Game 48, 2021

Dodgers at Astros, 5:10 PM PDT, TV: ATT SportsNet SW, FS1, SPNLA

Two former aces and teammates face one another as the Dodgers send LHP Clayton Kershaw (6-3, 3.18 ERA) to the hill to face RHP Zack Greinke (4-1, 3.77 ERA). When they were on the same staff between 2013-2015 Greinke won 51 games and Kershaw won 53.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1919 Casey Stengel, traded by the Dodgers in the off-season to the Pirates, calls time, steps out of the batter’s box to give the razzing Ebbets Field fans the ‘bird’. The Pittsburgh right fielder doffs his hat, allowing a sparrow to fly out, much to the amazement and amusement of the fans.
  • 2002 With four homers on Thursday (5/23), one on Friday (5/24), and two more on Saturday (5/25), Shawn Green becomes the first major leaguer to hit seven round-trippers in three games. The Dodger outfielder’s nine big flies in a week also breaks a National League record, established by Ralph Kiner with eight and tied by Ted Kluszewski and Nate Colbert.
  • 2002 Getting his 3,509th K, Diamondback southpaw Randy Johnson passes Walter Johnson to become seventh on the all-time career strikeout list. After fanning Shawn Green in the first to catch the ‘Big Train’, Dodger outfielder Brian Jordan swings and misses a 2-2 pitch in the second inning to become the ‘Big Unit’s’ historic victim.

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123 thoughts on “Game 48, 2021

  1. Yippee!! Beat the cheaters and fraud WS champs. Title should have been stripped. Players should have been suspended. The comish screwed up big time. There is no way in a logical scenario that they should have been allowed to keep the title.

  2. I get so mad when the ump won’t call a strike on the outside corner a strike and then the next pitch gets hit for a single because the pitcher has to throw it closer to the middle…

  3. See that Bickford is trying to fill Dustin May’s shoes – in terms of the volume of hair. Tough shoes to fill however!

      • Thank you! Couldn’t find the right word so just went with shoes. I guess baseball cap could have worked but shower cap is perfect.

  4. Dodgers win.

    1/2 game behind the Padres and tied in terms of run differential at +79.

  5. Bickford was a first round pick (bick?) by the Blue Jays in 2013, but he didn’t sign. He was a first round pick by the Giants in 2015 and did sign. In five innings at OKC this year he had allowed three earned runs.

        • I never really knew Jerry. Didn’t hear Dodger games until very late in his career on MLB radio. Except for the 1988 World Series…

          And by “his” I meant Scully!

          • Jerry was pretty good. If I remember correctly, Vinnie did the first three innings and the last three innings and Jerry did the middle three. Jerry also did the pre-game interviews and I think the post-game interviews. After he retired he moved about an hour from where we live. I thought of trying to visit him, but I didn’t and he passed away in 1997 at the age of 80, ten years after he retired. Doggett worked with Scully for 32 seasons, starting in Brooklyn.

        • I never really knew Jerry. Didn’t hear Dodger games until very late in his career on MLB radio. Except for the 1988 World Series…

          And by “his” I meant Scully!

    • I know this is not what you are looking for but he is exactly the pitcher you have to close out a 9-1 game in the 9th inning.

      Or he better close out this game…

      • I wonder what the rule on that is because unless he goes on the IL – that’s a sneaky way to get around the 3 batter rule. Oh, he is “injured” so we need to bring in a different pitcher.

        Not saying the Astros would ever cheat the system, but…

  6. I get so mad when the ump won’t call a strike on the outside corner a strike and then the next pitch gets hit for a single because the pitcher has to throw it closer to the middle…

  7. Beerboys blew a bases-loaded opportunity in the fifth, and still trail the Pads 2-0.

  8. I am feeling like a kid. An hour in and the game is almost half over.

  9. Thanks to Milwaukee misplays, the Pads lead the Beerboys 2-0 in the fourth.

    • Bill Plunkett notes that the Alvarez swing and miss on the curve ball was more than Kershaw got throwing 51 breaking pitches in game 5 of the 2017 WS. Hmmm.

  10. Just realized the Dodgers would have to win another 13 games in a row in order to be 42-18. Which would be still 1 game behind the 43-17 they finished last year.

    • Current winning percentage of .617, would have been almost enough to have led the NL and won the West Division last year