Dodgers at Padres, 5:40 PM PDT, TV: FSSD, SPNLA
LHP Rich Hill (0-0, 1.50 ERA) makes his second start of the season for the Dodgers, while LHP Joey Lucchesi (3-2, 4.94 ERA) goes for the Padres. In Hill’s first start he went six innings, struck out six, walked none and gave up one earned run. This season Lucchesi has had outings in which he’s given up seven, five and five runs in a total of fifteen innings. Last year he gave up 13 runs in 12 2/3 innings while making three starts against the Dodgers. Oddly, one of his starts against them was last year on this date when the two teams met in Monterrey, Mexico.
Sad news about The Bison: The Reds released him today. He was hitting .200 with one HR and five RBI for Cincinnati and was on the 10-day IL. I suspect he’ll get picked up by an AL team looking for a DH at some point this year.
- 1919 A SRO crowd attends the first-ever major league game played on a Sunday in Brooklyn. The Ebbets Field contest, in which the Dodgers beat the Braves, 6-2, was made possible when the New York Legislature passed the Sunday Baseball Bill into law.
- 1966 In a 6-1 victory over L.A. at Candlestick Park, Willie Mays becomes the all-time National League home run leader when he strokes his 512th career round-tripper off Dodger starter Claude Osteen. The San Francisco center fielder passes another Giant, breaking the mark established by Mel Ott in 1946.
- 1976 Illinois state Rep. Eugene F. Schlickman, co-author of the House of Representative Resolution 747 declaring today as Rick Monday Day, will be in attendance when Los Angeles vice president and GM Al Campanis presents the Cub outfielder with the flag he saved that was about to burned on the field at Dodger Stadium. Last month, the former Marine reservist, in a game played in Los Angeles, ran in from his position, swiping the ‘Stars and Stripes’ away from a father and a son, who were intent on setting it afire.
- 2009 With their 7-2 win over Arizona, the Dodgers establish a National League record for consecutive victories to open a season at home. Their 11-0 start surpasses the NL mark shared by the 1918 Giants, 1970 Cubs, and 1983 Atlanta Braves, and is one shy of the major-league record set by the Tigers in 1911.
Lineup when available.
Tonight’s Dodger lineup at Padres:
Hernández CF
Turner 3B
Seager SS
Freese 1B
Muncy 2B
Martin C
Verdugo RF
Taylor LF
Hill P#Dodgers | @Biofreeze pic.twitter.com/Sg6DFZNipD— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) May 4, 2019
Bellinger separated his shoulder in last night’s game and is day-to-day.
Another gutsy win
Well, that could have been so much worse.
Kelly is not fooling them.
Surprised they’re leaving Lucchesi in here.
Don’t think the reliever was warm yet.
Ah. Makes sense.
NPUT @ 0830 HST, 1130 PDT, 1430 EDT
I heard that mess of a 6th while driving up to a Wendy’s for a BOGO cheeseburger deal. Got home with the score tied only to find we’d been given two chicken sandwiches rather than cheeseburgers. Turned around and went back (1 1/2 miles, maybe?) and got home with the burgers just in time for Verdugo’s walk to score the go-ahead run. Finished my burger just as Kenley struck out local boy Garcia.
Exciting evening in so many different ways!
Great timing.
Wasn’t it? 😉
Yee-haw!
Kenley rocks! How could I ever doubt him?
Woo-HOO!!!
Kenley!
Nervous…
Hasn’t thrown a strike yet.
Just got back from San Jose, where the Rancho Dodgers beat the Gnatlings 7-3. Jeter Downs (acquired from Reds) went deep twice, and Tony Cingrani made a rehab appearance.
How did Tony look?
Pretty good, throwing 92 in a scoreless inning, 16 pitches, one K.
Welcome back to a nail biter.
Ball 3 ump.
Verdugo cool as a cucumber.
Intense! Rook does well.
Alex up.
Yikes. Two well hit fly balls. But not well enough, thankfully.
So can Belli be used later tonight as a pinch hitter since Barnes replaced him?
Sure. Wasn’t officially announced as PH.
Thanks. I didn’t know the rule.
Leapin’ CT3!
Longgggg game. They’re saying 91 pitches thrown in the 6th inning.
Got out of that relatively cheap.
Without Manny putting one over the fence again
This game is intense!
Only the 6th!
Manny is licking his chops.
Joe really did no one any favors.
Gulp.
You can say that again. Machado up.
He wants this badly.
This is really not good.
Foul, thank heaven’s.
This is not good.
Hate the way these calls are going against the Dodger pitchers and for the Padres.
Ump is lost.
Agree.
Yimi warming for high leverage.
Got to tip your cap to that at bat.
And France wins the battle…
On the eve of Cinco de Mayo no less.
Dang.
This is crazy. 14 pitches?
They’re not going gently into this good night.
A very good inning for the Dodgers. It still hurts to leave runners on.
Hedges is a darn good receiver. Really keeps those 65 foot pitches in front of him.
Martin not too shabby.
Run, Red run!
Beaty, congrats, but dude. A shaved head is not a good look for you. Let it grow out.
We old guys may have a bald head out of necessity.
You made me laugh.
Beaty with the rbi!
Now, won’t you come home Matt Beaty.
Let’s get some more!
They heard you!
CT3 starting to get good wood.
Suddenly Dodgers be hitting.
Alex with third hit.
Slaps Machado’s glove away at second.
Max!!!
That got out in a HURRY!
Max hero!
Max has reverse splits.
Lucchesi having trouble throwing with his glove hand at least.
Petey needs to hold them here for the team to have a chance. Tough situation.
Gets the job done!
That’s two efforts like that within a week from Pedro.
Machado acting on a grudge against the Dodgers?
I wanted him hitting home runs for the Dodgers.
Even saw him run out a grounder last night!
I won’t be hanging out here today because I’m off to see the future Dodgers of Rancho Cucamonga play the Gnatlings in San Jose. Far better place to see a game than Software Stadium.
Meanwhile, Kemp isn’t only ex-Dodger fallen out of favor in the Rhineland (though Kyle Farmer’s doing pretty well). https://twitter.com/mlbtraderumors/status/1124779799568891904?s=20
Enjoy the game. Let us know if there are any unusual ballpark food options there.
Hawai’i v. Long Beach State for the NCAA Men’s Volleyball Championship is tied at one set apiece.
Is the game played in the sand?
Nope. That’s this weekend in Atlanta. UH lost to UCLA in the semis.
It seems to me that hitters used to duck inside pitches like Muncy did fairly often compared to what happens now.
Machado at it again.
The Dodgers need another right-handed bat. Any suggestions?
Maybe Toles will learn to hit from the right side while in his Spring Training.
Don’t see anything within the organization, other than having Belli switch hit. What happened to the fellow that the team had to let go after a good spring? Right handed outfielder. Don’t recall his name, but I think he went elsewhere (Twins?), but didn’t stick.
Well Connor Joe, who is hitting at OKC.
Howard Cole on Twitter is suggesting they pick up Kemp.
https://twitter.com/Howard_Cole/status/1124811235835256833
He’s injured no? They won’t need a DH until May 21 and then only for two games until again June 10 for two games.
There is that, too.
OPSing .905 in FOURTEEN at bats. He’s been terrible against righties (in 46 at bats). He probably would be better than Beaty, especially at league minimum, but don’t try to pass him off as an all-star on the basis of 14 at bats.
Actually, given his track record, he’s likely to give you something close to league average offense, which for a bench player would be fine.
The Bison is kind of a modern day Pete Reiser. What might have been if he hadn’t kept colliding with the wall.
From the SABR bio of Reiser comes this sad litany:
Wow! Guess he can be forgiven for not remembering the fifth skull fracture.