NLDS Games Two, 2021

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On this date in baseball history there were batting championship shenanigans in 1910, Woodrow Wilson became the first President to watch a World Series game in 1915, in 1919 the White Sox lost the last game and the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds amidst unsavory rumors of a fix, the Orioles beat the Dodgers 1-0 in Game Four and swept the 1966 World Series, and much more.

The early game: Braves at Brewers, 2:07 PM PDT, TV: TBS

LHP Max Fried (14-7, 3.04 ERA) takes the hill for the Braves. He’ll face the Brewers’ RHP Brandon Woodruff (9-10, 2.56 ERA). The Brewers are up 1-0 in the series.

The second game: Dodgers at Giants, 6:07 PM PDT, TV: TBS

The Dodgers hand the ball to their 20-game winner and dark-horse Cy Young candidate LHP Julio Urías (20-3, 2.96 ERA). The Giants counter with RHP Kevin Gausman (14-6, 2.81 ERA). The Giants are up 1-0 in the series.

Lineups when available.

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379 thoughts on “NLDS Games Two, 2021”

  3. Biggest decision that Doc may have at this point is whether to use the normal reliever rotation. Guess he goes with them to avoid rust with tomorrow’s day off.

  6. Why is it again that the Dodgers seemingly score more runs on nights Urias pitches?

  21. In Beertown, Adames has made a phenomenal running catch on a foul ball, just before crashing into the tarp. Worth checking the highlight.

  31. Dodgers will take the lead in this series tonight – based on Pythagorean record, that is.

  48. I returned to the TV after Trea doubled. I am nominating that half-inning for an Emmy. Can you help with that, RBI?

  64. It was the Giants making the plays yesterday and won; it’s the Dodgers making the plays today and winning.

  101. l am taking a page from RBI — no insult attended — and following this game on the Internet.
    Anyway, all of your comments are more entertaining that watching Hernandez (fail to) call balls and strikes.

  106. I have a friend in Chile who’s a huge Beerboys fan (native of Milwaukee). I won a bet with him when Belli edged out Yelich for MVP. He owes me a dinner at the best restaurant in Futaleufú, but haven’t been able to collect yet. Meanwhile, we’re both mutually rooting for our personal favorites until they face each other.

      • Braun cheated Kemp out of the MVP Award in 2011 and threw the “little people” under the bus en route.

          • Neither could I until I looked it up. I was with a friend at a spring training game that year, watching the Dodgers at the Brewers game. A guy sitting next to us, a big Milwaukee fan, said his brother was a doctor and knew that Braun was definitely on the juice. A woman sitting behind him, a big Brewers’ fan, went bananas and started giving the guy all she had.

  107. I do not advise the Dodgers to lose this game but my 11 year old self wants to remind me that the Dodgers won a Ws after falling in an 0-2 hole vs the Astros in the 1981 DS.

    • Ok, though Pollock scored the go-ahead run. He was walked intentionally yes, but after laying off two pitches.

  118. Bellinger’s time between meaningful hits seems longer than an elephant’s gestation period (about two years).

  122. I am umpiring a 30-and-over baseball game tomorrow morning. If my strike/ball zone is like Angel’s, I should be fired.`

    • From Wikipedia:

      On April 8, 2019, Boston University published a study on 11 seasons of Major League Baseball data, almost 4 million pitches analyzed, to determine the accuracy of balls and strikes called. The study found that Hernández performed stronger in 2018 than his average for 2008–2018. He averaged 19 incorrect calls a game, or 2.2 per inning. Even with this high error rate, compared to his peers, he performed better than others, escaping the 2018 Bottom 10 MLB list.[13]

  152. I’d be fine if Dodgers start another 8 game winning streak tonight, before having another 1 game losing streak.

  176. I believe tonight is as close to a must win as you can get unless it is a one and done scenario. Win tonight and we have the advantage. Lose and we are in deep kimchi.

  178. That was a great photo posted a couple of days ago showing Carl Erskine and Duke Snider celebrating Brooklyn’s only World Championship in 1955. While attending several Dodgers Fantasy Camps in Vero Beach, I got to know both of them, Erskine much more so than the more reticent Snider. When they were teammates, the Snider and Erskine families used to rent a big house together near the beach during spring training in Vero Beach. Each family had four children. Erskine and Snider also roomed together on the road. At the dinners each night at the fantasy camps, Carl and his wife, Betty, and Duke and his wife, Bev, usually sat together along with the Erskines’ son Jimmy, who has Down Syndrome. Duke’s health was starting to fade over the course of the camps that I attended, but Carl remained robust. Snider died in 2011 at the age of 84. Erskine will turn 95 in December. At the camps, particularly as Snider’s health declined, Erskine had his back. I remember one Hot Stove League locker room gathering, when rain prevented us from taking the fields, during which Erskine stood behind the seated Snider as the players discussed their careers. Here’s an interview with Erskine on NPR shortly after Duke died: https://www.npr.org/2011/02/28/134141588/Remember-Baseball-Legend-Duke-Snider