Dodgers at Padres, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports SD, SPNLA
RHP Walker Buehler (13-2, 2.11 ERA) goes for the visiting Dodgers. He’ll face LHP Blake Snell (6-5, 4.82 ERA).
On this day in Dodgers’ history:
- 1979 In a Hollywood Stars vs. the Media game played at Dodger Stadium, Robin Williams, the star of the hit television series, Mork and Mindy, a show in which he plays an alien, runs the bases backwards. The comedian explains circling the bags clockwise is very common on the Planet Ork, his character’s home in the universe.
- 1995 At Veterans Stadium, Gregg Jefferies hits for the cycle when Philadelphia crushes the Dodgers, 17-4. The Phillies’ first baseman, who has four RBIs and scores four runs, collects all of his extra-base hits off of LA starting pitcher Hideo Nomo.
- 2008 After being swept in a four-game series earlier in the month in L.A., the Phillies return the favor, beating the Dodgers, 5-0, to complete its own four-game sweep. It is the first time in franchise history that Philadelphia has swept the Dodgers in a four-game series at home.
- 2009 With a 5-4 win in ten innings over the Dodgers, the Rockies move 18 games over .500 for the first time in franchise history. The wild-card leader, winning 52 of their last 74 games, the latest on a Troy Tulowitzki bases-loaded single, has cut LA’s Western Division lead from 15.5 games on June 3 to just two games.
- 2012 In a nine-player blockbuster trade, the Dodgers obtain Adrian Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, Nick Punto, and cash considerations for James Loney, Allen Webster, Ivan De Jesus, Jr., and two players to be named later (Rubby De La Rosa and Jerry Sands). The deal gives the new Dodgers ownership an opportunity to show their fans they are serious about making a run for the postseason, while giving an under-performing Boston team more financial flexibility in the offseason.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup at Padres: pic.twitter.com/MFMo4zt9hn
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 25, 2021
That was an epic. It also, despite the abominable ghost runner rule, made a strong case for abolishing the DH.
Had to turn the game off around the 13th. Couldn’t sleep anyway. It’s a lovely morning!
I swear that I dreamt the Dodgers won 5-3.
So, you dreamt without sleeping?
I stayed awake to the not bitter end and, after walking the dog and doing the grocery shopping this morning, I’m ready for a nap.
NPUT
The ESPN replay of this game is scheduled for 4:00am here. I can watch it again. LOL
Sure, after a 30-second nap.
These games wreak havoc in batting averages.
Max is slumping.
0 for 7 with 2 K’s
Come on Max.
I’d like one more at least please.
Thanks, Tatis.
Prediction: Whoever wins this wins tomorrow’s game.
Ay yi yi.
0 for 11 RISP
Kenleys’ one thousandth strikeout.
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I feel asleep for 5 minutes. Lol. So tired but so curious about this game.
How was your procedure?
Went very smooth. First time having a colonoscopy. Just didn’t love having to drink the special drink from 3am-5am in the morning.
No option for a semi-colonoscopy?
Those are not as comma place.
Oh snap.
Kershaw getting closer, Betts and Kelly real close.
Kelly onboard, Victor sent down.
So they are keeping Bruihl as the second lefty behind Vesia. Victor needs to work on things.
For a guy who doesn’t throw all that hard, Bruihl’s been impressive. He has command, and seems imperturbable.
I think I would have started Uncle Albert and sat Belli against the lefty Snell.
Put Turner in CF? Played there when he first came up.
Robin Williams was not the first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waly8TRjGT8
Good morning, Winnipeg Dave!
Proud of our team. G’night all.
Doc had a lot to do with this win.
I’m in exhausted but happy shock!
4:00am here. 6 hour game. Probably the longest game of the year in MLB.
You are a trooper Ohio Dodger.
I’m a night person. Worked 3rd shift for a number of years.
Even so…
Best win of the season!
No doubt!
Woo-HOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
BALLGAME!!!!!! Goodnight.
Greene didn’t look green.
He looked really good.
Luckily Scherzer going tomorrow. Probably good for at least 7 innings.
One more, please!
Two!
There’s one!
What an ERA for Green.
Very small sample size. He’s had good years, but he just needs to have a good inning now.
Roger that.
At this rate we’ll still be playing when Winnipeg Dave wakes up.
Please end it now!
Hosmer Pham and Frazier.
Oh My.
Can we just have a quiet half-inning, please?
Roberts has used his bench better than Tingler.
He completely outmaneuvered Tingler.
Mookie coming back tomorrow. Lux probably going back to OKC.
Last chance for glory.
Came close.
Close, but not to be.
Make them pay Belli.
Man on second legitimately!
Taylor, get revenge.
Avenged.
OK, but don’t stop now!
That feels… hopeful?
Yeah, but Shane Greene is the last reliever standing.
Can Knebel go two?
AJ!!!!
Thanks to an awful rule, this is a game I won’t be able to forget.
Hey, we’re going to put the leadoff man on second in the 16th!
Why are these games with the Padres so hard?
One reason: San Diego lived in the the shadow of Los Angeles, barely an afterthought, for decades, they hate us.
Also they were jealous for years and years.
When I was a kid in L.A., the only thing I knew about San Diego was its zoo.
The first time I drove there I missed the exit and wound up in Mexico.
Ha! Couldn’t happen these days.
That’s for darn sure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEdj8J-Wods
We need about ten runs to put this one away.
And… on to the 16th. Absurd.
Had it in his glove.
Oh no. I wasn’t watching.
Butchered it. Should have caught it.
Extremely difficult play. It was a legitimate HR.
I wonder how Mookie would have handled it. Oh well.
Did Taylor knock it over the fence off his glove?
Yes
OMG!
He must be dying inside.
It was a very difficult play.
A play that Bellinger would make.
I believe so.
Knebel has not been himself since he came back.
This game will never end.
I feel sick.
Oh my.
NO!!
Good grief. Freaking dropped the ball.
Mookies’ dancing. Hip must be feeling good.
Can he pinch hit since it’s tomorrow?
Good one. I don’t see why not.
Hopefully no need.
For sure.
I’m afraid it doesn’t work that way.
Have fun with it.
I hope that’s enough.
Should be. If it’s not, I am going to cry.
Get out the Kleenex.
Puffs
“The floodgates have opened.” – Joe Davis
Well, maybe not floodgates but a small stream.
The faucet has been turned on…
And the well is dry.
Yeah! 3-1!
Okay Trea. Your turn.
What was that?
He broke the log jam! 2-1!
Finger is out of the dike.
Billy could be our hero here!
Billy Ball!
Argh.
Dodger pitchers are no-hitting Pads since the fifth.
Wow. That’s nine innings of no-hit ball.
A no-hitter!
So Dodgers get a hit with runner in scoring position and can’t even move him to third.
Come on, Will, hit another HR.
Ten straight times these two teams have had a man on second with none out and failed to score. I doubt that will ever happen again under this strange rule.
I am ready to be done with this rule.
I am with you. The rule makes a mockery of the game and both teams are making a mockery of that mockery.
Well put, Scoop.
Thanks
Not likely.
We can do that too.
This game is soul-crushing. I’m heading upstairs for bed.
I hope you see a victory when you awaken.
Teeth brushed. Peeked. I’m baaaaack.
I want to, but I just can’t.
– – – -!
hana lepo
Holy cow are we bad tonight.
The Pads have been worse.
Really? How so?
Something like 0-for-25.
Yep. Meaningless.
Yeah, a man on second really speeds things up.
Bah. Orel likes that rule, I hate it.
I hate it as well.
Why CT3 instead of Seager?
They’d rather face a RHH.
Ah, “right.”
I am feeling fatalistic.
Ready for bed.
Useless.
JT, that was right there honey.
I think we are going to score many runs now.
Scoring? What is this scoring of which you speak?
I’d rather than Dodgers score them.
We’re in vacation in Hawaii. I don’t think my wife is crazy about my disappearing act tonight. I turned on the game in the 10th or 11th inning. That seems a lifetime ago.
This, the silent swearing.
Yeah, but it’s only 10 pm there. Say hi to Link for us, if he can have visitors (and you’re in Honolulu).
It’s actually 847
“If I can have visitors?” I’ve been home for months!
Anderson’s ERA is over 9.
Meaningless.
Who have we got up in the 14th? (Can’t believe I’m writing that.)
Muncy on second, then 3-4-5 hitters.
My plan was to get an early night tonight…
Brewster!
OH BABY!
Just pour in the fast ball now
This is beyond unfair on Brusdar.
NOW those are BALLS!?!?!
Don’t go 3-1
Have to leave the room again
Throw strikes
oh man
Bases loaded. Yikes. Get the first one over
Nope
What a mind game this is.
Not feeling good about this AB.
Me neither.
And yet…
No?
I’m tempted to call it quits here. Too painful.
I won’t sleep anyway.
Gnats laughing their butts off.
But, we’ll get the last laugh. HaHa
That’s the spirit, Ohio D!
Why not? They almost never lose.
Bizarrely true.
1 for 15 RISP. Unacceptable.
Truly.
Oh poor Graterol. Not looking good for him and he cares so deeply.
Man on third with none out in how many consecutive innings now without scoring?
A kazillion.
That just plain sucks bigtime. We are breaking records for bad extra inning behavior right and left. It’s almost impossible to be this ineffective.
This is beyond belief.
Futility!
I am thinking of another word that begins with “f”.
Farce?
Not quite
He didn’t hold him. He protected against him.
Agreed
This is wearing me out.
Exxxxxxxhausting. One of those games where it seems we are playing under an unlucky star.
Incredibly bad luck continues.
What the heck was that?
Don’t hit it to Machado.
Don’t hit it to Machado.
Winnipeg Dave snoozing peacefully through all of this.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Already it’s 0-2
He likes 0-2.
Prove me wrong, Trea!
I’m not impressed with Trea in these moments.
How many line drives have we hit to no effect?
Beaty scorched that.
How unlucky can we be? Amazing that Belli didn’t get tagged out there.
If they don’t score here…
Come on Matt. Give us a chance.
Belli doesn’t flop.
Funny underswing single.
Two hits tonight.
GO DODGERS.
Belli gets a single!
I wonder how many times the Dodgers have gone 11 innings and not allowed an earned run and not won.
Lucky that Caratini is not fast.
Another lazy fly ball. Need just one more to reach the 12th.
Big play there. Don’t run on Bellinger’s arm.
He didn’t make a great throw, but you can’t take the risk.
True and true.
His reputation precedes him.
I’d like to look away, but I can’t.
I’m tired of this game, but man. I still want to win it.
Smith blew it on that last pitch. Tried to put it out of the park. Should have stroked it.
Unbelievable. Anything else I would say is quite profane.
Oh it’s all happening in my living-room.
This is testing my Spanish-language cursing.
How many chances can they blow? Bases loaded, no runs?
Pathetic.
horrible
Horrendous futuring.
I apologize. I’m just the messenger.
Oh goodness. 3-2. Yikefest.
3-0. Wow.
Here comes Will.
Lay a sour gherkin on them Dill.
Nowhere to put him at least.
My stomach is a sour gherkin.
This guy is NOT that good a pitcher!
What a waste so far!
Really frustrating and unnecessary.
Up to CT3.
We don’t deserve this one after these last two outs.
Very bad baserunning.
Yeah – I think Muncy could have made it back to third there easily. It’s like he forgot where he was.
Tootblan
Why didn’t Muncy just stay where he was?
Good take, JT! Man on first, man on third.
I’m liking our chances of winning this one.
I’m still on the fence.
Not anymore.
My like just went to mild infatuation.
And now doubt.
I started with doubt and have slid into despair.
If CT3 doesn’t come thru, I will be joining you.
Despair it is. And agony is next if we lose the game.
I’m too tired for agony.
Disgust?
Depression.
That works. I will be very depressed if we lose this one.
A slough of despond.
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I think Muncy would have scored if he had caught it.
If he touched it in fair ground…
I think that ball was fair!
Sure looked like it.
He whacked it with his glove!
Way foul, I think.
Call stands.
Closer than I thought.
JT can’t score on that dropped foul ball?
Adams demolishing that piece of gum.
Get us an RBI JT!
Or two!
Runner advances to third. Could happen!
Runner advances to third. Could happen!
Good strategy by Roberts, good pitching by Bickford.
Adams looks a bit… intense.
Tightrope walked
WOW!!!
At least the ump is missing calls against both teams.
Gutsy, but bad for my gut.
I can’t watch.
I bet you’ll peek. LOL
I had to walk upstairs to watch with my husband on his iPad.
To pitch or not to pitch to Manny. Not.
Walk the next two and pitch to the pitchers spot.
Yep. That’s what they are doing.
That helps even more.
Kink got bigger.
Oh man, a moment made for Tatis.
That helps.
Puts a little kink in the hose.
Just a small one.
Bickford’s turn to sweat.
Top of their order. I’m not feeling a win for us here…
We’re hosed.
Hahaha. Thanks fir the laugh at least.
Gameday decided that ball Max hit was a line drive. Uh, no.
Hey Link!
Hey!
This guy is more of a slinger than a pitcher.
Belli is pitiful. Geez.
Well, this pitcher is very hard to pick up, to be fair.
Extra innings? Ruh-roh!
No idea what that means.
Astro from The Jetsons and Scooby Doo from the eponymous show.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ruh-roh
First I’ve ever heard of it. Still doesn’t tell me what it means.
https://twitter.com/jonweisman/status/1430761833422483456?s=20
Poor Vesia. Tough way to come on.
We’ll see what he is made of at least.
Nerves of STEEL!!!!
A will of IRON!!!!
¡Todavía miércoles!
Oh well. That might be it for us.
Well dang. Up to Will.
He’ll get walked.
Maybe a WP (after that one)!
With Belli on deck. I would walk him.
Swung at what looked like ball three, but with this Ump who knows?
Outside strike strikes again. Strike one.
Better than nothing. Runner at third. But two runs would be nice here.
Kenleys’ one thousandth strikeout.
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Kenley sharper than he was last night.
Nike k Kenley.
The clock has struck midnight for me. I can’t keep my eyes open any longer.
Bring it on home Dodgers.
Worrisome w Will catching Kenley.
Two more Kenley.
Easy out on Machado at least.
Nervous time.
Surprised to see Kenley, who threw lotsa pitches last night.
1 pitch out helps.
Rats.
¡Miércoles!
This is not what I had in mind.
This game is so easy if everything you throw is called a “strike”.
Really obnoxious pitcher.
Another bad call.
Melançon might be my most loathed Pad.
What’s with this side-to-side waggle he’s doing?
Has to pee.
He has the facial expression of a sociopath.
Him or Machado. A toss up.
Time to explode here Dodgers!
Treinen hits the trifecta, three pop ups.
Another crap strike call.
Albert gets rung up on a ball.
Same ump that blew the check swing call in the Giants game.
That’s it for Blake Snell.
122 pitches for Snell.
But also, no L for Walker!
Mr. Smith loves the high fastball!
A Willy Dilly.
WILL!!!!
You did it!
OK, future people, get to work!
How’s that?
No W for Buehler. Not tonight.
https://twitter.com/billplunkettocr/status/1430744196822884365?s=20
Doc looking for bear.
That error is looming very large.
As is the catch of Seager’s long drive.
Running out of time.
But not love.
Beatles got it wrong. We need more than love. We need runs.
That one was a strike at least.
Ump helped Snell there bigtime.
Can’t believe Snell tonight. Just our luck. Pitching like a champ.
Also getting the benefit of bad calls.
For reals.
New pitching coach!
Nice K, Walker!
I’m thinking Mookie should be moved back to lead off and Trea should hit second. Thoughts?
Lots of good options but yes I would have Mookie bat leadoff.
Phooey. But at least Belli got a hit!
Your futuring is sub-par tonight.
As is the offense.
Lotta Dodger fans there.
Need a clutch hit Maxy.
Agreed.
Nice bunt by Buehler (though I think Belli coulda stolen it).
Holy Cow!! Belli got a hit.
6th inning. Time to get Snell out of there.
Whew. That was close.
Phew.
These soft singles are killing me.
Death by paper cuts.
I’d love us to get Buehler W # 14 here!
Really has pitched well. Defense let him down.
Cheap weak-contact hit by Myers wasn’t his fault either.
Happened too many times this year – the unearned runs via unforced errors.
Slow at the plate. Slow on here.
Snell’s pitching does not match his ERA.
Unfortunately. We really struggle against lefties.
Mookie’s return should help with that.
Can’t hurt.
Also Snell much better at home.
A little less sharp that last half inning.
I assume his last inning here.
Great play by J. Turner.
Robbed.
Not sure that one woulda been out, but Seager’s earlier one for sure.
Woulda been out in our stadium.
Quite possibly, but if Grisham had missed the catch it woulda stayed in the park (unless he did the full Canseco). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QixQMUu4CKI
Yes.
If you like pitching…
and leather.
¡Miércoles! (de verdad).
Wil grabbing dirt and rubbing his hands is a rare sight these days.