Dodgers at Angels, 7:10 PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FS-W
The visiting Dodgers will send LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu (3-6, 4.30 ERA) to the Orange County mound to face RHP Alex Meyer (3-4, 4.20 ERA) of the Angels.
Ryu allowed two home runs and five hits against the Mets in his last start but avoided the loss as Turner, Hernandez and Pederson all homered in the Dodgers’ 6-3 win. Meyer gave up five earned runs on five hits in 3 1/3 innings and lost to the Red Sox last Friday. Before that he’d had a streak of seven consecutive starts allowing three or fewer runs.
This date in Dodgers’ history, from the sublime to the ridiculous, or possibly vice versa:
- 1964 Take a look at the Giants’ 3rd inning here. Was Willie Mays surprised to find Roseboro on the basepaths?
- 1969 After ending an 11-game losing streak in their previous contest, the expansion Padres are the victims of a 19-0 shutout for the second time this season when Dodgers right-hander Don Drysdale equals the National League-record for the largest margin of victory in a shutout. L.A. will score more than half of their runs when they tally ten times in the third inning.
- 2008 In Chavez Ravine, the Dodgers, without the benefit of a hit for the entire game, defeat the Angels, 1-0. The combined losing effort of Halo hurlers Jered Weaver and Jose Arredondo isn’t considered officially as a no-hitter because the home team didn’t have to bat in the ninth.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's Dodger lineup at Angels:
Utley 1B
Pederson CF
Turner 3B
Bellinger DH
Taylor SS
Grandal C
Forsythe 2B
Puig RF
Thompson LF
(Ryu P) pic.twitter.com/nHCe5bkQsy— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 28, 2017
NPUT
Too busy dodging tornados last night, checked in this morning and wow! Tough way to lose.
Plural? Yikes! We usually only get one hurricane at a time.
Yes, more than one. Our local news covered at least five on the ground at one time. The closest one to us was twenty miles away.
Just saw the highlight reel in the postgame show. Blech, what a silly way to lose.
Wasting all those early walks didn’t help.
Well, we have Kershaw going tomorrow night. And Arizona and Colorado also lost tonight. (Trying hard to see the glass half-filled.)
I’ll drink to that!
Rochefort Trappistes 10 or something else?
Wow the first option sounds impressively good. I’ll take a glass half full of that.
I cheated and did some research on the Internet.
Error, wild pitch, passed ball, and throwing error.
Channeling the amazing Mets. Previously channeled the Bronx Bombers.
And losing the game on a strikeout. Not that I like reading autopsies, but can someone describe to me what happened on that final play?
Maybin strikes out. Ball goes through Grandal’s legs. He picks it up, double clutches and then throws high to first. I thought that Utley tried to go for the out more than just trying to catch the ball. But I would need to see the replay again.
Did the ball go over Utley’s head?
I think to the left of him. But I want to see the replay again. Well, kinda sorta want to see the replay again.
Wow. How awful was that!
We’re spoiled.
AGon would have gotten the out at first.
And Bellinger.
Bellinger, with his height and agility, probably would have.
Or at least caught the ball. Which is even more important than getting the out.
Who was playing first?
Utley.
Utley.
Playing with house money but the house wins it back.
Losing ugly…
Grandal sure knows how to kill his own buzz.
Oh dear. From hero to goat.
Ridiculous way to lose.
Error and wild pitch – not a way to keep them from scoring.
Bring in Jansen!
Need a K here Pedro.
Gotta keep Revere on first.
Can Paul (Pedro) keep Revere close? (My mistake: Pedro is ttanslated to Peter, not Paul.)
So much for that.
With Colorado and Arizona having lost, I feel like we’re playing with the house’s money, and we just drew a 5 on a hand of 16 (blackjack) in the top of the 9th.
Bring in Kenley?
Baez was warming earlier. Or Morrow.
But I would be fine going from best (Jansen) to less best (everyone else).
Crowd is going completely bonkers.
In LAA?
Yup! You should hear it! (Can you?)
I’m still in Oregon so I have a chance.
Grandiose!
Crazy team.
Grandal!!!!
Not hitting like Dodgers tonight, or at least the team of late.
How about now?!
Can’t fault the Dodger pitching . . .
Wow, three breaking balls, two right at the knees.
Don’t want to cheat the fans out of baseball . . . hoping for bottoms of the 9th in all these away games!
Okay, Belly. Do your thing.
Redbirds trying to give it away in Phoenix again…
Trailing 4-2, the DBacks have runners on 2nd and 3rd with two outs in the bottom of the 9th.
Trevor Rosenthal wild pitched a run in, has now put the winning run on base, and has to face a good hitter in Peralta.
Imagine a team scoring a run on a wild pitch.
Ha!
That was the last sighting of the juggernaut.
Cards win!
*Snakes lose!
Now let’s score two in the 9th.
I like that.
And shut them down in their 9th.
Woohoo!
They seem to be the best hope of LA not losing ground.
Oh JT. You got my hopes up.
Me, too.
Ditto.
Beat LAA!
Beat LAA!
Ha!
Die Anaheimer zu ihrer Heimat, bitte!
Curious – how many languages do you know WBB?
English (native), Spanish (non-native fluency), German (passable), Portuguese (passable), French (desperation only).
Well done!
Need one more but yay Trayce!
Trayce!!!
TnT from TT!
They’ve scored in only one of the last 25 innings.
Two!
Yahoo . . . need more to pull this out.
Too many routune fly outs and easy ground balls for the Dodgers tonight.
Maye we can get a little off Petit.
I like the play on words, but would prefer a lot!
That may just wake us up! It should.
Thank you, Puig!
Again, a shame one can’t get points off of great defensive plays, like in so many other sports.
Baseball is, I believe, the only sport in which the defense always has the ball.
Puig! Oh my.
Redbirds add another in eighth to lead 4-2, but their ‘pen’s been shaky.
Like you said…Try to hang on, Cards!
If the injury was affecting his pitching, I hope Ryu is healed quickly!
Except for this inning, he pitched so well. Deserved much better.
His best outing of the year although, like Hill, he was pitching against a weak lineup.
“Weak lineups” can beat “juggernauts,” as we know all too well.
Simmons. Weird seeing him hit HR’s.
He’s not a great hitter – but he’s got occasional pop.
Boo.
2 runs could be insurmountable.
Could be. We sure weren’t thinking that last week.
Exactly!
Hitting seems to be contagious . . . as is not hitting.
Angels getting breaks tonight. That double kissed the line.
I believe the disappearance of the Dodger offense coincided with the national story calling them a “juggernaut.”
They have been anything but since then.
Beware the Juggernaut my son! The jaws that bite! The claws that catch!
Well played!
Not as well played as that Puig catch!
Wow!
St. Louis still hanging on, leading Arizona, 3-2, after 7,
Winnipeg Dave: The answer is yes in respond to your question of last night about my friend who lives in Saskatoon. He is Dave Margoshes, the writer.
I read at least 2 of his short story collections last summer. Wonderful writer. I really enjoyed them.
That’s great to hear. I will share that with him. You might enjoy his novel Wiseman’s Wager. The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 plays a backdrop to parts of the book.
I will give it a try!
To be specific I read A Book of Great Worth, Bix’s Trumpet and Other Stories, and God Telling a Joke and Other Stories. I loved the title story of the last one!
Here’s Margoshes’ bio from the website of Oolichan Books, which is located in British Columbia: http://www.oolichan.com/author-dave-margoshes
When I was thinking of becoming a teacher about 15 years ago and was taking graduate classes at night, I wrote a paper on one of his novels, I’m Frankie Sterne, which I greatly enjoyed.
Well, I will check that one out as well.
How did you guys connect and become friends?
I met him at the first daily newspaper job that I had in Monterey, CA, in 1972 after college I was a sportswriter and he was a copy editor. We hit it off and became friends. A few months later he and his wife moved to Vancouver. He has also lived in Calgary, Regina and Saskatoon. I have visited him several times, including with my wife. Great writer, great guy. I am trying to find him an agent for him in the U.S. and am meeting with one next week.
Cool. And it would be fantastic to see him have a wider audience, which I assume is the plan with the agent.
Yes. It is hard to break into the U.S. market. I wonder if there is an anti-Canadian mentality in the U.S. publishing field.
But he was born in NY!
Yes, but he is much more of a Canadian than a New Yorker.
And I for one will claim him proudly! But he needs to be introduced to all y’all in the south.
Ha!
Hey, bats — come out a play!
Bellinger would have gotten the out there. Because he is taller.
Ryu’s off speed stuff has been good tonight.
and again
Dodger half innings sure go by quickly!
They aren’t getting walks anymore.
Or anything else.
Yeah that’s a problem for sure.
Let’s go Joc.
Dodger fans making themselves at home while away — sounds great, unfurling the LA banner.
Ryu pitching so well but gets hit on the leg.
does it look bad?
He is hobbling around trying to walk it off. Might stay in.
Does — and gets out of it.
Yas man!
Now that the first hit is out of the way, let’s get on the scoreboard under the “R” — MANY times!
Just tuned in and heard that the Angels bullpen was stirring. I was encouraged, picturing a Dodger lead, only to learn they’re just spinning wheels, with three zeroes across the board.
The offense has been MIA since the CO series (yes, they got enough last night to win, but diddly other than that inning) — I wonder if it’s a letdown from playing a division contender.
Doing better than Colorado post that series though!
True, but not as good as AZ after that . . . go, Cards!
Hopefully a battle of attrition. Lots of walks and all of them stranded. Still looking for some productive at bats.
Nice start by Ryu. Need a timely hit or three to get the offence going.
I guess Bellinger at DH is to give him a bit of a rest without giving his hot bat a rest
With Turner nursing an injury, he might have made a better choice, but giving Bellinger a rest from playing the field makes sense.
Aquí la alineación en forma más accessible… https://twitter.com/LosDodgers/status/880206898766721025
Plaschke has an opinion (as always) re the dearth of Dodgers in the starting lineup for the NL in the ASG: it’s the lack of TV exposure, stupid.
Still no Seager, but Puig and Turner are back… https://twitter.com/DodgerInsider/status/880200881202802688