Braves at Dodgers, 7:10 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports SE, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA
The Braves send their ace RHP Spencer Strider (15-4, 3.46 ERA) to the mound. He’ll face the Dodgers’ newly-acquired RHP Lance Lynn (10-9, 5.56 ERA).
- 1950 In front of 14,226 fans at Ebbets Field, Gil Hodges becomes the fourth major leaguer in the century to hit four home runs in one game as Brooklyn routs the Braves, 19-3. The Dodger first baseman also ties the major league record for total bases with 17.
- 1959 Sandy Koufax fans 18 batters to establish a new National League record for a nine-inning game in the Dodgers’ 5-2 win over San Francisco at the LA Memorial Coliseum. The left-hander’s performance equals the major league mark established in 1938 by Indians fireballer Bob Feller during a 4-1 loss to Detroit.
- 2010 The Dodgers trade a player to be named (infielder Tony Abreu) to the Diamondbacks in exchange for starter Jon Garland. The 31 year-old right-hander will post a 3-2 record with a 2.72 ERA in his six late-season starts for the Dodgers, before signing as a free agent with San Diego.
Lineups when available.
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NPUT
24-5.
Was really hoping for 25-4.
Just off the end of the bat.
Tease
Betts, Freeman, Smith (if necessary) in the 9th. Here’s hoping it’s still 8-7 when they come to bat.
Will Busch be doing the Freddie?
Not right now.
James keeps the line moving.
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Refresh.
My my Mookie!
Mookie would have taken that homerun away from himself if her were playing right
Strider might be good but my wife really dislikes his mustache.
Patterson-Liston?
It’s not so much Atlanta proving their strength as it is the Dodger Pitcher showing his wildness.
Who saw that coming?
Stevie Wonder
Curses.
Double curses: Disney and Spectrum are in a fight over cable prices; the Mouse wants more than Spectrum wants to pay, so ESPN and all its subsidiaries are OTA on my cable system.
Got behind because of Lynn’s wildness and then showed off heart.
Disappointing but hardly devastating.
Rats. Only caught the last two but what a couple of innings!
Braves got lucky.
Lots of teasing this inning
Vamos, ¡Quique!
Let’s go Kiké.
I thought he had it!
Me, too!
Ok Keeks.
Oh man.
Let’s go Maximum…
Ok Max…
Dang.
Will Smith keeps it going.
Tying run on base.
Let’s do this LA.
It would make spending this much time with them more gratifying.
I would wear a three foot long sliding glove.
Nothing like having a 3 foot oven mitt to extend your reach.
With velcro to keep the glove on the bag.
Max had good positioning there.
No trip to the World Series will be awarded tonight. Just a friendly PSA for everyone.
Two best teams in baseball, so better than a WS.
You have a point.
Go Dodgers…
Love to see Rosario against this lefty.
Mintor being shown the showers.
Welp, won’t happen
Nice walk by CT3.
Well Mookie will get another at bat for sure.
Should be exciting.
Top two teams playing like the top two teams
War of attrition.
With all the scoring it’s more like a war of addition.
Keeps our attention
Gracias Max!
Max!!!!!
Great futuring on your part!
I’ll pass the kudos on to Max.
Need a baserunner or two – with no outs on the bases – to ensure the top of the lineup to come up again.
Dude can play right field.
JayHey?
You’re not watching tonight?
Yeah but was a bit behind.
Per Joe Davis and SNLA:
Mookie sets record for most hits in one month for Dodgers with 51. He passed Willie Davis, who had 50 in 1969.
Welcome back Shelby.
Muncy’s error looming a bit larger. Hopefully batting Max can make amends.
Moooo mvp kieeeee
Mookie going Wall scraping again
It ain’t over ’til it’s over…
Betts ditto!
Ha! Busch dinger.
In the days of Mantle Mays and Snider wouldn’t Acuna be a centerfielder?
In those days, Henry Aaron played RF.
He was a little later mostly and didn’t have the speed of the 4 mentioned.
Bill Bruton manned CF for the Braves and had after burners (led NL in SB 53-55).
Of course it being the 50’s – did he even have 20 in any of those seasons?
25-35 range.
CF in Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds went on forever, no? Not sure about Ebbets, but seems that ballparks in those days had Death Valley centerfields (Forbes and Cleveland also come readily to mind). So a lot of ground to cover must have really put a premium on speed relatively more than today?
So with that, Acuna might have played CF in the 50’s.
Yeah, something like that.
Our ability to score with two outs is remarkable.
https://twitter.com/DodgerBlue1958/status/1697455582104662336?s=20
OK, that’s a start.
Third time through the lineup
I just got home.
Ooof.
And woof.
Lance Lynn is the master at giving up home runs so it is not super surprising.
It appears i’m late to a bad concert. Maybe a new band is en route.
Yow!
Get out there Prior
Why won’t you listen to me Mr. Prior
The hitter and the umpire are really helping Lance right now
But not enough…
I’d rather he had pitched around Acuma instead
Until Lance threw it too far away for help
Nice play by Muncy, but not nice enough.
Pads have gifted the Gnats a 6-0 lead, but we have confidence SF can blow it.
One run’s better than none.
Tie the record now Max
Good RBI.
Max has good wheels.
https://twitter.com/BSmile/status/1695774143545823619?s=20
Thanks BBaSSww
I wonder if Rosario could have some way have told Betts soon enough to throw to first instead of second the Dodgers could have turned a double play because Acuna stopped running.
In the end, it didn’t matter.
This is worthy of thought:
https://twitter.com/noahcamras/status/1696323235472875716
High probability Lynn remains, I’d say.
He could have less expensive alternatives if our prospects excel the rest of this year.
Lotsa good pitching prospects, but they’d be on innings limits. Kershaw and Urías, presuming they remain, also have workload issues.
True. Also Giolito could be added as an innings eater instead though.
Giolito’s a free-agent seeking a multi-year contract, Lynn’s a one-year stopgap.
He is not making his case right now!!!!!!!!!!
Tonight’s matchup favors the Barves – especially given Lynn’s gopher ball issues – but I’d be happy to be proved wrong.
So far: Not wrong.