Phillies at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: NBCSP, SPNLA
Walker Buehler is taking Clayton Kershaw’s spot in the rotation today. Why? Kershaw’s got an inflammation in the sacroiliac joint in his pelvis. “The Dodgers placed the three-time Cy Young Award winner on the injured list Friday due to inflammation in his SI joint.” They’re not yet sure how long he might be out.
The Phillies send RHP Kyle Gibson (3-1, 2.94 ERA) to the mound to face the Dodgers’ RHP Walker Buehler (4-1, 1.96 ERA).
Expected batting averages far exceed actual ones this season: why?
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1947 During the pregame infield practice, a barrage of racial slurs is directed at Jackie Robinson by the Cincinnati fans during the Dodgers’ first visit to Crosley Field this season. Brooklyn shortstop Pee Wee Reese, captain of the team and a Southerner from Kentucky with friends attending the game, engages the black infielder in conversation, and then put his arm around his teammate’s shoulder, a gesture that stuns and silences the crowd.
Statue of Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese outside MCU Park, 08/02/10: zoom-lens close-up of Pee Wee’s arm around Jackie (IMG_1908)
Photo from Flickr by Gary Dunaier - 1952 Larry Miggins hits the first of his two major league home runs, going deep off Preacher Roe in the fourth inning of the Cardinals’ 14-8 loss to the Dodgers at Ebbets Field. The round-tripper hit by the Bronx-born outfielder, who had once shared his dream of playing in big leagues during a prep school assembly with a buddy with aspirations to be a baseball broadcaster, is called by an overwhelmed Vin Scully, Brooklyn’s play-by-play announcer who had wondered that day with his friend “what the odds against that would be.”
- 1958 San Francisco teammates Willie Mays and Darryl Spencer each have four long hits, driving in four and six runs, respectively, in the team’s 16-9 victory over the Dodgers at LA’s Memorial Coliseum. The Giants’ center fielder and shortstop combine for 28 total bases, with Mays hitting two homers, two triples, a single, and Spencer adding two round-trippers, a three-bagger, and a double to the offensive outburst.
- 2013 Thanks to a seventh-grade history class project, a three-mile stretch of the Kansas K-79 highway, from K-16 highway to Circleville, is designated by the Kansas legislature as the Barnes Brothers Memorial Highway in honor of Ozzie and Virgil, who grew up in the community and played with the Braves, Giants, and Dodgers in the 1910-20s. The McAlister middle schoolers’ research brought to light the many major league accomplishments of the two siblings, including being participants in first brother matchup in big league history.
Lineups when available.
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Really really dumb.
https://twitter.com/MLBONFAX/status/1525370203009212417?s=20&t=j9ApwuT0CnJGodBK6EooQw
Deja vu all over again. Or not!
Good grief. Now Roberts puts in Kimbrel.
Yeah. Why not last night when we were tied?
Clayton’s status. https://twitter.com/THEREAL_DV/status/1525243143045558272?s=20&t=WzmJlV_1Id9b–BcAb0WsQ
These things, history has demonstrated, last longer than expected.
Our vaunted pitching has hit a sink hole.
Ferris is not at his sharpest tonight. .149 hitter has 3 RBI.
And so it goes.
Max scores the Mook! A lucky hack in this case!
Hard-hit liner, I’d say – 100 MPH.
Yeah but he had to reach across the plate and swing a bit wildly to get it. He’s strong.
Gold Glove play by Freeman! Probably woulda been two runs but, in the end, it didn’t matter.
If Muncy is batting clean up Saturday, I think I will watch Sesame Street highlights.
Night of the Living Dead Clean Up Hitter.
Dodgers picking up last years theme of not being good in extra innings.
Ump blew it.
Take it from someone who has umpired 56 games this season —and I mean no disrespect to anyone — but umps make mistakes. I know that I sure have.
Disappointment again.
Drat
Worst strike call of the night.
Ump really screwed us on that one.
https://twitter.com/FabianArdaya/status/1525361906193944576?s=20&t=WzmJlV_1Id9b–BcAb0WsQ
Trea time.
Still got a pulse.
Mookie has killed us a lot this season.
Don’t let us down now, Freddie!
The worst. A DP with sacks loaded.
Brutal
Loaded up for Betts and Freddie and TT
Although I have seen this bases loaded nobody out movie before. It was last night and I want a different ending tonight.
This is the second game in pitcher Morales’s career.
Short-lived I suspect.
I’m here for the fantastic finish – the frantic finale – the flourishing uh something…
Welcome back!
Here for a good time and if need be a long time.
Looking like it may end soon. I hope I’m wrong.
Bottom of the lineup.
Tying run at the plate.
27 hits in total, so far. They are out-playing us for sure. Bye bye first place… unless…
What was that? He woulda been out by a mile.
Terrible.
What happened?
Throwing error by Barnes scores another run.
oh
This is a rotten way to end.
It ain’t over yet.
Yeah but it’s close to over.
Curses!
¡Miér-coles!
Our bullpen has disintegrated, imploded, collapsed and fallen apart. Did I miss anything?
A DP would be nice…
Harper gets the IBB.
Finally.
Good. Not for the DP.
What am I missing? Wasn’t this rule ended?
Unfortunately not.
Ridiculous.
Almost as bad as the DH.
I thought they stopped with the runner on second base!!!! Really?
I thought they stopped with the runner on second base!!!! Really?
Rats, Cody.
Not unexpected, sadly.
Everyone’s gone to bed, Scoop.
I’ m here, RBI and WBB!
And Link, who’s been lurking! Also, I just got Steinered as I have moved to radio upstairs in bed.
Not I, but I will need to take the dogs out.
Almost got your 10-9 right there, Scoop.
Unfortunately more Bryce Harper.
Crazy game. Fireworks before the fireworks.
Wow! I looked away and BOOM
Well, I’ll be a monkey’s uncle! (A favorite family expression while I was growing up.)
Scoop, your prediction is looking prescient.
JT!
Muncy is pretty lost.
Take out “pretty.”
Fine AB by Trea, coming back from 0-2.
UMP! Suddenly you decide not to call strikes strikes?
Messy.
Strike three was called a ball so naturally he then gets a hit.
UMP!
Harper is 5-for-8 with 3 doubles, 2 homers and 5 RBIs thus far in this series.
Harper continues to kill us. Why aren’t they pitching around him? Well, at least we’re setting the stage for my predicted 10-9 Dodgers win.
Harper is unreal. I’d hate to see him when he’s healthy!
Muncy is getting a few hits and is or was leading the league in walks, but overall, with more than one-sixth of the season gone, he has been a huge disappointment. He shouldn’t bat cleanup anymore, but who should?
Barnes?
Why the heck not? Or how about Freeman?
nope
I’m baaack.
Harper is killing us, and there are two games left with the Phillies this weekend.
Harper won’t play on Sunday, getting a platelet injection for his shoulder.
A shred of good news.
I’m out. Too annoying.
So frustrating. Gotta do better, bullpen. Stop hanging pitches!
Time for a 1-2-3 double play.
Too late for…
ugh this can’t end well
Now Vesia is off.
This game is hard to watch.
We start hitting and now we stop pitching. The Dodgers will win this one, 10-9.
Vesia struggling now. We can’t win for losing!
Already nine hits for the Phillies.
Buehler really struggling now.
I’m getting tired of this team. Never liked them that much to begin with.
I presume you mean the Fillies.
Oh yes indeed.
Oh good grief. Make it stop.
Yes! Yes! Yes! 5-2 Dodgers!!
The Pads have drubbed the Barves, so the Dodgers must win to remain in first.
Getting there. JT double helps!
Maxxxxx has got to relaxxxx. He’s hacking.
The Kershaw injury casts a dark shadow over the Dodgers. I am particularly disturbed to read he will be out “indefinitely.”
It sounds as if he expects to be back after the minimum stay, but I wouldn’t be surprised if this is his last season.
That’s better.
I was about to post this exact thing.
CT3!!!!
Not sure about throwing a fastball down the middle to Bryce Harper – lucky it was only a double.
Geeze – can we officially say we are slumping and the Phillies are surging?
Freddie with the run-saving play!
I was hoping we might score in the first.
We don’t seem to do well the first time thru the order.
There is that.
There is a lineup. https://twitter.com/SarahWexler32/status/1525234596543090691?s=20&t=Rv8ikzeGm7T5WmRy8ZnJUg
Good news. Probably don’t have to worry about Hudson blowing another game tonight.
Good news. Probably don’t have to worry about Hudson blowing another game tonight.