Game 69, 2021

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Dodgers at Diamondbacks, 6:40 PM, TV: Bally Sports Arizona, SPNLA

The Dodgers’ RHP Trevor Bauer (6-5, 2.64 ERA) takes the mound in Phoenix, where he’ll face the D-Backs’ LHP Caleb Smith (2-2, 3.61 ERA).

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1938 After accepting GM Larry MacPhail’s offer to coach first base, Babe Ruth wears a Dodger uniform for the first time as a coach and takes batting practice with the team. The ‘Bambino’ will quit at the end of the season, ending his ties with major league baseball.
  • 1940 Dodger Ducky Medwick, acquired in a trade less than a week ago, is beaned by former Cardinal teammate Bob Bowman and needs to be carried off the field on a stretcher. Brooklyn president Lee MacPhail accuses the St. Louis pitcher of deliberately hitting Medwick in the head because the two had quarreled in a hotel elevator prior to the game.
  • 1996 Brant Brown hits the first three home runs of his career on the same day. The 25 year-old rookie goes deep as a pinch-hitter in the ninth inning off Chan Ho Park in a 9-6 loss to the Dodgers in the opener of a Wrigley Field twin bill, but his two additional round-trippers contribute to Chicago’s 7-4 victory in the nightcap.
  • 2014 With the only batter reaching base as a result of a throwing error by shortstop Hanley Ramirez in the seventh inning, Clayton Kershaw no-hit the Rockies at Dodger Stadium, striking out a career-high 15 batters. The left-hander’s teammate Josh Beckett also threw a no-hitter 24 days ago, making it the shortest span between no-hitters by a team since the Reds’ Johnny Vander Meer accomplished it in consecutive starts, four days apart, in 1938.

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76 thoughts on “Game 69, 2021”

  2. Missed the game entirely, but at least there were some highlights. Souza’s dinger was a real screamer,

  3. Walker Buehler vs. Matt Peacock tomorrow night. Here’s what one of the sites says about Peacock: “Peacock, who has been thrust into rotation duty due to injuries, will look to turn around what has been a rough June. In three starts this month, Peacock has allowed nine earned runs in 11 1/3 innings.” Peacock is right-handed. He’s 2-4 with an ERA of 5.26.

  4. I want the Dodgers to sweep the DBacks and then I want the Dbacks to win a bunch because they look really really depressed.

    • I was listening to one of the Giants’ announcers tonight — I think it was former player Javy Lopez (the pitcher) — and he was saying how hard it is when you are that far back, 24 1/2 games before today, when you get to the ballpark. Even if Arizona wins 20 in a row, depending on what the first-place team does, they won’t really get close, he said.

      • Must be hard to run onto the field after a while. That balk the ump called was brutal.

          • Yeah, but it came because the pitcher slipped and put his mitt down to keep from falling. A weird one.

          • Tough luck for a team that didn’t need any more…I am in my 19th year of umpiring youth ball (and some adult games). The balk call (or non-call) is the toughest decision to make.

  9. Save number 329 for Jansen. He ties Francisco Cordero for 16th all time. He is one behind John Wetteland for 15th.

  14. I realise I haven’t been following the games super closely this year when a player I have never heard of opens the scoring tonight

  25. Maybe Bauer is just the Dodgers tough luck pitcher. 6-5 record with a low era.

  29. Unlike the England v Scotland (go Scots!), I’m pretty sure that this one won’t end 0-0.

  32. In the Bay Area, and perhaps elsewhere, tonight’s Phillies-Giants game is on Peacock.

  34. My participation tonight, if any, will be limited. We have out-of-state guests (Dutch and Brazilian), and will be going out to dinner.