium, same-day doubleheader. The first game played in Washington Park begins at 10:30 am with 9,300 fans watching the visiting Giants win the opener, 6-4, and later that afternoon in front of 23,623 patrons at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan, Brooklyn wins the second game, 3-0.
- 1916 The Giants defeat the Dodgers 4-1 to start their major league record 26-game winning streak. The ‘Jints’ start the span two games under .500 and make up nine games in the standings, but remain in fourth place during the entire streak.
- 1962 With four steals in a 10-1 loss to the Pirates, Dodger Maury Wills breaks the modern National League record for stolen bases in a season with his 82nd swipe. Bob Bescher established the mark in 1911, playing left field for Cincinnati.
- 1964 At Connie Mack Stadium, a Labor Day crowd of 26,390 fans watches the first-place Phillies split a doubleheader with the Dodgers. The attendance for the twin bill brings the season’s total to 1,224,172 patrons, breaking the all-time franchise home attendance record established by the Whiz Kids in 1950.
- 2001 Shawn Green breaks a franchise record for homers in a season with his 44th home run, the first of two dingers the Dodger right fielder will hit off Dustin Hermanson in the team’s 7-1 victory over the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. The previous mark had been shared by Duke Snider (1956) and Gary Sheffield (2000).
Lineup when available.
Tonight’s Dodger lineup vs. Giants:
Pederson RF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Pollock LF
Lux 2B
Hernández CF
Smith C
Gonsolin P#Dodgers | @Biofreeze pic.twitter.com/yUkUwkQ9co— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 7, 2019
Sunday Morning Coming Down – Things couldn’t have gone any worse yesterday. Both Yanquis and Minute Maids won, so Dodgers trail both by 1-1/2 games. Houston’s projected wins are 105.4, NYY 104.6, LAD 103.1.
In the NL, Dodgers are now just 2-1/2 games ahead of Barves (projected wins 99.4), as Nats (gnot the Gnats) continue to wither in Atlanta’s heat. Magic number remains the Duke, as Snakes continue to bite the Redlegs.
NPUT
May versus Crawford – no contest.
Maybe you mean May…
May yes May! Will change.
Presumably you mean May but, in any event, Brandi C’s career is closing down (though they’ll be paying him for many more years).
At some point we have to get our mojo back, I assume. All our competing teams seem to be doing just fine.
Yikes. Tuning in to see Goose threw 39? And their pitcher has two outs with only 8 pitches?
Beede is one of the worst starting pitchers in the league.
Last time I remember a popup with a Yastrzemski it was the 1978 playoff game between the Red Sox and the Yankees (the Bucky Dent HR game). That’s what Bellinger’s popup looked like to me.
We do not look like a championships team right now.
Chance that I might be there for the clinch in Baltimore (I’ll stay away from the churros, Boog’s BBQ for me!)
They don’t of course, but this game hinged on a blooper by them and a couple of hard hit balls by the Dodgers that were snagged.
First shutout since May!
I still blame the stale churro.
Was that a thing from last night?
Yep. Insult to injury. Tasted like cardboard. The last straw, as Scoop pointed out.
Well I would have bet the house the game would NOT end 1-0 after SF scored in the top of the first.
This is just miserable.
Nuts.
I really thought it might happen with Lux.
He hit that one well. All of them so unlucky tonight.
Shoot. Well hit but…
That was the HR swing right there.
That was the one to hit.
There’s the walk. Which – admittedly – is the easy part!
Good start!
Hard to believe that after tomorrow there are only 5 home games left for the Dodgers in the regular season.
I went to my final game
last night.
So near and yet so far – last night. But hopefully new script tonight.
Nice snag by Seager. Walk off time please!
It’s all set up for Lux if Pollock gets on.
Not a difficult play.
I was nervous and just glad he caught the line drive.
Kenley’s mechanics look all messed up.
Bad mechanics almost always lead to bad results.
Gnatball is bloopers.
No Joc and no Justin. Fewer J’s on the field. (How I am entertaining myself during this miserable game.)
Does adding Jansen in help at all? Stay tuned…
https://twitter.com/Sullivan_Ranger/status/1170143850553364481?s=20
That’s great.
Will be in Baltimore for Weds and Thurs games.
I got to see a game there last September. It’s a spectacular park. I’d like to have seen the Nationals’ park on that trip but I wasn’t in DC long enough.
Used to go up there a couple times a season, and Memorial Stadium as well, before the Nats came to town. Still go up occasionally, including the last time the Dodgers were there.
Polluck walk and then Lux blast in the 9th.
We need to get through Kenley first.
Couldn’t be worse.
No, it couldn’t.
Nice and easy swing please Belli
I mean – not THAT easy…
Bellinger – if there was ever a time…
Do I hear an echo?
Hahaha
6 outs to get at least 1 run.
3.
Not sure I love swapping out Joc for Gyorko
Agree. Obvs.
Joc v. lefties is not good.
But Gyorko? At .192? He is not good period.
Joc at .137
Versus lefties, you mean?
Natch
Gyorko looked pretty lost at that at bat.
Very Random Fact: Jed has almost the same numbers as Jim Thome when he played with the Dodgers back in 2009. Thome had a .471 OPS and 28 OPS+. Gyorko is at .499 and 34.
VSSS
Thome looked so fearsome at the plate despite the poor results over 17PA. Went on to 3 more seasons as a part timer with different teams with OPS+ 182, 131 and 112.
Since 2009, I have been irrationally mad at Thome – who apparently was a very nice guy. I was upset that LA was the only team he played on without hitting a HR…
Maybe we should take this sharing the same thoughts trick on the road. Lol
I question this switch.
This guy has a really low ERA so by rights we should hit him hard.
Just what I was going to say!
Let’s do it, then!
Or not.
sweet DP!
Lux with the walk-off hr tonight. Calling it now…
I was thinking of Pollock’s 3 HR night last night. I wonder what a team’s won-loss record is this year when one of their players hits 3 home runs. I wonder if the Dodgers are the only team to lose…
Probably searchable, but I dunno how.
Me neither!
Anderson is almost as bad as Beede, so we’ll see how he does.
You know what they say – give a bad SF pitching staff 1 run against a strong Dodger offense and they can be tough. Somehow, some way.
I’m over it. Was at the game last night, so…
Probably brilliantly. (Sorry. Grumpy.)
Yup. Shut us down. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.
That’s what I’m talking about!
Cody is pressing.
Has been for a few weeks. He did get the single tonight but even then he was swinging for much more.
Last week in 23 PA slash line was .316/.435/.684 with 2 dingers.
Right. This week, then? He just looks less relaxed at the plate to me. But thanks for the stats.
Last week, as in the days leading up to tonight.
This “past” week. 🙂
Feels like everybody is pressing this game. We need to snap out of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0x-fkSYDtUY
Bless you for making me laugh!
I’m feeling fresh because I have been away from here for the last few games…:)
We noticed, ahem…
Last night I had about 40 university students in my house.. It has been a full week.
Dagnabbit.
It is tough sledding out there tonight.
If ever there was a time, Belli…
it would be in the 7th game of the WS. Ohhh – you mean tonight. 🙂
Hahaha.
Ideally, in the fourth game.
Only if they have won the first 3…
Obviously.
Not hitting one of baseball’s worst starting pitchers.
Not yet anyways.
Actually they have had some hard hits but they have been caught.
I don’t think the Gnats have hit a ball hard all night.
Not quite Will Smith vs Will Smith but the undercard of Beede vs Beaty could be good.
Or not.
I mean I couldn’t even type it out fast enough before he popped up.
Let’s get something going on our side now.
Yankees won. Astros won. Diamondbacks won. Braves won. I’ll let WBB do all the math. But we need this win.
Plus if the Dodgers lose, then SF joins those winners listed above – which is never a good thing.
Need a nice easy ground ball to Seager right here.
Announcers jinxed Ferguson by saying how great the bullpen has been.
Brandi B belongs on the All-Ugly Team.
Caleb’s much better lately, and could be pitching his way into the post-season.
Which I would not have imagined at points earlier in the summer.
Geeze Louise. Not going out this evening.
Too bad Hernandez hit them the same distance. I would have taken a infield pop up on one and a long distance HR on the other.
Have we talked about how much of a Beede-eyed pitcher the Dodgers are facing?
I love the splash of yellow armbands on the uniforms. I love the meaning behind them even more.
Bellinger with the bloop. Barrel hits are overrated!
Given the awful first, Gonsolin’s outing was respectable.
And really the game could have been tied or the Dodgers ahead just as easily as still behind.
Should have been 3-2. Not 4-1.
Except for BadGums, Brandi C might be SF’s MLG (Most Loathsome Gnat).
Gonso’s settling down a bit.
Knew that would happen.
I suspected as much as well.
Better inning, but not exactly sharp.
Ump! Not helping!
Gonso’s not helping either.
Read this the other day in our copy of USA Today but forgot to link to it. Columnist Bob Nightengale writes about the Dodgers’ Will Smith.
The TV Gnatfeed is better tonight, and better synched with Jaime Jarrín.
Tough inning for Goose, but a chance to get out of it relatively unscathed.
So far, this game feels like waiting in the dentist’s chair.
39 pitches. Yikes.
Cheap run.
The Nats (gnot the Gnats) have finally scored a run against an Atlanta starter, but they’re still losing 2-1 in the fifth.
Back in the saddle!
Arizona, making a late and determined run to gain a Wild Card berth, beat Cincinnati, 2-0, today. Our major number stays at 4. The Diamondbacks’ only loss in their last 12 games was last Sunday when Joc homered against them in the 11th inning.
You misspelled “mild card.”
I hope Arizona does not make it, since we have a difficult time besting them.
To repeat: Two years ago, in the course of losing 16 of 17, Dodgers lost six straight to the Snakes in September. They then swept Phoenix in the division series, outscoring them 20-11.
Much rather them, if they make it, than the Nats and their starters for me. Recall 2017, when they beat up on us in September and we ended at 8-11 against them (11-8 this year). Dodgers then swept them in the NLDS.