KT3. What a waste. He is redefining the definition of futility.
Maybe the Dodgers new found hitting shoes don’t work smoothly on the fielding side yet.
Ump needs glasses. Maybe this is why Ohtani swung at that ball.
Padres lost to the Diamondbacks. Giants were idle. Rockies beat the Cardinals. Dodgers now lead the Padres by 8, the Giants and Diamondbacks by 8 1/2, and the Rockies by 16.
At least the good outweighed the bad.
Vesia gets it done brilliantly, but it is no fun to to sweat out a "laugher."
Yes.
Yippee!! For the Linkster.
They all are this year I feel like.
What a crazy series.
0-1
6-10
11-7
Woo-HOO!!!
Dodgers win!
CT3 must be so despondent this season.
Does he need glasses, 15 days on the IL, two weeks in Glendale, retirement?
He should volunteer to go to OKC and work on his problems. He is a wasted roster spot. Team player my ….
Good idea. Or it might be time to DFA him. Enough is enough.
If he won't go voluntarily to OKC, I would DFA him. The money is already a sunk cost. Not helping the team and taking up a roster spot that we could use to look at some of our prospects.
Useless, sadly.
Whether he is on the roster or DFA'd, it is dead money. There is no good reason to believe he is going to get much better. He has not been good for 2 years. At least if he is gone it opens a roster spot.
The $13 million he is receiving this year probably helps his mental attitude.
And the $13M next year and $4M buyout for 2026.
Not likely.
We really need Shohei to get hot in NY.
So who closes now? We've already used Grove, Treinen, Hudson and Phillips? Will be it be Vesia? Banda? Doc may have backed us into a corner.
Gonna need a long outing from Yamamoto tomorrow.
Vesia. But I still don’t get why Doc didn’t go Vesia and then EP.
1 3 run home run not as good as 2 3 run home runs. But ooof
Ooof indeed.
Wonder what the thought about using EP here in the 8th is?
I wouldn't have. Only thing I can think of is that he hasn't pitched since June 1st.
I agree!
Closers often don't fare well in non-save situations, and their ERAs are often blown up for quite while.
This would happen once in a while with Jansen.
I don't put much, if any stock in relievers ERA's.
We are still striking out too much. Especially Ohtani.
The Hornet.
Who is The Hornet? (As it relates to tonight’s Dodgers game that is.)
The Hudson Hornet. A cool car from the 50's.
Thanks. Now I recall. You guys were taking about that a few nights ago.
Yep. Scoops parents and my dad both had one.
The 1950 Hudson Hornet that my parents bought in 1955 did not have a classic windshield. The windshield was divided in half by a narrow strip that was part the body of the car.
The way Rojas is hitting, I would move Mookie back to 2B and play Rojo at SS. It worked last year.
Agreed. Redux: I love Mookie, but we can't afford to play him at shortstop.
Mookie is certainly a key player in tonight’s game – mostly good, but some glaring bad as well.
I wonder how many games it has been since everyone in the starting 9 had at least one hit in the game?
Scoreboard now says 10-4, Good Guys ahead!
Atta boy Grover.
Perfect!
Boomkie.
Planted in the landscaping.
MOOKS!!!
Mooookie!!!
End of lineup small ball working just fine
Gotta take a call in ten minutes. But I like the direction we are taking. Here’s hoping we can keep it going!
Mookie dialled long distance for you!!
And I got to see it!
Barnes keeps the line moving.
Nice, Austin!
Thanks Pirates for that gift.
That’ll do!
Barnesie’s turn.
Shoot. Contact play didn’t work.
I guess if he stays at third he might not have been able to get to the bag in time as the ground ball was right at the bag and if he runs, he would have been safe if the ball bounced into left field or out at home if it didn't.
That works.
Kiké comes through!
I've been watching a recorded game and have just caught up. It was fun looking at the first inning comments and then see how how the comments progressed.
Hopefully the game ends as it started.
Ouch.
TEO!
Well, bullpen is going to be stretched going into NY. Better win this one.
Really?
Good Grief. That ball was a mile outside Shohei.
Gotta get this run in Shohei.
Ok. Let’s call a time out and regroup here Dodgers.
Not that tonight is fully or even mostly on Buehler, but I hope Kershaw’s comeback goes smoother than Buehler’s has this far.
If I were Buehler I’d start to feel snake bit.
Exactly.
Unacceptable.
Error number 3. Bah.
So frustrating.
Little league time.
Welp, that happened, but it should only be 4-2. That’s on the team behind him.
Less than ideal.
That’s kind.
Well crap.
ARGHHHHH!!!!!!
Go Walker go! You can finish this off! Right? Right?
Going out for a walk in Juneau, so get things done in my absence.
Out by plenty.
Shoot. Out.
Hmmm. Can’t tell if Andy got there.
Pages! He’s definitely seeing the ball better again.
I love Mookie, but we cannot afford all his throwing errors.
Growing pains.
Hahaha.
McCutcheon starting with the acting to get the call.
Poor Buehler getting no help from our fielders.
Understatement in action.
Ha! I left off the rule violation descriptives.
Not only cost him an unearned run, but, at least 10-12 extra pitches. About an innings worth.
Defense not helping.
Good grief.
Looks like Falter got his slider working.
Looking for a redemption DP here.
And a redemption HR later.
Mookie blows an easy play.
I think Freddie is going to pass Mookie in OPS soon. Mookie’s currently at .906 and Freddie’s at .890
Decent first for Ferris.
The most encouraging beginning in recent memory.
They have scored 10 runs in the last 8 innings. Hope the bats that have awoken, stay that way going into Yankee-land.
Yanqui Stadium is very hitter-friendly for zurdos.
Don’t say it. Don’t say it.
This Pirate pitcher is really Faltering.
Now that’s what I call getting a game off to a grand start. Let’s keep it going.
Just hope Buehler brings A game today. Or at least his B game.
We could use a laugher today.
There’s a start!
There finally is the 3 run home run.
Wah-Ooh!!!
At Nats Park. Will be scoreboard watching! Go Blue!
Watching in Juneau as it rains outside.
Scoreboard says 4-0!
And away we go.
No Will Smith. I don't get it. If you are going to give Will a day off, let it be against a righty pitcher. I am not convinced that he needs this much rest this early in the season. Perhaps in August and September, but not now.
How many runners will Teo leave on today?
I also am wondering why Will is getting a day off. Perhaps Doc wants him to have some rest and then start all three at Yankee Stadium as the Sunday game is at night, not during the day, so Barnes is, thankfully, unlikely to get a start there. Teoscar in the cleanup spot is disappointing. I'd put Pages there.
Good points Scoop.
Teo has to up his game. Especially with Muncy out.
Dodgers (38-25)
Pirates (29-32)
SP Walker Buehler R
1-3 4.32 ERA
SP Bailey Falter L
3-2 3.22 ERA
Lineup:
SS Mookie Betts R
DH S. Ohtani L
1B F. Freeman L
RF T. Hernandez R
CF Andy Pages R
2B Miguel Rojas R
3B E. Hernandez R
LF M. Vargas R
C A. Barnes R
KT3. What a waste. He is redefining the definition of futility.
Maybe the Dodgers new found hitting shoes don’t work smoothly on the fielding side yet.
Ump needs glasses. Maybe this is why Ohtani swung at that ball.
Padres lost to the Diamondbacks. Giants were idle. Rockies beat the Cardinals. Dodgers now lead the Padres by 8, the Giants and Diamondbacks by 8 1/2, and the Rockies by 16.
At least the good outweighed the bad.
Vesia gets it done brilliantly, but it is no fun to to sweat out a "laugher."
Yes.
Yippee!! For the Linkster.
They all are this year I feel like.
What a crazy series.
0-1
6-10
11-7
Woo-HOO!!!
Dodgers win!
CT3 must be so despondent this season.
Does he need glasses, 15 days on the IL, two weeks in Glendale, retirement?
He should volunteer to go to OKC and work on his problems. He is a wasted roster spot. Team player my ….
Good idea. Or it might be time to DFA him. Enough is enough.
If he won't go voluntarily to OKC, I would DFA him. The money is already a sunk cost. Not helping the team and taking up a roster spot that we could use to look at some of our prospects.
Useless, sadly.
Whether he is on the roster or DFA'd, it is dead money. There is no good reason to believe he is going to get much better. He has not been good for 2 years. At least if he is gone it opens a roster spot.
The $13 million he is receiving this year probably helps his mental attitude.
And the $13M next year and $4M buyout for 2026.
Not likely.
We really need Shohei to get hot in NY.
So who closes now? We've already used Grove, Treinen, Hudson and Phillips? Will be it be Vesia? Banda? Doc may have backed us into a corner.
Gonna need a long outing from Yamamoto tomorrow.
Vesia. But I still don’t get why Doc didn’t go Vesia and then EP.
1 3 run home run not as good as 2 3 run home runs. But ooof
Ooof indeed.
Wonder what the thought about using EP here in the 8th is?
I wouldn't have. Only thing I can think of is that he hasn't pitched since June 1st.
I agree!
Closers often don't fare well in non-save situations, and their ERAs are often blown up for quite while.
This would happen once in a while with Jansen.
I don't put much, if any stock in relievers ERA's.
Ezio Pinza?
Go ahead. Watch it anyway. From South Pacific:
https://www.youtube.com/wat…
The Buccos just handed old friend Bruihl a mop.
Grove even goes 2 innings.
We are still striking out too much. Especially Ohtani.
The Hornet.
Who is The Hornet? (As it relates to tonight’s Dodgers game that is.)
The Hudson Hornet. A cool car from the 50's.
Thanks. Now I recall. You guys were taking about that a few nights ago.
Yep. Scoops parents and my dad both had one.
The 1950 Hudson Hornet that my parents bought in 1955 did not have a classic windshield. The windshield was divided in half by a narrow strip that was part the body of the car.
The way Rojas is hitting, I would move Mookie back to 2B and play Rojo at SS. It worked last year.
Agreed. Redux: I love Mookie, but we can't afford to play him at shortstop.
Mookie is certainly a key player in tonight’s game – mostly good, but some glaring bad as well.
I wonder how many games it has been since everyone in the starting 9 had at least one hit in the game?
Scoreboard now says 10-4, Good Guys ahead!
Atta boy Grover.
Perfect!
Boomkie.
Planted in the landscaping.
MOOKS!!!
Mooookie!!!
End of lineup small ball working just fine
Gotta take a call in ten minutes. But I like the direction we are taking. Here’s hoping we can keep it going!
Mookie dialled long distance for you!!
And I got to see it!
Barnes keeps the line moving.
Nice, Austin!
Thanks Pirates for that gift.
That’ll do!
Barnesie’s turn.
Shoot. Contact play didn’t work.
I guess if he stays at third he might not have been able to get to the bag in time as the ground ball was right at the bag and if he runs, he would have been safe if the ball bounced into left field or out at home if it didn't.
That works.
Kiké comes through!
I've been watching a recorded game and have just caught up. It was fun looking at the first inning comments and then see how how the comments progressed.
Hopefully the game ends as it started.
Ouch.
TEO!
Well, bullpen is going to be stretched going into NY. Better win this one.
Really?
Good Grief. That ball was a mile outside Shohei.
Gotta get this run in Shohei.
Ok. Let’s call a time out and regroup here Dodgers.
Not that tonight is fully or even mostly on Buehler, but I hope Kershaw’s comeback goes smoother than Buehler’s has this far.
If I were Buehler I’d start to feel snake bit.
Exactly.
Unacceptable.
Error number 3. Bah.
So frustrating.
Little league time.
Welp, that happened, but it should only be 4-2. That’s on the team behind him.
Less than ideal.
That’s kind.
Well crap.
ARGHHHHH!!!!!!
Go Walker go! You can finish this off! Right? Right?
Going out for a walk in Juneau, so get things done in my absence.
Out by plenty.
Shoot. Out.
Hmmm. Can’t tell if Andy got there.
Pages! He’s definitely seeing the ball better again.
I love Mookie, but we cannot afford all his throwing errors.
Growing pains.
Hahaha.
McCutcheon starting with the acting to get the call.
Poor Buehler getting no help from our fielders.
Understatement in action.
Ha! I left off the rule violation descriptives.
Not only cost him an unearned run, but, at least 10-12 extra pitches. About an innings worth.
Defense not helping.
Good grief.
Looks like Falter got his slider working.
Looking for a redemption DP here.
And a redemption HR later.
Mookie blows an easy play.
I think Freddie is going to pass Mookie in OPS soon. Mookie’s currently at .906 and Freddie’s at .890
Decent first for Ferris.
The most encouraging beginning in recent memory.
They have scored 10 runs in the last 8 innings. Hope the bats that have awoken, stay that way going into Yankee-land.
Yanqui Stadium is very hitter-friendly for zurdos.
Don’t say it. Don’t say it.
This Pirate pitcher is really Faltering.
Now that’s what I call getting a game off to a grand start. Let’s keep it going.
Just hope Buehler brings A game today. Or at least his B game.
We could use a laugher today.
There’s a start!
There finally is the 3 run home run.
Wah-Ooh!!!
At Nats Park. Will be scoreboard watching! Go Blue!
Watching in Juneau as it rains outside.
Scoreboard says 4-0!
And away we go.
No Will Smith. I don't get it. If you are going to give Will a day off, let it be against a righty pitcher. I am not convinced that he needs this much rest this early in the season. Perhaps in August and September, but not now.
How many runners will Teo leave on today?
I also am wondering why Will is getting a day off. Perhaps Doc wants him to have some rest and then start all three at Yankee Stadium as the Sunday game is at night, not during the day, so Barnes is, thankfully, unlikely to get a start there. Teoscar in the cleanup spot is disappointing. I'd put Pages there.
Good points Scoop.
Teo has to up his game. Especially with Muncy out.
Dodgers (38-25)
Pirates (29-32)
SP Walker Buehler R
1-3 4.32 ERA
SP Bailey Falter L
3-2 3.22 ERA
Lineup:
SS Mookie Betts R
DH S. Ohtani L
1B F. Freeman L
RF T. Hernandez R
CF Andy Pages R
2B Miguel Rojas R
3B E. Hernandez R
LF M. Vargas R
C A. Barnes R