Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 6:40 PM PDT, TV: FS-A, SPNLA
With six days rest LHP Julio Urias (2-0, 3.67 ERA) goes for the home team. He’ll face the D-Backs’ LHP Alex Young (1-1, 4.70 ERA), who will be making his fourth start as the replacement for an injured Madison Bumgarner. Urias has been “throwing his fastballs slower and his offspeed pitches faster than last year,” says MLB. In Young’s last start he gave up three runs on five hits over five innings.
The D-Backs traded their crusty relief pitcher Archie Bradley to the Reds over the weekend, so the Dodgers won’t have to face him anytime soon.
Here are the three home runs which the Dodgers hit on Sunday to set the NL record for most dingers in a month:
Roberts said Alex Wood will be activated today and in the bullpen. Dodgers will roll with Kershaw, Buehler, Urías, May and Gonsolin in the rotation.
— Dodger Insider (@DodgerInsider) September 1, 2020
The Dodgers have placed IF Justin Turner on the injured list with a left hamstring strain, retroactive to August 29, and have activated IF Edwin Ríos and LHP Alex Wood from the 10-day injured list.
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 1, 2020
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1890 On Labor Day at Brooklyn’s Washington Park, the Bridegrooms, later to be known as the Dodgers, win all three games against Pittsburgh in the first tripleheader ever played. The home team sweeps the visiting Alleghenys, who will be renamed the Pirates next season, 10-9, 3-2, and 8-4.
- 1953 The Cardinals tie a major league mark, hitting five homers in a 12-5 loss to Brooklyn at Ebbets Field. The solo shots hit by Stan Musial, Harry Elliot, Rip Repulski, and Steve Bilko (2), all off starter Preacher Roe, aren’t enough to offset the Dodgers’ 17-hit attack, which includes six doubles but no round-trippers.
- 1969 At Dodger Stadium, Willie Davis ties the franchise record by hitting in 29 consecutive games with his second-inning single in LA’s 10-6 victory over New York. The mark was established by Zack Wheat in 1916.
Lineup when available.
Tonight's lineup vs. D-backs:#Dodgers | @biofreeze pic.twitter.com/dwLsSrc3ba
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) September 1, 2020
NPUT
Joe Kelly notices… https://twitter.com/billplunkettocr/status/1301253384444338176?s=20
Becoming Jackie… https://twitter.com/ZHBuchanan/status/1301180104664522753?s=20
Late to the party. But Dodgers win! (Just got in from a night of listening to live jazz outdoors.)
RBI2 for CT3
Box score says line drive
It’s too bad that we had to use Kenley in a game that we led 6-1 after eight innings.
He hadn’t thrown since Saturday, and it was only five pitches.
Dickerson of the Giants doubled low oft the wall in his final at bat against old friend and catcher Drew Butera. Giants held on to win, 23-5.
Lead back to five full games over the Pads.
Woo-HOO!!! Kenley does it!
We’d better finish this off here.
Cody not in the lineup. https://twitter.com/DodgerYard/status/1300941740736745472?s=20
Hmmmm. For those of you who watch and/or listen, please share whatever you learn.
Regular rest I would guess. Might as well do it against a lefty.
Fair enough. But he had yesterday off.
Sore lat from BP.
This happens so seldom this year, but it happens…
Ahmed unloaded on that one.
Ooph. I literally saw that one coming right before it happened.
Stop watching!
Sorry. It happens sometimes.
The Giants lead the Rockies, 23-2, after 7 1/2. One of their outfielders, Alex Dickerson, has hit three homers and is due to lead off the 9th.
Need a Covid 10 run rule
He appears to have found the Fountain of Flaxseed Oil.
Nice to see Wood pitch so well.
You can tell he has been away. Doesn’t realize the ball is not thrown around the horn anymore.
I hadn’t heard he was back on the active roster.
Happened today.
Let me see 93
Wood you believe it? Alex is back.
Quique falling just short tonight.
Generous scoring. Thats a ball that should have been caught.
Kalhoun butchered that one.
108 mph right at him. Tough.
Not routine, but Kalhoun took a step in. I’d score it an error.
Guess the idea is that it would have been a great catch. CT3 probably gets points for hitting it so hard.
It was catchable and only required a well timed jump. But a line drive right at an outfielder is very hard to judge. Taylor deserved a hit for sending it out at 108 more than Kalhoun deserved an error.
Fielders generally not judged based upon routes or timing of their jump.
True, as far as errors go.
Oops
Can Julio complete 7 innings? Will he be given the chance?
Only 78 pitches, and 5-6-7 due up.
Guess they want to use those to see if McGee can regain his magic.
Lux’s shovel made that closer than it shoulda been. At least he didn’t Sax it.
Quique barely misses it! Nice catch by Varsho.
Will Will drive in a run?
Julio qualifies for a win and might get it if Dodgers start to capitalize on all the walks and bloopers that are accumulating.
Missed opportunities.
Come on Lux.
Guessing that catchers should have a pretty good idea of the strike zone when at bat. Yogi, on the other hand, was a notorious bad ball hitter.
Manny Sanguillen?
Another.
Who would you prefer to pitch against between a Yogi and a catcher with a good eye and discipline.?
3 time MVP and twice voted 2nd, no thanks.
Apparently he didn’t take his own advice–You can observe a lot by just watching
Well, that fizzled out fast.
Yeah, shave it Kike’
I was thinking the same thing.
Not a good swing, Max.
42 pitches thru 3 innings is a lot better than Julio’s been doing.
Shift not working
I’ll say.
Bah.
Several years back, Joc, Strip, Cory, Wood, Thompson shared a house.
Pee Wee used to share a house with a fellow he dubbed Weird Game James.
Trayce Thompson signed a minor league deal with the Arizona Diamondbacks on February 2, 2020.
He has a better chance with AZ
He has some talent, but couldn’t stay healthy.
I see Gavin is finally up. Who was sent down?
Turner IL’d.
Technically it was Mitch White, Rios called up for JT.
Julio stepping up; trying to claim the #3 spot in the rotation.
Julio announcing that the third spot in the playoffs is his! (Unfortunately not likely to face the Snakes).
Seager’s D has been shaky.
Rattley and rolly too.
Righty bats made all the outs. Dodgers still sputter against lefties. Young probably wishes he threw a strike to Taylor.
Is Kiké ever gonna get untracked?
I think it’s the moustache.
You might be right.
Will Smith looks about age 15. I’m not sure he even needs to shave.
OK, Chris, don’t strike out on three pitches.
No double plays either
Walks are allowed
Yes, yes.
How about BB on four pitches?
JD, reporting my return, back from trying to do permanent damage to my lungs lugging a pack over the high peaks of the southern Sierra for 10 days.
If that’s the goal, that way is cheaper than smoking for 40 years.
I did lose a ton of belly fat cause while I was hacking up soot I lost my appetite. Not the recommended way to lose a few inches.
No.
When the lung issue hit, I was about as deep in the back country as I could have gotten. Had to get myself out over 2 12k passes in 4 days, so I slogged it out. Beautiful trip before the smoke hit. People were bailing out left and right though. Big fire down in the Sequoia national forest is making the whole sierra miserable.
Our right-handed batters should knock this go out by the 5th.
All lefty infield. Is that a first?
We’ve had an all switch hitting infield who hit left against righties
Parker, Lefebvre, Wills, Gilliam
Great first for Julio, at last.
Rox embarrassed themselves v. the Pads, and continue to do so v. the Gnats.
Bradley’s career vs. the Dodgers: 32 games including 4 starts, 3 saves (I would have thought more), 4-2 record, 3.31 ERA in 54.1 IP, 25 BBs, 56 Ks. Dodgers hit .234 against him.
But a LOT of bi-directional surly sneers.
I was unable to find the BDSS category among the stats.
Tended to be used as a two-inning set up guy against the Dodgers, if I recall correctly.
So we traded someone who is no longer, at age 30, a stripling (but is in fact a Stripling) for two striplings (ages 22 and just barely 20).
The Stripling is a savvy investor, though.
Adding to Link’s note above about tripleheaders, the last MLB one was played nearly a century ago: https://www.baseball-almanac.com/legendary/MLB-Tripleheaders.shtml
Player to be named… https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/454eeb49a073cc120f7f2af7f19b6fe41c65dbb01b1026145076bf2d359e16dc.png
Some power, some speed, too many Ks.
https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=chisho000jas
Still very young, so he’s got time.
True.
The Puerto Rican Winter League is considered “foreign” to Baseball Reference? Don’t they recognize a US Territory when they see one?
There have been six other Bahamians in MLB, most notably the Gnats’ Andre Rodgers (also a star cricketer) and Ed Armbrister (Cincy outfielder, two WS rings).
1975 World Series Armbrister!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRw2_KvHcPk
Hmm.
https://twitter.com/billplunkettocr/status/1300957666672431104
JT to IL.
After the amputation, it’ll never bother him again.
Ha!
https://twitter.com/DodgerInsider/status/1300877633148784640
Not a bad get based on where he was drafted. Threw 19 innings at Rookie ball in 2019 after being drafted.