Game 13, 2024

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Dodgers at Twins, 3:40 PM PDT, TV: Bally Sports North, SPNLA

LHP James Paxton (1-0, 0.00 ERA) starts for the Dodgers and RHP Bailey Ober (0-1, 54.00 ERA) does so for the Twins.

Today in Dodgers’ history:

  • 1966 At the Astrodome, the Astros and Dodgers play baseball’s first game on synthetic grass. Thanks to the Monsanto chemical company, which proposed using an experimental playing surface of nylon grass, the plan to play on an all-dirt field, necessitated by the need to paint the dome’s glass panes to reduce the glare which prevented natural grass from growing, was alleviated by the use of ‘AstroTurf’.
  • 1974 Braves outfielder Hank Aaron passes Babe Ruth as the all-time home run leader with his 715th, going deep in the fourth inning off Dodger hurler Al Downing in Atlanta’s home opener. ‘Hammerin’ Hank’ equaled the Bambino’s mark on Opening Day in Cincinnati.

  • 1994 Kent Mercker no-hits Los Angeles, 6-0 at Dodger Stadium. The Braves left-hander was one of the three Atlanta pitchers, along with Mark Wohlers and Alejandro Pena, in 1991 to also no-hit the Padres, but this victory is his first complete game in the major leagues.
  • 1994 Chan Ho Park becomes the first Korean to play in the major leagues when he makes his pitching debut at Chavez Ravine. In one inning of work, the 21 year-old Kongju City native gives up two runs on one hit, walking two and striking out two batters in the Dodgers’ 6-0 loss to Atlanta.
  • 2015 Adrian Gonzalez becomes the first major league player to hit five home runs in the first three games of the season when he goes deep three times in the Dodgers’ 7-4 victory over San Diego at Chavez Ravine. The Los Angeles first baseman joins Carl Furillo (1955) and Jimmy Wynn (1974) as the only players in franchise history to have homered in the first three games of a campaign.

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75 thoughts on “Game 13, 2024”

  3. The Gnats once had two relievers, this guy Okert and another named Osich. The former’s nickname was “Oh, crap! ” The latter’s nickname was…

  4. Well, when you have been highly competitive as a team over a long period of time, you have likely shed some MLB-serviceable players along the way that can come back to bite you.

  5. Today’s quiz question: Which organized baseball franchise used the nickname “Twins” before today’s opponent did? Spoiler: I should expect at least one of us to be familiar with the geography of it.

  7. Paxton looking good as the 5th starter. Not many teams can bring out a #5 starter that good.

    • KT3 has been a huge disappointment since signing his ill thought out contract. One of the worst contracts the Dodgers have doled out.

      • The owner of the startup I worked at 40 years ago was a jerk and a cheap SOB who graduated from Purdue (amusingly, his 2nd in command graduated from Notre Dame). So I’m inclined toward UConn.

          • No, private social/health club. It lasted up until the pandemic; nobody was gonna pay dues to a club they couldn’t visit.

            He’d sold it years earlier. He then sold the other club in Culver City LA; he was the only one who made any money in that whole 40-year operation.

    • As a Hoya fan, going with the Big East. Teams in the league did a lot better job against the Huskies than anyone they have met so far in March. Purdue is a handful with the big fellow.

  31. Something needs to be done about the terrible umpiring. This is ridiculous.

  37. Luckily Plan C, artificial turf was an option. Plan B, an all dirt field, would have been what we used to play on when I was a ten year old in parochial grade school baseball league.