Game 118, 2023

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Brewers at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: MLBN (out-of-market only), Bally Sports Wisconsin, SPNLA

RHP Adrian Houser (4-3, 4.38 ERA) goes for the Brew Crew and RHP Bobby Miller (6-2, 3.89 ERA) goes for the Dodgers.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1914 Brooklyn’s Jake Daubert sets a National League record with four sacrifices in one game. The first baseman’s efforts aren’t enough when the Dodgers drop an 8-7 decision to Philadelphia at Ebbets Field.
  • 1926 When Babe Herman doubles with the bases loaded, three Dodgers wind up on third base. The runner on second rounds third but decides to go back as the runner from first reaches the same base, and a few seconds later Herman slides in to join his two teammates.
  • 1951 With one out in the top of the eighth inning and a runner on third base in a 1-1 tied game, Willie Mays, running at full speed, makes an incredible catch of Carl Furillo’s drive to deep centerfield. After grabbing the ball, the rookie outfielder turns counterclockwise and throws a perfect strike to home to nail a surprised Billy Cox at home to complete the double play. Some believe the catch, in the Giants’ eventual 3-1 Polo Grounds victory over the Dodgers, is the impetus for the beginning of the team’s incredible comeback from an 11.5 game deficit to win the National League pennant.
  • 2006 The Dodgers, with their 4-0 blanking of the Marlins, win their sixth consecutive game and 17th in the last 18 contests. The stretch is the team’s best run since the Brooklyn Superbas went 20-1 in 1899.
  • 2020 Max Muncy hits the first leadoff sac fly in baseball history when he flies out to deep right field, scoring Chris Taylor, the Dodgers’ ghost runner who stole third base on the second pitch of the tenth inning. Angels’ reliever Keynan Middleton, who throws a perfect 1-2-3 inning, is tagged with the loss when the run proves to be the difference in the team’s 6-5 loss in Anaheim.

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62 thoughts on “Game 118, 2023”

  33. Earlier this year, in Chilean Patagonia, I finally collected on a dinner bet over the Yelich-Bellinger MVP race with a Wisconsin friend who lives there (because of the distance, our time there coincides infrequently). When I recently suggested we do another bet on Comeback of the Year, he demurred.

  34. nine, nine, nine, etc., from the Beatles Revolution-9. Also, the number of games that the Dodgers lead the NL West by.

  35. Adrian Houser, Milwaukee’s starting pitcher tonight, is a member of the Cherokee Nation, one of four currently in the majors.

        • Osiyo!
          The Cherokee Nation is a sovereign tribal government. Upon settling in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) after the Indian Removal Act, the Cherokee people established a new government in what is now the city of Tahlequah, Oklahoma. A constitution was adopted on September 6, 1839, 68 years prior to Oklahoma’s statehood.

          Today, the Cherokee Nation is the largest tribe in the United States with more than 450,000 tribal citizens worldwide. More than 141,000 Cherokee Nation citizens reside within the tribe’s reservation boundaries in northeastern Oklahoma. Services provided include health and human services, education, employment, housing, economic and infrastructure development, environmental protection and more. With approximately 11,000 employees, Cherokee Nation and its subsidiaries are one of the largest employers in northeastern Oklahoma. The tribe had a more than $2.16 billion economic impact on the Oklahoma economy in fiscal year 2018.

        • Back of the envelope: Certainly “well represented” in the sense that one in 114 thousand are in the majors, whereas overall in the US it is one per 400 thousand. Even then, guessing that only 2/3rds of big leaguers are from the US.