Game 142, 2023

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Dodgers at Nationals, 10:35 AM PDT, TV: MASN 2, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA

The Dodgers haven’t announced their starter as of 7:00 PM HST Saturday night [Update: it’ll be Ryan Yarbrough (7-6, 3.80 ERA)], while the Nats will start RHP Trevor Williams (6-9, 5.21 ERA), if, if the weather allows the game to be played. The forecast is somewhat grim: “Scattered showers and thunderstorms before 2pm, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm between 2pm and 5pm, then showers and thunderstorms likely after 5pm.”

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1974 Lou Brock ties and then breaks Maury Wills’s 12 year-old single season stolen base record with his 104th and 105th swipes. The Cardinal left fielder’s thievery against the Phillies doesn’t help when the Redbirds drop the Busch Stadium contest, 8-2.
  • 1992 Cardinals vice chairman Fred Kuhlman tells reporters that a “security check” had revealed serious issues involving the two out-of-state investors, Vince Piazza and Vincent N. Tirendi, part of the six-man group trying to buy the Giants and move the franchise to Florida. The candid reply to the press will cost baseball more than $6 million to settle a suit that includes a letter of apology from acting Commissioner Bud Selig to Vince Piazza, whose son Mike started his major league career with the Dodgers nine days before his father’s rejection by the MLB owners.
  • 2008 With a 4-2 victory over the visiting Yankees, the Angels clinch the division flag on the earliest date in the history of the American League West. The Halos, the first club to secure a postseason spot this season, have finished in first place four times in the past five seasons.

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163 thoughts on “Game 142, 2023”

  2. Asterisks just beat the Padres, 12-2, meaning that San Diego cannot win the NL West. They have minimal hopes of reaching the Wild Card.

  6. I should have noted on Friday that this has been a very dry summer in Washington. My garden really appreciated this weekend’s rain.

    • It’s tough when you don’t get on base much otherwise and don’t have any power to get a get OPS .600 off of .230 batting average. Peralta hits .272 and can just barely get above OPS .700 for the same reasons.

  18. Taylor and Rojas have both reached the .230 (or beyond) threshold and Barnes has raised his average from .130 to .172 in about a month by going 11-for-34 (.324), including today.

    • Taylor has .775 OPS (coming into the game), however, given relative ability to get on base and power. Rojas barely at .600.

  60. Our Dodger announcers have said multiple times that Dodger hitters can’t wait go hit against the National’s Williams because he gives up to many home runs. Do opposing teams’ hitters therefore love hitting against Lynn?

  67. Yarbrough is Dodgers’ 13th starting pitcher this season.
    2022–11
    2021–12
    2020–9
    2019–11
    2018–11
    2017–10
    …
    1966–5 (Koufax 41. Drysdale 40, Osteen 38, Sutton 35, Moeller 8).

  76. So close are we that my buddy played 3rd base coach and yelled for Freddie to hold up on the Max double.