Padres at Dodgers, 7:00 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports San Diego, SPNLA
The visitors send RHP Yu Darvish (1-1, 2.55 ERA) to the hill to face the Dodgers’ LHP Clayton Kershaw (3-1, 2.19 ERA). These two guys met last Saturday and Darvish gave up just one hit and struck out nine. Despite that, Kershaw and the Dodgers beat him 2-0.
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1958 In a 7-6 loss to Chicago at the LA Coliseum, two Dodger mainstays from Brooklyn reach career milestones. First baseman Gil Hodges, who will finish his 18-year major league tenure with 370 home runs, hits his 300th career round-tripper, and Captain Pee Wee Reese, a future Hall of Fame shortstop, plays in his 2000th game.
- 1999 Fernando Tatis becomes the only player in baseball history to hit two grand slams in one inning when he collects eight RBIs in one frame to breaks the old record of six. The Cardinal third baseman hits both off Dodger starter Chan Ho Park in an 11-run third of the team’s 12-5 victory at Chavez Ravine.
- 2000 The Dodgers complete a sweep of the Reds to notch their 1,000th win over baseball’s oldest professional franchise. Since 1970, Los Angeles is the only National League franchise to play over .500 ball (120-115) in Cincinnati (Riverfront Stadium/Cinergy Field).
Lineup when available.
NPUT
Beating of Barnes will continue until morale improves.
Who is Neuse? In German, “of uncertain origin. Possibly a nickname from dialect neusen ‘to eat on the sly’.”
If I believed in the baseball gods I would believe they had it in for our team right now.
That’s the comfort of being an atheist.
Not vintage Kersh tonight. Hopefully he can grind it out and keep us in the game. Offense needs to show up at some point and take some pressure off the pitching staff.
Manny with a bleeder, but then Hosmer comes through!
DJ welcome, though sorry you had to come.
Boy, that sucked.
I stopped watching. Night all.
Nite.
What’s wrong with Knebel?
Charlie and Rick seem to think elbow.
Oh man. That’s terrible news.
It doesn’t sound good.
Not feeling a comeback is likely. Hope I’m proven wrong.
Bah humbug.
Running out of time.
I don’t believe this.
Takes great plays to stop us, so there is that.
Not a guy Yu want to face.
Ha! Good one.
Neuse in a suddenly familiar position.
Now Ríos swings…
Again bad umpiring.
No, it was a catch.
But a very weak and delayed call by the umpire at third.
It was Kershaw’s mistake.
I want blame! Not reason!
Bad baserunning.
Good lord these guys are frustrating.
Salt in wound department, Charlie and Rick have to bring up his dad hitting the 2 grand slams in an inning. A record that will unfortunately probably never be equaled.
I cringe to think that, because of Sunday’s ESPN blackout, I’ll have to listen to the Spanish-language broadcast.
Normally in the early days down by two was no big thang.
Slip sliding awayyyy.
Tatis is killing us tonight!
Shoulda walked him. Dang it!!!!!
Make it 21 hits in 49 innings now. I will be taking a mental health break now, watching the game later. Bring home a win, you all.
By my calculations, the Dodgers now have 21 hits in their last 48 innings (including the first three tonight).
Sweet inning, Kershaw.
Rios was looking for something else.
A ball?
A message from above?
He could take a page out of Clayton’s book and just be annoying.
Rios! Really? Three pitches right in the zone past you. What exactly were you waiting for?
Perhaps if I say something cutting about Rios, he would get a hit. Consider this somewhat cutting.
Ríos has a track record, and I expect him to be a contributor – despite that AB.
And I have a deed to the Brooklyn (Dodgers) Bridge. Rios looks totally lost at the plate. Shouldn’t be in the No. 5 hole. I want him to prove me wrong.
These things even out. Ideally, he’d be a bench bat, but remember the lesson of Neuse.
That’s why I am egging Rios on. (Not entirely truthful there.)
Turner takes one down the middle.
So far tonight, the strike zone’s not been so bad.
Geeze Louise II
Grrrrrrr-isham.
Can’t give them first pitch fastballs down the middle, Kersh. They’re waiting for that.
Color me irritated.
Dodgers are missing Quique, who could fill in at many positions.
From last night: I want to offer my apologies to Sheldon Neuse for what I said about his failure to hit the ball much in first five ABs as a Dodger. I didn’t post this last night, not because I felt shame, but because I tape many of the games and watch them on hurry-up mode later on.
On Mr. Neuse’s behalf, I accept.
Thank you, sir. If his hard shot in the 8th (?) had gone through, I would be eating considerable crow.
If it had gotten past Cronenworth, I think it would’ve gone all the way to the wall.
He smacked the ball pretty well last night.
I’m not convinced he’s ready, but he does appear to have an upside.
Geeze Louise.
On the bright side, Kershaw’s pitch count is low.
That’s more like it!
Fine catch by Mookie.
Zach Mac to the IL.
DJ (Donald Scott) Peters becomes the 12 player from the Dodgers 2016 to make the Bigs.
Spilt Milk Dept.: 12 of 16 missed calls last night went against the Dodgers. Indirect effects not measured, but likely that Dodger batters were as well induced to swing at balls out of the zone that they might otherwise have let go. https://twitter.com/umpscorecards/status/1385617344970432512?s=21
Boo-hoo!
Boo-hoo!