57 thoughts on “Game 98, 2024”

  1. Gnats had a 3-0 lead after five in Denver. With nobody out in eighth, Rox now lead 6-3.

  17. But for an early-season injury to Ken McMullen, he might not have become what he became for the Dodgers.

    • But he had one of the most memorable Dodger ABs ever, so I'll cut him more slack than to any of the Trashtros.

    • The Kershaw book, of course, touched on this. Apparently Utley smelled something, but told his teammates that it wouldn’t come out until one of the players was traded to another team, which is what happened.

  22. Every game today and tomorrow is MLBTV Free except for those on Apple TV and ESPN. Sunday starts a string of five consecutive blackouts, four of them with the Gnats.

    • The blackout policy is unfair and somewhat arbitrary. Living on the Monterey Peninsula, I get all the games on the Giants’ network.

      • I'm surprised to hear that. In Alaska, Mariners were blacked out. As we passed through Canadian waters, Rox were blacked out.

  23. I'm presently watching Kershaw pitch against the Round Rock Briskets. Tuned in late, apparently he's given up two runs but just struck out consecutive batters.

    • Very much enjoyed the Kershaw book and now plowing through Penguin Power, a very different first person narrative from Ron Cey.

      • I knew Ron in Tacoma, though he went to another high school. I first saw him play in eighth grade, when he hit an absolute bomb off our pitcher. We moved our LF back 50 feet on his next AB, and he did it again.

        • A determined young man apparently. New analytical measures are quite kind to him. He actually won an arbitration case against Dodger management.

          • And less kind to Garvey, who management had ahead of Ron at 3rd base and delayed his promotion to the Bigs

  24. On July 19 In Baseball History…

    1909 – Cleveland shortstop Neal Ball pulled off the first unassisted triple play in modern Major League history.
    1910 – Cy Young registered his 500th career victory as the Cleveland Naps beat the Washington Senators 5-2 in eleven-innings.
    1933 – Rick Ferrell of the Boston Red Sox hit a home run off brother Wes, pitching for the Cleveland Indians. Wes also homered in that game, marking the only time the two connected in the same contest.
    1960 – Juan Marichal broke in with the San Francisco Giants by pitching a one-hit, 2-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.
    1974 – Dick Bosman of the Cleveland Indians pitched a no-hit, 4-0 victory over the world champion Oakland A's.
    1982 – In the first Old-timer's All-Star Classic, played at Washington's RFK Stadium before 29,000 fans, the American League won 7-2. Luke Appling, 75, led off for the American League and hit a home run over the shortened left-field fence off Warren Spahn.
    1989 – Cleveland's Joe Carter had the fourth three-home run game of his career, tying Lou Gehrig's American League record, and drove in six runs, powering the Indians past the Minnesota Twins 10-1.
    1994 – The Kingdome, home of the Seattle Mariners, was closed after four ceiling tiles fell nearly 180 feet into the stands behind home plate. The Mariners were forced into a 22-day road trip before the season was cut short by the players' strike.

    Nothing on the Dodgers found for this date.

  25. Red Sox (53-42)
    Dodgers (56-41)

    SP Nick Pivetta R
    4-6 4.18 ERA
    vs
    SPGavin Stone R
    9-3 3.26 ERA

    Lineup:
    DH S. Ohtani L
    C Will Smith R
    1B F. Freeman L
    RF T. Hernandez R
    CF Andy Pages R
    SS Miguel Rojas R
    2B Gavin Lux L
    LF M. Vargas R
    3B Chris Taylor R

  26. Dodgers have set their rotation: Stone tonight, Wrobleski Saturday, Paxton Sunday.

  29. As of 10:30 Thursday night on the West Coast, the Dodgers still hadn't announced any of their starting pitchers for this weekend's three-game series vs the Red Sox.

  30. As of 10:30 Thursday night on the West Coast, the Dodgers still hadn't announced any of their starting pitchers for this weekend's three-game series vs the Red Sox.

    • A good omen? Since the start of the 20th century, the Dodgers have never won the World Series in any of the 10 seasons in which they won 100 or more games.