Dodgers at Reds, 4:10 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports Ohio, SPNLA
RHP Tony Gonsolin (3-1, 1.77 ERA) pitches for the Dodgers and RHP Luke Weaver (1-2, 5.36 ERA) goes for the Reds. Weaver is not, as far as I can tell, related to either Jeff or Jered Weaver.
- 1941 The Giants join the Dodgers and Senators in requiring their players wear protective headgear. The durable plastic liners, which are sewn into the hat, don’t provide a defense against defeats when the team drops both ends of a doubleheader to Pittsburgh at the Polo Grounds, 5-4 and 4-3.
- 1957 After an 86-minute delay, the first fog out in major league history occurs at Ebbets Field when the umpires call off the Dodgers’ game against the Cubs due to extremely poor visibility. Brooklyn has a 1-0 lead when the game is postponed with one out in the bottom of the second inning.
- 1968 The day after Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated in Los Angeles, Maury Wills refuses to play in a 4-2 loss to the Dodgers, his former team. The 35 year-old shortstop stays in the Chavez Ravine training room, reading RFK’s book, To Seek a New World.
- 1994 Mike Piazza hits the longest home run recorded in the history of Joe Robbie Stadium when his first career grand slam is estimated to travel 477 feet. The catcher’s Ruthian blast, one of four Dodger round-trippers during the Florida contest, isn’t enough to thwart the Marlins’ 11-10 come-from-behind victory.
- 2006 On the sixth day of the sixth month of the sixth year of the century, the Dodgers score six runs in the sixth inning during the sixth game of the homestand, beating the Mets, 8-5. On 05/05/05, the Twins scored five times in the fifth inning en route to a 9-0 victory over the Indians.
- 2007 At Petco Park, Trevor Hoffman becomes the first reliever to save 500 games. It takes the all-time saves leader 10 ninth inning pitches, including an 87 mph fastball thrown past Russell Martin for the final out, to reach the milestone in the Padres’ 5-3 victory over the Dodgers.
Another event of note: in 1944 Baseball canceled its scheduled eight-game slate due to the Allied invasion of Normandy known as D-Day. The military operation has 60,000 Allied troops, including future Hall of Famer Yogi Berra and six minor leaguers who will be killed in action, landing along a heavily protected 50-mile stretch of the coastline in France to begin an offensive assault against Hitler and the Nazi party. Of less momentous note, in 2000, thanks to the Angels’ video crew playing a clip from the 1994 movie “Ace Ventura, Pet Detective” on the JumboTron, the Rally Monkey is born. With the words “Rally Monkey” superimposed over a monkey jumping up and down in the Jim Carrey movie, the crowd goes wild when Anaheim scores two runs in the bottom of the ninth to beat the Giants, 6-5.
Lineups when available.
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NPUT
You gotta be kidding me. HBP to tie the game?
3 run lead doesn’t seem so large with our bullpen.
Judge still out of lineup for Yanquis, who are getting interesting gamed.
Into the 7th, still interesting.
Well, watching the Puds lose eases the pain a little.
G’night all. Time to wash the bad baseball taste out of my mouth.
Worst game of the year, by far.
Waste of a grand salami.
That was darned near disgraceful.
That was ugly.
Yep. Ball game.
Worst loss of the year.
Coulda stuck with Phillips, who threw only 11 pitches.
Exactly.
We’re about to walk into second place.
About as bad a ninth inning as I’ve ever seen.
Agree but cannot like.
DP or bust!
Fraley feeling Caleb’s pain.
How much worse can it get?
We can lose.
im afraid we are about to see
This is PAINFUL! Sorry, WBB. No can keep watching.
Top of the order after giving bases away like candy.
Incomprehensible inning.
We need some quality futuring.
We need some quality pitching first.
Oh, so NOW there’s a mound visit.
Walks a non-hitter.
Nobody’s swinging. And why should they?
Will should go talk to him.
Fergie’s all shook up.
C’mon Fergie.
UMP!!!
Bad future person…
Caleb’s been really good this season, but….
No bueno, Caleb.
Lead off walk. Crap.
Miércoles no es mañana…
Ump is consistent at least.
Consistently terrible.
Don’t walk the lead off guy, Ferguson!!!!
I don’t miss Kimbrel but I do miss Kenley.
Why is Max out of the game?
It’s up to Caleb. Gulp.
KT3.
Nice Phillips
Need to get a few back, please.
Phew!
Pew. Our bullpen stinks.
Graterol is not fooling anyone.
C’mon, Brewster!
Just one hard hit, no?
Getting a little tight in Cincinnati.
Well done Brewster!
One of the best 3-6-1 I’ve ever seen.
A couple of jam shots and here they go.
Foillowed by a beauty of a DP.
I was in Southern California last weekend and listened to Saturday’s Dodgers-Yankees game while driving north on Interstate 5. We have previously discussed being “Steinered” because of that announcer’s tendencies to be unable to judge a fly ball and a home run. However, in announcing the game, I noticed two other significant errors by Steiner. At one point, Mookie came up with the Dodgers trailing 5-3 and two men on base. He said that Betts represented the tying run. At another point, perhaps in the same inning, he said that there was one out; there were no outs then. There was a third mistake, but I can’t recalI what it was. It is hard to take notes while driving. I went to Sunday’s game. Bobby Miller seems to be the real deal. Nearly all his fastballs seemed to be 99 or 100 mph.
Steiner should retire.
Thank goodness that half inning is over.
Nice!
Get the new kid out.
Muncy getting a lot of action.
Bear down, Yency!
Fine play by Miguelito!
Yency’s been good lately, but this is not propitious.
Yeah, looked safe to me.
White Sox – Yankees no longer interesting. 3-1 Sox in the bottom of the 7th.
Disappointing.
Oh, Max.
An easy force at third.
Double error, then.
Snakes have taken lead over Nats (gnot the Gnats, who play the Rox tonight).
That’ll do…
Will it though…
Apart from Coors, GABP is the run happiest park in the NL
It’ll do for the moment, at least.
Wowser!
Freddie!
Let’s cash in.
Miguelito gets rung up on one a foot outside.
Mister Slugger!
JD gets the job done…
Radio lagging.
No video tonight?
Pretty high pitch count by Gonso standards.
https://twitter.com/azfreedman/status/1666201759012773897
Nats (gnot the Gnats) lead Snakes 4-1 after 1-1/2.
This park seems to produce a lot of runs.
So much for an early lead.
It coulda been worse.
Gonso not sharp so far.
Redlegs’ uber-prospect fails to make his first play (which goes for an infield hit for Mookie).
One of Vin’s D-Day historical lessons.
Here, in brief, is my late uncle’s D-Day story. https://www.instagram.com/p/CtKcoHcyuji/
This is a story of logic and goodwill with a sad coda. From “DL” to “IL”: Who, how and why it happened.
I agree in principle, but “DL” rolls off the tongue much more easily. Mind you, many people object to the term “disabled” in any context.