Nationals at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: MASN2, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA
RHP Paolo Espino (0-3, 3.57 ERA) takes the ball for the Nationals and Tony Gonsolin (11-0, 2.02 ERA) gets it for the Dodgers. In three career appearances (one start) against the Dodgers, Espino does not have a decision with a 3.68 ERA. He’s appeared in 27 games this season, seven of them starts. Gonsolin had a rough All Star Game showing; he and his team hope that was an aberration.
The worst All-Star game ever? So thinks Ken Levine, ex-broadcaster and comedy writer.
Ken Rosenthal notes at The Athletic:
…while the Giants-Dodgers rivalry remains among the most intense in the game, it does not preclude former teammates — and their wives — from remaining close. On Friday, two Dodgers wives, Ellen Kershaw and Nicole Barnes, helped host a baby shower in Los Angeles for two Giants wives whose husbands used to play for the Dodgers, Suzanna Wood and Kelsey Pederson.
Suzanna and Alex Wood are expecting their first child in September. Kelsey and Joc Pederson are expecting their third in October.
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1962 At Sportsman’s Park, Stan Musial surpasses Giants’ legend Mel Ott as the National League’s all-time RBI leader. ‘Stan the Man’s’ two-run home run off Don Drysdale in a 5-2 loss to the Dodgers gives the Cardinals’ right fielder 1,862 career runs batted in with the Redbirds.
- 2017 The Dodgers defeat the Minnesota Twins to run their record to 70-31. Kenta Maeda gets his ninth win of the season and Josh Ravin posts his first save.
Lineups when available.
Another day on the West Coast. #NATITUDE pic.twitter.com/Ov7myPOH6n
— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) July 25, 2022
Keep the dubs coming.
Tonight's #Dodgers lineup vs. Nationals: pic.twitter.com/8SvopmswvJ
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) July 25, 2022
NPUT
From the LA Times: If you want Soto, says one MLB official, retool your entire farm system. The Nats want every top prospect you’ve got.
https://twitter.com/Super70sSports/status/1551973476545839104?s=20&t=IAblq15nCiq8-3xQ4mfAng
If that pitch was a strike, how can a hitter take anything?
Terrible call.
Looked fair to me!
Molly with COVID. https://twitter.com/molly_knight/status/1550993504557379584?s=20&t=dVxrtB_cQ2MQ1ARPui6swg
This is amusing. https://twitter.com/JohnSheaHey/status/1551778660507475968?s=20&t=dVxrtB_cQ2MQ1ARPui6swg
The Gnats’ defense. https://twitter.com/BenKaspick/status/1551656373275922432?s=20&t=dVxrtB_cQ2MQ1ARPui6swg
Fiddle-de-dee.
0-for-9 with RISP tonight.
We had plenty of chances.
I know that we’re not in the same division, but that cuts our lead over the Nationals to 32 1/2 games.
Oh well. We were due for a stinker. Whip’em tomorrow.
We need Cody to get on now and for Trayce to hit his second homer of the game.
Ridiculously tense game for a game that doesn’t really matter.
Given our ability to come back, we have come to feel like we are always in a game.
Max, be that guy.
https://twitter.com/FabianArdaya/status/1551789773982879744?s=20&t=dqnEnOYFfoo7bTxUDVz5fg
Moronta GUTS it out. Way to hang in there kid.
He’s not a kid. He’s a retread who’s peeling off.
Scoreless inning (first in the past six appearances).
Batters were worse than he was!
Never in doubt…
And to think fans once booed Kenley…
Dig deep Moronta!
He thought I meant the hole he was in.
Dave is mailing it in tonight. Saving the pen.
But who pitches the 9th? Moronta is already at 31 pitches.
15 strikes.
Struck out the side!
I would bring in Kimbrel.
Not even if we take the lead, I imagine would Doc throw him out there. Has pitched 3 days in a row, no?
Ah, no he took the 23rd off.
Willie earning his keep back there.
Moronta’s gotta go.
He got out of it.
He’s still gotta go.
At 31 pitches doubt we see him again tonight regardless what we do on offense.
It’s time to cut him loose.
Ok, though we are 12-3 in games that he pitches in.
12-4 now.
Correlation is not causation.
You are supposed to chuckle.
So are you.
Mook comes up empty again.
RALLY TIME!! Clap…Clap
Arrgh! Bases loaded, one out and no runs?
How could Mookie take that?
Expecting something else, I suppose.
Hard to believe that Soto hit was fair.
He slogged around the bases. He is not a fast runner.
Indeed he’s not. Also not a very good outfielder.
What a fluky hit.
Trace can play centerfield.
Oh, put me in coach, I’m ready to play today
Put me in coach, I’m ready to play today
Look at me, I can be centerfield
Trayce should have caught that.
The Pads have already lost and meanwhile, in Phoenix, the Gnats are headed for their fifth straight – 5-0 Snakes in the sixth.
First Nats hit was a dinger.
Max lucked out.
Oh Max.
I was away dining. What happened?
You and Max both
Called strike on full count with runner going. He took a good throw down but didn’t bother to apply tag because he thought it was ball four. Ump didn’t motion that it was a strike, but still…
Oh, I did see that, but I thought the runner was easily safe.
Perhaps. Max didn’t even look at the runner.
Way to go, Trayce.
Nice Trayce.
That 70-31 in 2017 is quite something.
The 2016 team, 92 wins, was supercharged with adding Belli and CT3 to the lineup, adding Hill and Wood stepping up as starters, and beefing up the pen.
Still no JT in the lineup. https://twitter.com/michaeljduarte/status/1551688910970900480?s=20&t=dVxrtB_cQ2MQ1ARPui6swg
Now it says that San Diego trails Detroit, 8-1, in the 4th. I’m confused.
Make that 12-4 in the seventh. Five of those runs unearned.
San Diego trails Detroit, 9-4, in the 5th.
Interesting post from Weisman. https://twitter.com/jonweisman/status/1551715184850268161?s=20&t=dqnEnOYFfoo7bTxUDVz5fg
Molly Knight thought the ASG was great, but later she came home with COVID. https://mollyknight.substack.com/p/for-one-magical-night-mlb-got-it
I thought the game was a bore. I taped it and sped through it.
I watched it, but lost interest after the first. I’m old enough to remember when the ASG could be exciting.
The All Star game isn’t the one that changed
There were some truly exciting ASGs. 1962 for example.