Dodgers at Cardinals, 4:45 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports Midwest, SPNLA
RHP Mitch White (1-2, 3.49 ERA) starts a bullpen game for the Dodgers. He’ll face RHP Adam Wainwright (14-7, 2.91 ERA) of the Cardinals.
On this day in Dodgers’ history:
- 1955 The Dodgers clinch their eighth National League pennant with a 10-2 victory over the Braves at Milwaukee’s County Stadium. Brooklyn’s 17-game lead makes it the earliest date that a team has captured a flag in baseball history.
- 1957 Before their departure to play on the West Coast for next season, the Dodgers and Giants face one another for the final time in New York. The Jints beat the Bums at the Polo Grounds, 3-2, to finish the intense 68 year-old storied rivalry with a 656-606 advantage over Brooklyn in the battle between the boroughs.
- 1967 The Mets, at the urging of their fans, honor former Dodger pitcher Sandy Koufax, who retired last season when arthritis ended his career prematurely at the age of 30. The Brooklyn-born southpaw, who threw a no-hitter against New York in 1962, started twenty games against the Amazin’s, compiling a 17-2 record that included 14 complete games and 5 shutouts.
- 2007 Alex Rodriguez, hitting his 50th and 51st home runs, joins Babe Ruth (1920-54, 1921-59, 1927-60, 1928-54), Roger Maris (1961-61), and Mickey Mantle (1956-52, 1961-54) to become only the fourth player in Yankee history to hit 50 or more homers in a single season. The Yankee infielder’s second homer breaks the major league mark of 49 homers hit by a third baseman, shared with Mike Schmidt (Phillies-1980) and Adrian Beltre (Dodgers-2004).
- 2017 The Dodgers, who just a couple of months ago seemed poised to challenge the major league record of 116 wins in a season, lose again, their 8th straight defeat and 13th in 14 games, as they bow to the Rockies, 5 – 4. They blow an early 4 – 1 lead as D.J. LeMahieu hits a two-run double in the 5th to put Colorado ahead to stay. On a positive note, Yu Darvish records the 1000th strikeout of his career, punching out Carlos Gonzalez in the 5th, becoming the fastest starting pitcher to reach the mark, in 812 innings over 128 games.
Lineup:
Today’s #Dodgers lineup at Cardinals: pic.twitter.com/Z8I79nkLmd
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 8, 2021
Kershaw apparently went 3 inning, 49 pitches in OKC yesterday. He gave up 2 runs, but his arm felt good. Could be back in the majors as soon as Sunday, but maybe will have one more rehab start.
Rockies just scored three runs in the 5th and lead the Giants, 3-0, after 5.
NPUT @ 0530 HST, 0830 PDT, 1130 EDT
Tomorrow. Need to get the win and claw back to only 1 game behind. Don’t need to fall back 2 games these days.
CT3 needs to keep it alive for a go-ahead banger by Albert.
It’s fine if Taylor does it himself.
Less of a story line.
I want a bottom of the ninth.
Bah.
Bad future person?
I was jumping the gun with no knowledge.
Dodger bats have gone from slugging to sluggish.
Please tell me one bad inning is not going to cost the Dodgers tonight.
¡Miércoles!
Sending Mookie was ill-advised.
Especially with only 1 out.
With two out, he’d have scored easily. In fairness, the Redbirds played it perfectly.
I haven’t kept track, but it seems that Ebel, our third base coach, has made too many mistakes in sending runners this year.
I’m not sure that’s the case.
I’m not sure it isn’t the case.
An anecdote is not proof.
That wasn’t an anecdote; that was based on more than 130 games of paying attention to Ebel’s work.
Speaking of proof, how come you smear the Giants with unproven accusations of usage of illegal substances again and again and again when they score runs, particularly when they hit homers? Where is your proof? If you wrote that stuff in a newspaper or magazine you’d be sued for libel.
It’s their track record, and especially notable when declining thirty-somethings suddenly turn it around.
Lots of 30-somethings have career years, and that’s been going on since long before steroids. Bonds was in a class by himself. No question there. But what other Giants have been implicated?
Regarding Bonds, this backs up your points and is from a 2017 Washington Post article: “Bonds admitted to using steroids after his personal trainer allegedly misled him into believing he was taking flaxseed oil and arthritis cream. Sworn testimony lists 1998 as the earliest known offense.”
He got his “best friend” to do time for him.
I do not disagree with you regarding Bonds, and I hope he never gets into the Hall of Fame.
He belongs in a cell.
Multiple thirty-somethings with simultaneous career years is especially notable. Among others, Guillermo Mota and Melky Cabrera – not to mention current starter Logan Webb (https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2019/5/1/18525575/sf-giants-prospect-logan-webb-suspended-80-games-after-positive-ped-test)
Also Bobby Estalella, Benito Santiago, Armando Ríos – all of them Gnats.
I will do some research on career years before the steroid era, but I have to take my dog for a walk now. More later.
4-3 Rockies in the 8th
Now going into the ninth.
Giants have taken a 5-4 lead in the 9th and have two on with none out.
Arrrgh!
Actually, Rox gifted the lead to the Gnats.
Giants just tied the Rockies, 3-3, in the 6th on a three-run homer by Crawford.
The emergency shipment of BALCO™ Flaxseed Oil arrived.
Giants-Rockies are scoreless after 4 1/2 this afternoon.