If you’re following your Governors’ requests and staying indoors but you’re tired of reading (or writing, in RBI’s case), MLB has a vast assortment (its words) of classic games available at its vault for free watching. Included:
- Gibson’s homer (Oct. 15, 1988, World Series Game 1): Though he could barely make it around the bases, Kirk Gibson takes Dennis Eckersley deep for one of baseball’s most iconic big flies.
- Kershaw twirls a no-no (June 18, 2014): Only an error prevents a perfecto, as Clayton Kershaw strikes out 15 Rockies.
- Dodgers give Vin a walk-off send-off (Sept. 25, 2016): With legendary announcer Vin Scully behind the mic at Chavez Ravine for the final time, the boys in blue clinch a division title.
- Kershaw saves the day (Oct. 13, 2016, NLDS Game 5): In a winner-take-all contest on the road, Kershaw comes out of the bullpen on one day of rest to finish off the win for a tiring Kenley Jansen.
- A blowout for the pennant (Oct. 19, 2017, NLCS Game 5): The Dodgers explode early against the Cubs, with Enrique Hernández’s three homers powering them to their first World Series since 1988.
Those are just the Dodgers’ games, of course. There are plenty of other famous games to see there as well. Check out the page for links to all of them.
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I am growing resigned to the total absence of baseball in 2020.
JT proposes ending tie games with a Home Run Derby.
He doesn’t want this to be a permanent change; just this season to save pitchers’ arms.
A truly horrendous idea. Almost as bad as the DH.
Quiet, JT. Don’t let Manfred hear you.
Here’s a new book about the land acquisition and construction of Dodger Stadium:
https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1245832506403766273
For those of you in the Southland (and Hawai’i, apparently, as well), this should (eventually) be a big deal. https://twitter.com/ramonashelburne/status/1245384226809102336?s=20
Three years without? Four? It’s about damned time.
Details at the LAT.
Seven years, from what I read. If I could directly subscribe to SportsNetLA, I would.
The final instalment of my odyssey from Chile to California – https://tinyurl.com/ufjemag
A little more excitement and a lot more waiting than you wanted. I want some housemade sausage now.
Haven’t tried their sausages, but the thin-crusted pizza’s really nice.
You made it! The final leg sounds surreal. Thanks for posting this.
Writing about it was, on one level, cathartic.
Nicaraguan ballplayer suspended a year for unwillingness to play in coronavirus crisis. https://twitter.com/clarincom/status/1244396602191724547?s=20
Who is Cody Thomas and how did he go from backup QB to Baker Mayfield at Oklahoma to Dodger prospect?
The Athletic is discounting subscriptions by quite a bit right now. I’ve paid full price the last two years and found it worthwhile.
Well, he certainly made the most of his spring training opportunity.
And another old friend is gone. https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1243594232587313156?s=20
He died last May.
Old friend Jimmy Wynn, who played in the only World Series I ever saw in person, is gone. https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1243360381327650816?s=20
What a good player he was.
He was past his prime with Dodgers, but still pretty good despite injuries.
Fanatics makes MLB jerseys. It talked to Rob Manfred and got him to agree they’d stop making the jerseys and switch to masks and gowns for PA hospitals.
Hanley Ramirez’s error, a wild throw, kept Kershaw from having a perfect game. It was not a difficult play he just threw poorly.
Jimmy Wynn, The Toy Cannon, passed away today at 78.
RIP Toy Cannon!
https://twitter.com/GrantBrisbee/status/1242534576242622464
Damn, I miss Grant’s posts at McCovey Chronicles.
I’ve just written another blog blurb about my situation in Santiago at https://tinyurl.com/u76j5z9
Anybody wants to click an ad and earn me a few pennies, feel free.
Did you get home?
My flight is tomorrow night (Friday), to LAX. I have a connecting flight to SFO, but I’ve reserved a rental car to drive home just in case I don’t want to endure another flight. It may take a little longer to Oakland, but less aggravation (and lesser risk of contagion).
You said you had only one novel left. Maybe you should invest in an e-reader of some kind. I think I have 100+ books on my Kindle, and I’ve only read about half. But I’m in no danger of having nothing to read!
I hate reading anything longer than a newspaper article on a screen.
Just learned my Tuesday night flight to MEX and SFO was canceled, got it rescheduled Friday night via LAX. I might bag the LAX-SFO segment and rent a car to get home instead.
I hope it works out for you.
Vin has some thoughts about the current world situation.
Last night I watched the documentary “The Battered Bastards of Baseball” on Netflix, which offers some (incomplete) insights on the game’s current issues (nothing to do with coronavirus, however).