Rockies at Dodgers, 6:40 PM PDT, TV: ATT Sportsnet RM, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA
The visiting Rockies send RHP Jon Gray (1-2, 5.74 ERA) to the mound to face the Dodgers’ RHP Walker Buehler (0-0, 5.21 ERA). Gray won his last start, giving up three runs on three hits while striking out seven in seven innings. Dodgers’ manager Dave Roberts says Buehler is close to his normal self, but his ERA surely doesn’t reflect it yet.
Kershaw passed Don Drysdale in career strikeouts as a Dodger yesterday:
Today in Dodgers’ history, two very different events, one a calamitous bullpen meltdown I witnessed on Friday Night baseball and one hilarious overreaction on the part of a baseball team’s supposedly-professional management:
- 1975 The Reuschel brothers of the Cubs join forces to blank the Dodgers, 6-0. Rick goes 6.1 innings, and Paul finishes the game for the first shutout thrown by siblings.
- 1990 The Phillies overcome an eight-run deficit, scoring nine runs in the top of the ninth inning to beat the Dodgers, 12-11. John Kruk’s pinch-hit three-run homer ties the game, and two batters later, Carmelo Martinez’s double plates Rod Booker with the eventual winning run in the Chavez Ravine contest.
- 2005 Florida suspends their bat boy for six games after the 11 year-old accepts former Marlin and current Dodger hurler Brad Penny’s $500 dare to drink a gallon of milk in less than an hour without throwing up. The Milk Processor Education Program will promise to pay off the dare and to cover the lost wages resulting from the suspension if the sixth grader, who is able to drink the quantity in the allotted time but cannot keep it down, agrees to drink three glasses every 24 hours.
Lineup:
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. Rockies: pic.twitter.com/qY1Yao08N3
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 21, 2020
NPUT
Scoop, I’m glad you and your family are safe.
A good win and a marked improvement from Buehler.
The other three Brazilians in MLB have all been pitchers. https://twitter.com/southernconetrv/status/1296950143942443008?s=20
GOAL
Shortest game of the season?
Seems like it.
2:35
Wow!
Dodger hitters helped out by swinging at a bunch of first pitches and flying out.
Along with all the hits and runs they produced that is.
So short, RBI only had time to say Hi and Woo-HOO!!!
True. The RBI comment counter was low tonight.
Exercising, cooking and eating with husband! Also watching.
That was a very solid win. Great pitching and lots of hitting,
Woo-HOO!!!
Dodgers win!
I get no joy from the fact that Kemp has fanned three times. Can’t forget that Braun cheated him out of the MVP award a number of years ago. I remember when Kemp, Ethier and Loney all came up about the same time and how great it was to watch that trio.
Those hitters are linked in my mind with the pitchers Billingsley and Broxton. Without looking at baseball reference though I couldn’t say how many seasons they all actually played together.
Guessing a whole bunch.
Kemp’s done OK for the Rox but, at this stage, he’s only a DH. I thought Loney might be next Mark Grace, which woulda been fine, but he sorta fizzled.
I notice from the Weather app that the air quality in Carmel Village is much better than here in Oakland.
Matty has been a DH for a long time. It finally required a whole league to switch for that to happen.
He might be able to handle LF at Fenway.
Ha!
I don’t think it was earlier today. You have so many fires nearby. We’re dealing with three in the vicinity. I think there are over 700 in the state.
We went through a horrible bushfire season in Jan just gone, I could see flames from our house and evacuated twice
Historic Big Basin State Park Left Severely Damaged By California Wildfires
Sweet play by Story on that groundball.
A dirty player
In case Story’s family is reading, I am referring to his uniform after he dived for the ball.
I was going to ask if you meant that literally or figuratively. I see you meant it laundr-ly.
Rockies are really testing the padding in CF wall tonight!
A grapefruit story–take that Vin!
Pretty sure Vin has told that one as well. But yes – a classic!
I like Orel and Joe together but one day Joe is going to go solo.
Missed it. What was it?
Wilbert Robinson catching a grapefruit dropped from a plane with a catcher’s mitt. It exploded and he thought it was his chest opened up. Good times.
Bums not fond of this move.
Drives me crazy.
Which move?
I enjoy watching Pederson play.
Might not see either Pederson or Hernandez in Dodger blue after this season.
Probably not but with Covid, who knows what kind of money will be spent on free agents and how that will affect either one deciding on the number of years and dollars they will want or be offered.
Besides it being questionable tactically, no?
No one on base that time but there might be later when he would have come up and then it will be righty on righty.
Is it a way to find at bats for a team that has more than 9 capable hitters?
Could have hit Kike’ for Muncy instead if that were the plan. I know Joc has struggled against lefties.
All true.
Cleaner to just switch out right fielders.
Cleaner than switching out second basemen?
Are you still with here RBI?
Had to cook dinner but was watching the gMe!
Fine situational hitting by Barnes.
Just missed doing even more with it.
Walker happy (me too!)
He was about to bite his glove though.
Wheeeew….
Never in doubt. (Gulp)
First spot of trouble for Buehler.
Glad the game isn’t in CO
When is the last time that Pederson, Bellinger and Muncy had hits in the same game?
They each had a home run a couple of days ago.
On the 19th.
You’re right. I had forgotten.
Good to hear from you.
Thanks, friends. We’re fine. Many offers to put us and our dog up. Even from Giants’ fans. Our neighborhood was put in the “warning” category. Storm(s) expected over the next few days. Rain? Lightning? Wind? Our house is on the south side of the Carmel River. They are going to try to keep it from jumping the river. But that won’t help the people on the north side.
Hello Scoop. Great touching base with you earlier today. Are you still at your one friend’s house or did you move over to the new spot?
Feels like the Dodgers have so far been sampling the appetizers tonight. I think they are ready for the main course now.
More like a very light salad right there.
Bellinger has officially crossed the Mendoza Line.
Bellinger’s looking much more comfortable at the plate.
Which is exciting.
Well we got there – just a few innings later than it felt: 4-0.
But now it feels like it should be 6 – 0
Haha. So true. Maybe by the 7th.
Well – both starting pitchers started the game with era that started with 5. Now neither of them do.
Tell me if you have heard this before, Seager doubles.
But on the second pitch this time
Corey! Seager!
Do you still have anyone playing soccer?
I don’t think I get what you are asking.
You had one of your kids in a soccer tournament recently. I was wondering if that was a end of season tournament.
Oh! My son did play soccer in the spring but had been playing flag football this summer. Thanks for asking!
That’s right, it was flag football. My bad.
He had a 6 TD game on Monday night. It amazes me sometimes to have a child that is so athletic. I had so few moments of success as a kid playing sports and here he is dominating at times.
Good fun. I miss not having kids still playing sports. Now they work 60 hour weeks.
They are hard workers! I trust they really enjoy what they do.
Two of the three are ready for a change. The other one adopted three kids and has a “full” life.
Adopting three sounds like a big story!
One that continues to grow.
Very cool.
Three kids? My kids only have one or two each, and that’s plenty hard work enough. I now have six grandkids. The youngest, Maggie, turned two today. She’s a pistol.
Here’s Maggie!
With Maple Leaf flags?
Ha! Good one. But we tend to be a bit less patriotic than our downstairs neighbours.
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What once looked like a promising inning is quickly expiring.
You spoke too soon.
Surely did!
Keep getting runners on base and eventually there will be scoring
Hi all. Walker looking sharp. Let’s give him some run support this inning.
Hi
RBI! You have been singular tonight for the Dodgers. However it would be great if you could multiple a bit. 😉
This is looking like the real Buehler.
His pitch hit the plate and they still swung!
DP. A good way to not strand runners.
I guess that is a worse feeling than wasting runners.
Mets fans root for a team with by far the highest number of base runners, but with the lowest percentage of them scoring.
Seems like the Dodgers should be up about 4-0 at this point. Hopefully this inning the runs come.
I was thinking similarly. Sometimes those blown opportunities come back to bite.
My fear exactly. On the flip side – the stats reveal that the Dodgers like to score runs late in the game.
I prefer scoring to be like voting in Chicago under Daley a few decades ago–score early, score often.
Has it cooled off in LA? Or did Seager just miss that one?
It’s still 86° (real degrees), just 48% humiidity).
Lol. “Real degrees”. Come on USA – dip your feet in the pool of measuring things the way the rest of the world does. The water’s a perfect degree of Celsius.
A kilometer is a mile, after devaluation.
Instant replay, electronic strikes, DH, and now 118.872 meter power alleys?
Remind me how many yards to a quarter mile again?
440
So that’s like 1200 feet?
(He says good naturedly.)
It’s a game of inches
Touche.
Despite the fire that caused Scoop to evacuate Carmel Valley Village, our air quality is worse in Oakland.
Sorry to hear it. Breathable air is something I take so much for granted seeing as many others don’t have it.
We’re staying indoors, with the windows closed. It’s not too bad around daybreak but, until we get some ocean fog, it’s not going away.
CT3 is now wide awake
Matt Kemp! I almost didn’t recognize him. He is looking a bit thicker than his early playing days. (Of course – don’t we all!)
Starting with my head
Who needs Betts?
Aaaah Muncy maybe?
Hope he enjoys his spa day as Roberts put it.
Barnes.
LOL
Betts says that Walker’s game 3 of the 18 WS was the best pitched game he has ever been part of.
Buehler is repeating that game tonight. The Dodgers just got better with Buehler back from his days off.
Betts ain’t part of it! Yet.
I’m moving that up to where I mentioned blown opportunities.
Fun start. Now let’s get several more.
Only one run. Got the short and long fly balls in the wrong sequence.
Sequencing is always important in this game of baseball.
Not used to seeing Joc double. When he gets a hit it seems like it is usually a single or a HR.
Classic Eager Seager.
Although it looked like a good pitch to swing at at least
I had to finish my ice cream sandwich to free both hands to reply
Orel is impressed with the way Buehler has started this game.
Message from Scoop:
“We are voluntarily evacuating. We are at the east end of Carmel Valley Village. The fire is perhaps two to three miles east of us.
The air quality is the worst that I have ever experienced, and I grew up in L.A. when an elementary school teacher would cancel recess and PE because of the smog.
A firefighter told us to leave when we think we should; there is no guarantee of warnings. The firefighters are spread so thinly throughout the state. I was talking with one from Calaveras who drove a rig down here and had been up for 36 straight hours.
Trump, pandemic, hot weather and fires. Not a good foursome.”
He was kind enough to contact me as well. He said the same things to me. Rooting for those fires to be contained like it was the Dodgers in the 7th game of the WS – and then some.
Message from Scoop:
“We are voluntarily evacuating. We are at the east end of Carmel Valley Village. The fire is perhaps two to three miles east of us.
The air quality is the worst that I have ever experienced, and I grew up in L.A. when an elementary school teacher would cancel recess and PE because of the smog.
A firefighter told us to leave when we think we should; there is no guarantee of warnings. The firefighters are spread so thinly throughout the state. I was talking with one from Calaveras who drove a rig down here and had been up for 36 straight hours.
Trump, pandemic, hot weather and fires. Not a good foursome.”
Thanks for sharing
Yeah, what Bumsrap said.