Game 40, 2023

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Padres at Dodgers, 4:15 PM PDT, TV: Fox

RHP Joe Musgrove (1-0, 6.75 ERA) pitches for the Padres and LHP Julio Urías (4-3, 3.37 ERA) does the same for the Dodgers.

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)

    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.

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99 thoughts on “Game 40, 2023”

  2. If you look at Baseball Reference’s career ERA leaders Kershaw’s not at the top, but the Dodgers and Fox both say so. Here’s the deal:

    His 2.48 career earned run average (ERA) and 1.00 walks plus hits per inning pitched rate (WHIP) are the lowest among starters in the live-ball era (minimum 1,000 innings pitched).[1][2] Kershaw has a career hits allowed per nine innings pitched average of 6.82, the third-lowest in MLB history.[

    Okay, but it’s hard to believe the 41 guys ahead of him were all pitchers whose careers were mostly if not completely in the dead-ball era. Looking at the names, though, I guess it’s accurate.
    https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/earned_run_avg_career.shtml

  5. Urias at $300-$350 million for 8 years or Ohtani at $500-$600 million for 10 years?

    It would be great to have the Dodgers do both – but if they only do one – who would you prefer?

  13. So, so close to being over on a great barehand pickup and throw with a long long stretch catch. This could motivate SD regardless of the outcome.

  52. Can’t believe they are complaining about that pitch being a ball. It was very high.

  54. Best way to stop the Dodgers from scoring with 2 outs? Try and leave the field after getting the 2nd out. Nice try Padres.

  58. Double for Freddie. That would have scored a couple of runs last inning.