Dodgers at Padres, 6:10 PM PDT, TV: FSSD, SPNLA
The visiting Dodgers send LHP Clayton Kershaw (5-1, 1.98 ERA) out to the mound at The Murph Petco Park to face RHP Dinelson Lamet (2–1, 2.24 ERA). Kershaw wasn’t at his best in his last start; he surrendered four runs on four hits in five innings against the D-Backs. Lamet is seemingly heavily reliant on his slider; in his last start he threw 66 of them. The opponents’ batting average on those pitches? .099.
MLB features this series, leading with this sentence: “The best team in baseball meets the hottest team in baseball this week.”
Here’s Graterol’s 3K first inning yesterday:
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1951 Preacher Roe wins his 20th game of the season when the Dodgers beat the Pirates at Forbes Field, 3-1. The 36 year-old southpaw will finish the season with a 22-3 record.
- 2002 Chin-Feng Chen becomes the first Taiwan-born player to appear in the major leagues as he walks and scores as a pinch-hitter for the Dodgers against the Rockies. The 24 year-old first baseman-outfielder played for the 1990 Taiwan team which won the Little League World Series.
- 2008 Mets shortstop Jose Reyes, with his eighth-inning thievery in a 7-4 loss to the Braves at Shea Stadium, becomes the first player to have four straight seasons of 50 or more stolen bases playing for a New York area team, which also includes Yankees, Dodgers, and Giants. The accomplishment extends the infielder’s own record, as he is also the only Gotham major leaguer to achieve the feat for three consecutive years.
Also, in 1990 Mariner Ken Griffey and his son, Junior, become the first father and son to hit homers in the same major league game. The back-to-back blasts are given up by Angel hurler Kirk McCaskill.
Lineup:
Tonight's lineup at Padres:#Dodgers | @Biofreeze pic.twitter.com/dqiB7IkLZa
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 14, 2020
On the bright side, https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1305907094831468549?s=20
NPUT
Congratulations Doc. Didn’t let Klayton talk you out of pulling him. Whether that was a good decision we will see but Doc has let Klayton have too much leash too many times.
We just saw. What was the nature of the double?
Soft fly ball. In my opinion, Joc was too far off the line.
Very long way to run.
That’s where the note in his cap told him to stand
I wonder what the note in Duke Snider’s cap said? Or in Willie Davis’s?
But why Báez? He’s barely pitched, and not so great in these situations.
Because Roberts doesn’t understand how to manage pitchers.
Baez and Jansen were the ones that didn’t pitch in yesterday’s bullpen game
I was using alternative facts
You didn’t want to cause a panic.
Báez did. Didn’t he?
Jansen did, Baez didn’t. This was not the right spot to give Baez his second appearance since August 19.
It’s his worst trait. Now watch, he’ll leave Pedro in until they’re up by six.
Pretty nice first trip through the lineup (plus Tatis a second time) for Kershaw. Just enjoying watching him pitch right now.
Bah.
Humbug.
However bad Bellinger’s been, Yelich has been worse this year.
I take no consolation in that.
Doctor,, I think I may hear a pulse.
Was batting Pederson third tonight like trying to find lightning in a thimble?
Didn’t find it in the third or fourth spot
Rally hats on everybody
As long as none of them is Pederson’s.
There was no swing inside his hat
They are even hitting Mr. Eyechart.
And again with Pederson. Somebody change his hat..
The Pads are still odds-on favorites to finish second.
I expect them to be knocked out in the first round.
Not so sure about that. They have talent, though they’re playing over their heads.
It’s baseball – that’s all I meant.
Get it out if everyone’s system.
Well, we won the first five innings, 1-0.
Delay due to cardboard cutout running onto the field
Good pitch. Not our night.
Mookie taking a lot of first pitch strikes.
We have had some simply awful games lately. If we lose tonight, that would make it five losses in the last eight.
It’s the Dodgers
https://twitter.com/BlakeHarrisTBLA/status/1305712176942833664?s=20
Small ball and bad defense.
Was Machado trying to steal with a five-run lead or was he picked off?
Trying to steal.
And picked off.
That will not sit well with the Dodgers when they take the field tomorrow.
Along with the posturing.
Missing JT.
Wasted a great game from Kershaw
And he will get the loss.
Barring a miracle, he gets the loss.
Padres see a team they can beat
In a way, Muncy’s errors make this easier for me to take then a full-on pitcher’s meltdown like the other night.
We may experience both.
I admit I have never been a believer in Muncy and now I have had enough of him
What a disastrous inning for him.
His third base play has not been good enough for him to have played there as much as he has
And he isn’t hitting this year, except for his homers, only one of which he has hit this month for his only September RBI.
Muncy is tonight’s goat/
Seriously.
I hate this.
The worst play of the year. Muncy you blew it.
What did he do (or not do)?
He couldn’t decide whether to take the out at first, or go home. Late on both.
So ugly – waited way too long to throw home without ever touching the bag for the out.
Depends on which ground ball to him you are talking about
Ha!
The worst play of the year. Muncy you blew it.
I am becoming increasingly disenchanted with how this game is going.
Same sinking feeling here.
The Dodgers and Baez shall enchant us
maybe not
I’d stick with Clayton.
Me, too. We shall see…
Double Play Please
i’d say safe.
Bellinger just missed hitting one out. Not foul by much.
Correction: Muncy has two hits, both singles, in his last four games, including tonight’s.
I prefer Grisham the novelist to Grisham the hitter.
Both had Rainmakers
I’ve never seen that reaction except maybe in football. I think I would have wanted to watch it.
That was a meatball.
Does Muncy need glasses? He has struck out nine times in his last four games, including tonight’s, He has one single and no walks during that stretch.
This game is moving nervously along. Feels like playoff baseball.
About to start exercising while I watch – carry on, my friends. Let’s win this one, shall we?
Big out, Kershaw!
I left to surf while nothing going on in here and came back to 24 comments.
Miss a little. Miss a lot.
Aim small, miss small
Aren’t you a bit far inland for surfing?
The waves were high on the Internet
Gabby joined in! (That would be me.)
Smoked… and caught.
Gotta swing at those pitches down the middle, Gavin.
So, WBBsAs, would you have rooted for Preacher Roe when he was with the Dodgers?
Kershaw looks sharp. Ump is helping.
So far I’m seeing a little bit of sloppiness from the Padres.
What did I miss?
An RBI groundout from Seager, a buncha K’s by Kershaw.
Thanks. I was writing and lost track of time. Go Dodgers!
New novel? I presume it’s not a screenplay at this time.
Rewriting a television series treatment for a new group of execs. Like putting on a wet bathing-suit.
Thinking longue durée apparently.
Hope springs eternal. But hey, my Italian thriller will be in theaters in Italy this November!
Will it be available streaming? With subtitles? (My Italian is primitive).
That’s the plan. I promise to keep you posted.
What’s the title? Is it a spaghetti Western thriller?
“Security.” Based on the novel by Stephen Amidon. Set in Forte Dei Marmi. No spaghetti to be found.
I thought spaghetti grew on trees there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU
That’s what I was thinking.
Hahaha.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/dfd3516765d5e8173203bd70cda46024c14e0364924d4db526a9efc1cc19caf0.png
https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2020/film/news/director-peter-chelsom-on-his-italian-film-debut-security-toplining-gomorrah-star-marco-damore-1234631327/amp/
Here it is.
Almost missed this Hamilton reference. Lol.
Need three or four more runs, guys.
Eight or ten.
Where is everybody?
Good question.
That’s a start.
Really?
Defrock the Friars!
Does that have to do with your feeling about the franchise or your icon, or both?
Yes.