Padres at Dodgers, 4:00 PM PDT, ESPN
RHP Joe Musgrove (2-2, 1.04 ERA), who threw a no-hitter on April 9, goes to the mound for the Padres. He’ll face the Dodgers RHP Dustin May (1-1, 2.93 ERA).
Today in Dodgers history:
- 1937 Cliff Melton becomes the first rookie to fan at least 10 batters in his major league debut, finishing with 13 strikeouts in a complete-game loss to the Braves at the Polo Grounds. The 25 year-old southpaw, who loses the 3-1 contest due to the poor defense of the Giants in the ninth inning, will hold the rookie record for K’s in his debut until Dodger freshman Karl Spooner whiffs 15 batters in his first major league start in 1954.
- 1958 In front of 60,635 fans at the Los Angeles Coliseum, the Dodgers, who beat St. Louis, 5-2, set a National League record for the largest crowd to attend a night game during the regular season. The mark will be broken next season when 61,552 fans show up on Opening Night at the Coliseum to watch their team defeat the Redbirds again.
- 1967 Jim Lefebvre commits three errors in the fourth frame, paving the way for the Braves’ 7-1 victory at Dodger Stadium. The Los Angeles third baseman commits a fourth error, booting Hank Aaron’s grounder in the top of the ninth inning.
- 1975 LA hurler Andy Messersmith strokes three doubles at Candlestick Park. The trio of two-baggers contributes to the Dodgers’ 6-5 victory over San Francisco with the right-hander scoring two runs and driving in another en route to his victory.
- 1976 During the fourth inning of the game being played at Dodger Stadium, Rick Monday becomes a national hero when he takes away an American Flag about to be set on fire by the two trespassers (a father and son) in the outfield. The Cubs’ 30 year-old fly chaser, who served six years in the Marine Reserves, will be presented the flag a month later in a pregame ceremony at Wrigley Field by L.A. executive Al Campanis as a gesture of patriotic thanks.
- 1995 The 257-day strike ends when the Dodgers beat the Marlins 8-7. The work stoppage caused last season to end early, forced the cancellation of the World Series, and delayed the opening of this season.
Lineup:
Tonight’s #Dodgers lineup vs. Padres: pic.twitter.com/2WnoXJcO3Q
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 25, 2021
NPUT
Oh boy. Cleavinger called up and guess what, fella?
Struck out on ball four. Damn!!
Just stay alive until a wide one!
Maybe I should have watched the Oscars.
Better Pagan than Pomerantz.
Onto the ninth. (Later in the game.)
Bottom of the eighth. Can Muncy get a five-walk game!
Right.
And – let’s find out.
Maybe throw over to first Dustin.
Muncy’s OBP is off the charts. He leads the NL with 19 BB.
Beaty is keeping pace, thanks to HBPs.
A good eye, patience, and some swing and miss leads to walks.
Every team can use a player with a .903 OPS.
Arrrgh!
Wasted a heck of nice effort by May.
Walking the dog helps a bit. Dodgers have a depleted lineup, but that will change soon.
Just watched the trailer for In The Heights. That puts a smile on the face for sure.
I honestly think it is good for the Dodgers to get hit in the mouth early in the season. The team will wake up a bit and start playing better baseball as the summer goes along.
That right there is exactly what I needed to hear, Winnipeg Dave.
It will happen.
Lost to a team wearing pee and poop colored uniforms.
The ignominy!
Exactly
i’m glad I didn’t watch and instead kept track on gameday. Having only Four on the bench hurt.
Good point.
Unacceptable!!
The embarrassing part is losing to a team that is basically a .500 team.
Not against us. And we’ll see how they do moving forward. Remember they were without Tatis for a few games there.
The Dodgers have been missing Bellinger for much longer.
Yes and we really need him back.
Well, that’s that.
Worst game of the year.
We gave it to them.
That. Just. Stunk. Out-played three out of four.
Grrrrr.
If we blow this I don’t want to read all the headlines tomorrow.
One more chance. I’ll settle
for a tie again.
Mookie. Is. Due.
Overdue.
The library is calling. They want Mookie back.
Not tonight.
Tonight – they can have him. He cost us dearly tonight.
More than once.
Bad at bat Rios.
Nice at bat Austin.
Big league.
Lead off walk! Now double steal?
Peters runs well.
Maybe he should steal third then.
Fast, but not sure if he’s a base-stealer.
This could be bad.
He’s due a bad inning, however.
Oh man. I forgot about Melancon.
Sweeeeeet K.
So Barnes, Rios and Betts for the Dodgers coming up?
With Dj on second.
Right.
Seriously, Dodgers. Have mercy on me.
Without the steaks that would have been even more helpful.
Darn it.
How many bases have they stolen off of us?
5 bases.
Unbelievable.
Five?
That pop up would have been great. One pitch ago.
Walk Hosmer? Or?
Stomach hurts. Too early in the season for this.
Peters will get his first taste as a base runner next inning.
I am pacing the room.
I can’t watch.
Strike. Or not.
Did that look like it should’ve been a called third?
Peters is contact-averse.
Gamble worked.
It was good strategy.
Would have been so much better not to swing. But I get the urge.
Will Kershaw pitch?
ARGHHHHH!!!!! Ball four swing and a miss! Why????
BB will do!
We are 3 for 13 with RISP apparently.
It’s time for Peters’s first hit.
Indeed.
But a WP would do.
Not feeling poor Dj here.
Well, at least Kershaw made him throw six.
Shouldn’t they have tried to bunt the run in?
Where’s Vin or Joe when you need them?
And look who’s coming up!
Wow.
Klayton for the win.
Five-walk game for Muncy.
Kershaw with the chance to be the batting hero?
Big pow-wow at the mound.
Too bad they didn’t throw that ball down the right field line.
Six of the seven games between them with tying or winning run coming to the plate in the last inning.
That, too, is a productive out.
Let’s get this done here please.
Yes, I want the rest of the evening off.
He did it!
Nelson ratings just went up!
Well there you go Jimmy.
Got him!
Un ponche, ¡por favor!
I was irritated, now I’m aggravated.
And look who’s up. Again.
That’s what’s called a productive out.
Is Treinen hurt or something?
Good question.
Would guess that it’s a usage issue.
Don’t see Mookie that upset usually.
Free baseball!
I’m not so stoked. Not after blowing a 7-1 lead.
Miserable.
Pagan certainly not getting squeezed.
Ball three strikes Mookie out.
In play, runs, please!
Just keep it going Mookie.
What do we think about bringing in Rios here?
Strictly match up based.
In the long run, I love Ríos. In the short term, ambivalent.
Let’s get this done here. Please.
Our own bloop single!
Barnes, Neuse, Betts.
Walk off win. Here we come.
Yes please. My stomach can’t take another inning.
We can salvage this one.
Better late than never.
Cue Lloyd Bridges about it being the wrong day to……
On the good side, we are through the toughest part of the lineup and not behind, right?
Sunny of you.
Well we are beating ourselves. We had so many chances earlier to score even more and now the pitching collapses.
12LOB
Yup. Our bad.
Now he is getting squeezed.
From 7-1 to 7-7, am I right?
It’s all wrong.
And now sacks loaded. And one out.
Nelson is really struggling. Anyone else warming up?
My temperature.
Ha!
My temper!
Walk Hosmer.
Merry go round out there.
There goes the DP.
And still only one out. Guess Jimmy Nelson’s not the answer.
Maybe Doc should have Treinen’d something else.
Ya think?
Unbelievable.
Miér-¡coles!!!!!!
Fluky hit after fluky hit.
Baseball gods be like. Nope. You don’t get to have this win yet.
I’m just… WHY????
Tatis strikes again, sort of.
No worries.
I’m worried.
There’s one.
Inauspicious beginning to the inning.
Such a typical Padre hit. Totally annoying.
I didn’t see it.
You don’t want to see it.
Broken bat bloop into left field.
Closer got to close tonight.
Rats!!
Time for a routine three-up, three-down.
What would that be like?
My fingernails could use it.
Onto the ninth.
Time for Peters to deliver!
Bah.
CTriple3!!!
CT3BASE
CT3 with the triple.
Nice K Victor.
Tatis will get another shot
Ideally with no baserunners.
¡Se poncha!
Get to work, future people!
Totally unacceptable.
Mound slowed it down.
I meant the bullpen performance as a whole.
Ah. Yes.
Argh. Getting too close!
Unlucky that the ground ball hit the mound.
Looks like the dodger throats are getting a little tight now, especially those of the hurlers.
Not to mention mine.
Why can’t we have one laugher against these guys? Every game is a nail-biter!
I’m getting irritated.
I’m ready for the Padres to be gone for a while.
Anyone here keeping an eye on the Oscars as well tonight?
The oscars are tonight?
Lol!
Its probably well over 2 decades since I followed or watched.
Half an eye. Half a lash on half an eye.
I’m checking to see if the Chilean documentary won, but it didn’t. Still, I will watch it streaming.
Dr. DP with the cure for what ails us.
DP!!!!!
DP DP DP pleeease.
You got it!
Caratini, you’re supposed to be an automatic out.
Hit it a cm above Seager’s glove.
I think you meant less than half an inch.
Careful your Americanism is showing! Lol
Can you catch a ball Dodgers?
So – you were saying something San Diego?
CT3RBI
¡Esa pelota nunca volverá!
Woot! CT3!
CT3 for 3!!!
Joining you after an afternoon of my three-year-old granddaughter and family. We had the game in the iPad but things are looking up! Go Dodgers!
Perfect night for Muncy!
Max on base again!
The pinch hitting seems to have revived.
Sac fly.
Mookie bets on his wheels.
Dodgers are alive and well…
Another error!
Nope, scored a single.
True. But given his track record…
PHs are starting to produce.
Sheldon!!
Make some noise!
“Does this thing go up to 11 (k)?”
Not for the moment.
I butchered the Spinal Tap quote. But it’s okay. Inning over.
With runners on base, Dodger pitchers seem absent-minded.
Attended the Jon Lester school of pitching
Burgers all around!
Up to Barnes to produce again.
Might need to swing soon Austin.
Dustin May is throwing straight heat and spinning darts out there tonight!
Straight heat? I am seeing what a golfer might call sliced heat.
Ha! You are right. I should have said that he was throwing high heat!
Maybe if your eyes were fully healed–too soon?
Tatis now has 7 HRs and 9 errors in 14 games.
15 games now. He’s on pace for roughly 90 E’s.
And 75 dingers.
Seager with his annual triple.
His token triple. Normally he has to reach third so he can score on a double.
He had five triples in 2016. That was his only season with more than one. This was his first this year.
Is a Caratini a martini with a carrot in it?
In The Netherlands, https://modernfarmer.com/2015/07/well-have-the-carrot-liqueur-please/
Interesting.
Musgrove got out of that cheaply in terms of runs. But over 30 pitches thrown that inning for sure.
Pitches through two innings: Musgrove 42, May 21.
Barnes with the jam shot into RF!
Personal update:
I had a rough week last week, as I had 2 more surgeries for my second detached retina condition this year. Between surgeries on Tues and Fri, I also got my first shot of vaccine on Wed – which led to a few days of feeling feverish and very tired.
So sorry to hear this.
Rough week indeed. Which vaccine did you get?
AZ.
Stay away from BadGums.
Lol!
Thanks Scoop. Yeah it was a surprising development. I’m doing better with it now, but I was a bit discouraged for a day or two.
All the best Dave!
Thanks Bob! (Just got back from a walk with my wife.)
That is a rough week. Sending you thoughts of support.
Not surprised that Raley fanned. Hope to be surprised by Barnes bringing in a run.
And?
Thank you, Barnes!
C’mon. Matt, prove me wrong.
He got a hit, in a manner of speaking.
Well, he did get hit…
With the Giants having won today, this qualifies as a somewhat important early-season game. If we beat the Padres, we would lead the Giants by 2 and San Diego by 5. If we lose, the leads are 1 and 3, respectively.
Bumgarner pitched a “no-hitter” for Arizona at Atlanta in the second game of a DH today. But it doesn’t count as an official no-hitter because it was only a 7-inning game. All doubleheaders are a pair of 7-inning games this season. Arizona won 7-0 after winning the first game 5-0 on Gallen’s one-hitter. He lost his “no-hit” bid on a Freddie Freeman single with one out in the 6th inning.
As it should not.
No argument from me. MLB should not have 7-inning games. Leave those to the PCL and California League and other minor leagues.
For this season alone, I can live with seven-inning doubleheader games, but the runner on second is a true abomination.
What I find truly weird is the leadoff batter in an extra-inning hitting a two-run homer.
I loved seeing Fernando in the outfield in the 22nd inning in Chicago.
In terms of all the weird baseball things recently, for me the weirdest is an 8 (or 9) inning extra-inning game!!!
High school teams around here play 7-inning games. I went to one last week that went 8 innings. That’s fine for high schools.
Not exactly looking forward to the Sunday Night Blackout. I will be relying on Gameday, Jaime Jarrín, and y’all.