Game 23, 2020

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Dodgers at Angels, 1:10 PM PDT, TV: FS-W, SPNLA, TBS

The Dodgers send out RHP Dustin May (1-1, 2.75 ERA) to meet the Angels’ RHP Julio Teheran (0-1, 13.50 ERA). May has supplanted Gavin Lux as the Dodgers’ best candidate for Rookie of the Year this season, according to MLB. He’s walked five and struck out 17 in the 19 2/3 innings he’s pitched this year. This is the 29-year-old Teheran’s first season with the Angels; he signed a one-year contract with them after spending the first nine years of his career with Atlanta. He got a late start due to a bout with COVID-19.

Here’s Kenley Jansen’s game-ending three-pitch strikeout of Mike Trout:

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1950 At the Polo Grounds, Hank Thompson’s two inside-the-park home runs off Don Bankhead and Carl Erskine contribute to the Giants’ 16-7 drubbing of the Dodgers. The 24 year-old third baseman will hit 129 round-trippers in his 9-year career, three of which will be of the IPHR variety.
  • 1964 St. Louis outfielder Curt Flood collects eight consecutive hits during a doubleheader against Dodgers pitching. The Cardinals split the twin bill in Los Angeles, losing the opener to Sandy Koufax, 3-0, but take the nightcap when Curt Simmons tosses a six hitter to give the Redbirds a 4-0 victory.

Babe Ruth died in New York City on this day in 1948.

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92 thoughts on “Game 23, 2020”

  2. Speaking of the temperature, it was 107 degrees Friday in Carmel Valley Village on the Monterey Peninsula, where we live. It was 104 yesterday. Many of my wife’s plants and vegetables won’t survive.

  3. Giants’ closer Trevor Gott came in in the 9th inning Friday with his club leading Oakland, 7-2, and gave up five runs, all earned. The rally was capped by a grand slam by Steven Piscotty. Gott’s ERA went from 1.50 to 8.53. The Giants lost, 8-7, in 10. Gott came in yesterday in the 9th inning with the Giants leading, 6-3. This time Gott gave up four runs, all earned, and the Giants lost 7-6 in regulation. The killer was a three-run homer by Mark Canha with two outs and a 3-2 count and the Giants leading, 6-4. Gott’s ERA ballooned to 12.86. In each appearance, Gott gave up two home runs. “I still believe in Trevor Gott,” Manger Gabe Kapler said after the second game. Gott is German for God. Gott won’t get a chance for redemption today. The A’s are leading 13-3 in the 8th.

    • I liked the expression of the runner that was going to third when he had to stop to let the throw go in front of him instead of behind him for the assumed throw to second.

  5. Snakes have swept the Pads, who’ve fallen into fourth place. Rox win, remaining two games out.

  6. Dodgers who homered in first big league at bat:
    1929 — Clise Dudley, Brooklyn (team known as the Robins then)
    1930 — Gordon Slade, Brooklyn (Robins)
    1938 — Ernie Koy, Brooklyn Dodgers
    1947 — Dan Bankhead, Brooklyn Dodgers (also, the first African-American pitcher in MLB history and the first Black player in homer in his first MLB at bat)
    1990 — Jose Offerman, L.A. (August 19)
    1994 — Garey Ingram, L.A.
    2020 — Keibert Ruiz, L.A.

    • Coupled with Taylor getting picked off….I guess Rios couldn’t go at full speed; that’s on Roberts and the trainer who allowed him to remain in the game….We have three guys reach base, on an error, a double and single and we don’t score.

  14. On the radio Charlie and Rick are rhapsodizing about Buck O’Neil and the Negro League Hall of Fame in KC. I’ve never seen that museum or the one in Cooperstown. I’d still like to.

    • I visited Cooperstown in 1988. It was tremendous. Perhaps if I go this year the Dodgers will win the World Series again. I’d love to see the Negro League Hall of Fame.

  15. When you combine Rendon’s .203 BA with his walks and his power he ends up at OPS .955. Amazing.

  17. Whenever Tommy La Stella is due up, I think Marlon Brando should yell out his name.

  18. Today’s game feels like it is dragging. Still 3 more innings to go. (Not that I’m not enjoying the Dodgers hitting 4 hr and scoring 8 runs.)

  20. If the catcher on a hot day game fail to get on base, should the next batter delay stepping into the batter’s box like they would for a pitcher to give the catcher a chance to rest a little?

  24. Muncy with the big mental lapse may cost May a chance at going 5 and being in line for the win.

  30. Dodgers who homered in first big league at bat:
    1929 — Clise Dudley, Brooklyn (team known as the Robins then)
    1930 — Gordon Slade, Brooklyn (Robins)
    1938 — Ernie Koy, Brooklyn Dodgers
    1947 — Dan Bankhead, Brooklyn Dodgers (also, the first African-American pitcher in MLB history and the first Black player in homer in his first MLB at bat)
    1990 — Jose Offerman, L.A. (August 19)
    1994 — Garey Ingram, L.A.
    2020 — Keibert Ruiz, L.A.

  36. Gameday says it was 93 at gametime at the Big A. 105 right now in Simi. With all that being said, I imagine that huge mop of hair that May sports must be a little uncomfortable today.

  40. The inning starts with a gift that gets erased by runner error (picked off). Then a hard out to the rover outfielder/infielder. Then a line drive over Trouts head for a double. Then a single that had no chance for a double combined with a hampered hamstring “saunter” to home. See what I did there RBI? That’s not Dodger baseball unless you go back a few decades.

  44. On an uncharacteristic day of high humidity and thunderstorms in the Bay Area, my main activity today may be drinking water.

  45. Nice win last night!

    Dodgers W-L record by weeks of the season:
    2-1
    4-2
    4-2
    5-2

    After this week, the season will be half over!

  46. Regarding this date in Dodgers history in 1964 (above), I was at that doubleheader at Dodger Stadium. Koufax was masterful in the first game, a complete-game, seven-hit shutout with 13 Ks and one walk. That put him at 19-5. Because of traumatic arthritis in his pitching arm, the Dodgers shut him down for the season after that game. The club was 12 1/2 games out. In the second game, sitting in box seats behind home and first, I got a ball for the only time in the hundreds of MLB games I have attended: a foul hit by St Louis’ Charlie James off the Dodgers’ Larry Miller, who kept a large red bandana in his back pocket and frequently used it to mop off his brow.