Rockies at Dodgers, 1:10 PM PDT, TV: ATT SportsNet RM, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA
RHP Antonio Senzatela (3-0, 2.90 ERA) takes the mound for the Rockies and RHP Ross Stripling (3-1, 5.61 ERA) does the same for the Dodgers. Senzatela is having a whale of a season: he’s struck out 24 while walking only five in 31 innings, and in his last start he went eight scoreless innings, giving up just three hits. Stripling started off this season well, winning his first two starts. His last three have been progressively worse. He went only three innings in his last one, giving up eight hits and seven runs.
Here’s Bellinger’s walk-off HR and his reaction. He said he lost sight of the ball; he thought he’d hit it to left-center.
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1958 Gil Hodges hits his 14th career grand slam in the Dodgers’ 10-1 victory over Milwaukee at LA Memorial Coliseum. The first baseman’s bases-full round-tripper establishes a new National League record, but is far fewer than Lou Gehrig’s major league mark of 23.
- 1989 In the 11th frame of an eventual 22-inning 1-0 loss, the Expos’ Youppi! becomes the first mascot to be thrown out of a game when Dodger manager Tommy Lasorda complains to the umpires about the hairy orange giant’s behavior at Olympic Stadium. The L.A. skipper takes exception to the loud noise caused by the hairy creature’s running leap onto the visitors’ dugout before sneaking back into a front row seat.
- 1989 In that same game, the second-longest shutout in big league history ends when Rick Dempsey hits a home run in the top of the 22nd inning, giving the Dodgers an eventual 1-0 victory over the Expos at Olympic Stadium. The Astros blanked the Mets for 24 frames en route to a 1-0 win at the Astrodome in 1968.
- 2000 Team president Bob Graziano apologizes to a female couple who were asked to leave Dodger Stadium on August 8th because the two shared a kiss during a game. The pair felt the action of the eight security guards was discriminatory because the couple’s friends, a man and a woman, also kissed but were not ejected.
- 2013 At a Dodger Stadium press conference, LA announces Vin Scully will continue to broadcast Dodgers’ games for his 65th consecutive season. Some of the historic moments the Hall of Fame broadcaster has called include Don Larsen’s perfect game in the 1956 World Series, 19 no-hitters, including four thrown by Sandy Koufax, Hank Aaron’s 715th home run, and Kirk Gibson’s dramatic walk-off in the 1988 Fall Classic.
Lineup:
Today's #Dodgers lineup vs. Rockies: pic.twitter.com/ttl39rYKTo
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 23, 2020
Tonight there’ll be a protest outside SoftwareStadium. https://twitter.com/yourcallradio/status/1298288459325399040?s=20
NPUT
Tonight there’ll be a protest outside SoftwareStadium. https://twitter.com/yourcallradio/status/1298288459325399040?s=20
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Rockies only 8 more dingers away from tying this game.
Where there is a Will
The Dodgers honored Kobe Bryant before today’s game on what would have been his 42nd birthday.
Slick fielding DP by Colorado.
Kiké extends his Dodger lead in GIDP with 5; no one else has more than 3.
Bellinger passed the .200 mark.
First time this season that Taylor is starting a game batting third. He did that 10 times last season. Roberts wants to put a right-handed bat in the middle of all the lefties and Taylor has been hitting well of late: 12-for-38.
Strikeouts, halfway thru this year: 224. Extrapolated for full year: 448. If you use the 2.7 multiplier (60*2.7 = 162) 448*2.7=1207
Compare to 162 games:
2019: 1356
2018: 1436
2017: 1380
Marked improvement this year.
Well, that was half a Coors Field game. Dodgers did their part.
Dodgers in 10 game chunks so far this season:
7-3
6-4
9-1
Far fewer strikeouts this season than the last couple too.
Dodgers win!
Woo-HOO!!!!
C’mon, Santana, three up three down and let’s go home.
Joe Davis uses the verb “tomahawk” a lot. I wonder if in this day and age if it is still appropriate.
I’ve used that term a lot myself. I think of it as hitting a high pitch with raised hands instead of upper cutting a high pitch and not as a weapon. I like being political correct so I will just say who knows for now.
Merriam-Webster:
Definition of tomahawk (Entry 1 of 2)
: a light ax used as a missile and as a hand weapon especially by North American Indians
Not just Native Americans, then.
Fair enough. For whatever reason it has caught my ear and so I thought I would see what other thought. 🙂
Hatchet?
Belli could do it – match our record.
I had no idea Mookie was this much of a power hitter when we got him. I’m learning quickly.
He doesn’t fit the picture, but man, that sweet swing.
Toy Cannon II
Career:
MLB Career Stats
ABs 3308
Runs: 635
Hits: 995
HRs:148
RBI: 491
SBs: 129
And Ross Stripling is thinking – you couldn’t have let me pitch one more inning?!
Moookie!!
Is this a record? 7 dingers?
For this year. Dodgers hit 8 on opening day last year vs AZ.
Right… I forgot about that game.
You and Grienke.
Most in the NL this season so far. Blue Jays had 7 in an AL game.
Is this game in Colorado?
Goodness. Mookie!
I have a feeling the Rockies are going to win their next game or two. They look mad.
Bellinger may have done Max a favor last inning by taking away a two strike count against a lefty to a new count against a righty to lead off this inning.
Maxwell hammer!
Smartly dialed that homer in.
Dirty 1/2 dozen of HR’s.
In regards to the game in 1989 that Link mentions above – my dad and I watched all 22 innings on the French language channel in Canada that carried some Expo games. Definitely a favourite baseball memory of mine!
Well, Belli CS but not too painful considering.
Not really a CS – attempted to advance on a passed ball.
It will be scored as caught stealing and I don’t think it was a passed ball.
He didn’t go until the ball got away from the catcher. The box score does not include a CS.
I saw that. It doesn’t include a passed ball either. A player that gets picked off is recorded as a caught stealing. I consider it as a failed delayed steal.
It depends. If the runner getting picked off tries to advance, it’s a CS. If he tries to get back to the base, it’s not. It would’ve been a passed ball, but no stolen base, had he been safe at second.
Gameday says “Cody Bellinger out at second, catcher Elías Díaz to shortstop Trevor Story.” It does not say “caught stealing.”
Double steal! The Rockies hate us.
Violation of the unwritten rules?
Catcher not happy.
Mookie stole 2nd standing up!
And a Mookie hit!
Sailing sailing over the bounding main…
I haven’t heard that song in a long long time. Good one.
Phew!
Better get Story out here…
Seeking a good ending
And they all lived happily ever after.
Strange play, or misplay.
Here’s a weird little piece of trivial info:
Only 6 players in the history of major league baseball have 20+ home runs in a season without grounding into a double play.
1990 Rob Deer (27 HR)
1997 Craig Biggio (22 HR)
2006 Marcus Thames (26 HR)
2018 Matt Carpenter (36 HR)
2019 Eric Thames (25 HR)
2019 Joey Gallo (22 HR)
Facebook baseball groups are well-populated with stat nerds.
How many of them struck out into DPs?
I enjoy this kinda of stuff.
OK, let’s have a laugher now.
How does a rabbi make coffee? Hebrews it!
Groan!
A plateau is the highest form of flattery.
Woot! Kiké with the big fly.
https://twitter.com/PitchingNinja/status/1297642382360485891?s=20
I was not expecting that!
Kiké!!!!!
Deflection play.
We do that play better.
The Dodgers first 2 hits were more productive than Joc’s single.
So far.
Mix small ball with smash ball and score 3 three.
Stripling with the bend but don’t break defence.
Disappointing outing. Wood will get a shot, but it should be Gonsolin.
Strip’s curve is okay today but he just can’t get these guys out!
Gopher balls continue to plague Stripling.
Last one to score wins?
Punch. Counterpunch.
Mookie!
Mookie!
Now the batters are trying to undercut and catch a wave of air!
The ball is sailing!
I wouldn’t mind joining it.
Glad the HR was this inning and not at certain points last inning.
Good point!
Never a doubt
That inning worked out. Now back to some hard hitting fly balls for Dodger hitters.
I will trade 2nd and 3rd nobody out with 1st and 2nd with one out.
First and third with two out.
If the Rockies want to continue to run into unnecessary outs at home plate that’s fine with me.
Ideally, there’ll not need to be any more plays at home.
Bad baserunning bails out Stripling (perhaps).
Houston scored three in the top of the first at San Diego, which is our closest competitor in the NL West, four games back.
Seager pops one up…
If Corey stays healthy (I think it should be called “injury-free”), watch out.
Hey, WBBsAs, have you visited Guatapé in Colombia? Looks like a nice day trip from Medellín.
Many decades since I’ve been to Medellín and, then, it was not exactly a tourist town.
Yeah, its reputation was made for reasons other than tourism.
By nearly all accounts, Medellín is now a much more agreeable place. We never had any problems there. It was the first place I ever drank coffee that was palatable.
I imagine the city fathers and mothers are desperately trying to say “That was thirty years ago, it’s different now.”
I hope everybody is talking about black coffee. If anybody adds cream or sugar they shouldn’t be a critic.
Coffee is foul stuff.
Dip a doughnut in it then
Haven’t eaten a donut in decades, and don’t intend to ever again.
They are a good way to add weight instantly.
I’ll stick with Kanelbullar.
I hope that you have subsequently found palatable coffee somewhere, sometime.
The mystery of coffee is how something that smells so wonderful can taste so awful.
There’s a very fine line between finely brewed and over-cooked.
I see that Will Smith is starting behind the plate. Was Ruiz returned to the training facility?
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1297567317706985472
Thanks. In the old, old days, the Dodgers used to often carry three catchers on their 25-man roster: Roseboro, Pignatano and Sherry; Campanella, Walker and (for a spell) Howell.
Did Martin, Grandal, and Barnes ever play together?
Not that I could tell after a little research. The Dodgers have pretty much been a two-catcher club for a long time.
We’ve certainly not seen the last of Ruiz.