Giants at Dodgers, 4:10 PM PDT, TV: ESPN
RHP Ryan Walker (4-3, 3.20 ERA) goes for the Giants and RHP Lance Lynn (12-11, 5.92 ERA) does the same for the Dodgers in their last home game of the regular season.
- 1957 Grounding out, Pirates left-handed first baseman Dee Fondy becomes the last player ever to bat in Ebbets Field when the Dodgers blank the Bucs 2-0 in the final major league game ever played in Brooklyn.
- 1971 Al Downing becomes a 20-game winner when he blanks the Braves at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, 2-0. The Dodger left-hander, best remembered for giving up Hank Aaron’s historic 715th home run, will compile a 123-107 record during his 17-year major league career.
- 1981 Dodgers 7, Giants 5 at Candlestick. The Dodgers got a three-run homer from Mike Scioscia and two more runs in the third inning to put themselves ahead. The game was — marred? supplemented? — when a fan threw a helmet and — well, here:
Reggie Smith went into the stands after a fan who had been heckling him during the game; the fan had just thrown a batting helmet into the dugout before Smith climbed into the stands; Smith punched the fan and tried to pull him over the rail onto the field; Dodger teammates grabbed Smith; eight fans were arrested and Smith was ejected by HP umpire Harry Wendelstedt; as two policemen walked with Smith down the RF line to the clubhouse, someone threw a beer bottle and missed.
- 2001 Batting for reliever Joe Beimel in the bottom of the sixth inning, Craig Wilson drives the first pitch he sees into the seats in left center for his seventh pinch-hit home run, tying the major league mark established last season by Dodger infielder Dave Hansen. The Pirate rookie’s two-run round-tripper sparks a five-run frame, enabling the Bucs to overcome a 5-0 deficit in their eventual 7-6 victory over the Chicago at PNC Park.
- 2003 Eric Gagne ties John Smoltz’s National League mark for saves with 55 when he helps the Dodgers defeat the Padres, 5-3. The Los Angeles closer equals the NL mark in consecutive opportunities, which is also a record.
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NPUT @ 0700 HST, 1000 PDT, 1300 EDT
Hot Damn!!! Way to go CT3.
Yippee!
CT3 star of the game.
Him and Outie I guess.
Pen should get some credit, and even Lynn was decent.
Yep, JO33 also.
Dodgers win it!!
Woo-HOO!!!
Ok CT3. End it.
Time for some Dodger walk-off baseball.
No eyes here but, if it was a grounder back to Miller, why didn’t he go for the force at the plate first?
It deflected off him. Which made the degree of difficulty for CT3 a bit greater.
Oh, OK.
What a double play!!!
Dodger relievers really walking the tight rope tonight.
Just like they drew it up! Lol
Oh Kiké – really? I know the light is bad, but…
Oh Geez. You’ve got to be kidding me.
Oh dang Kiké.
Shoulda been caught?
Yes sir.
He lost it in the flat light but totally should have caught it.
It’s good that Doc pinch hits for our starting center fielder now in the regular season, so he can see the result (opposing mgr changes pitchers, & now we have a weaker defensive player in CF). Hopefully he doesn’t make the same mistake in the postseason.
In a meaningless game (at least for Dodgers, if gnot the Gnats).
Pitching around Joc.
Compliment for Joc
Nice K, Miller!
Rogers drives me nuts with his delivery.
Could use another extra base hit here JD.
Just missed Will.
What happened?
Line drive down the left field line missed being a double by a foot as it went foul.
Woosh. Freddie has not looked great today.
Freddie needs to take some games off.
That would have been way more nerve-racking if it was a few weeks later.
I really thought Ramos was going to try to run home there.
Maybe he should’ve. Nice work by Phillips to get out of it.
EP didn’t even look at third.
Was there a play?
Yes.
Catcher should call it.
Come on EP. Let’s have a scoreless inning please.
Close but I guess they did get Mookie there.
I hope the Cheating Astros don’t make the playoffs.
Got swept by the 54-102 Royals. Couldn’t happen to a more deserving team, but the Mariners flopped against the Llaneros too.
Maybe th Mariners will find their mojo again and sweep the Astros as well.
That would be.
That is what I am hoping for. At least take 2 of 3.
They’re only half a game behind the Trashtros.
Okay, J-Hey, do some good on the offensive side now.
Heyward can still shovel out there!
Looks like Doc wants to win this one.
Every team ahead of the Gnats in the mild card chase won today, so they’ll be eliminated soon. If they lose now, the Pads will tie them for third.
I prefer the Giants in the wildcard over other teams.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/769ffbde98f75b08930822b6ac0d0c2df655f6923828a9d8f0166ce690945f13.png Cubbies, Snakes, Comrades are all better teams, but it’s always satisfying to see the Gnats get swatted.
Prize Gnatrook Luciano has a hat trick.
CS!
Got him!
Mookie is an unbelievable athlete.
Yes.
I’ll take him over Acuna everyday.
Other things being equal, he’s more versatile, certainly, but Acuña is much younger, will be around longer.
Because the Dodgers are not real strong at second and because Rojas wasn’t hitting for most of the season, Betts was very valuable because he could get Heyward into the game in exchange for a weaker middle infielder hitter.
Atlanta didn’t have a Heyward to get into the game and were stronger up the middle. Betts would not have been as valuable if her were on the Braves.
There are some apples and oranges involved here.
I’m sure the Barves could make room for him.
And yet, I believe in him
Hard to imagine Lynn pitching into the 5th with only a 2 run lead in the playoffs.
Good point. That immediately made me feel better.
Lance Lynn gives it up again – two-two tie
But no further damage.
Lance is back, apparently.
Ball four, Ump, not strike three.
https://twitter.com/DodgerInsider/status/1706092194472530169
Too bad they couldn’t get Mookie home.
Smith hitting better but still finding a fielder
Found a video that escaped the blackout – https://twitter.com/Dodgers/status/1706092107507929543
That was a great escape catch there, Lance!
The Spanish-language radio team let out a “Gracias, ¡Thairo.”
Kersh got a kick out of it
I’m beginning to suspect Lance Lynn is not an efficient pitch-count guy.
More like the Fernando school of pitching.
I had much more confidence in Fernando.
Baseball used to be a contact sport. https://twitter.com/nut_history/status/1706084554816045425
Wow. A lot happened there.
Got him!
I wonder where Joc will be playing next year. The Gnats didn’t expect him to take the qualifying offer, so they really had to overpay him this season.
I think they definitely thought he would accept it and felt they had to offer it to get him.
Kershaw was interviewed in game and clearly he still likes Joc.
Get Joc.
ESPN is the worst of the blackouts, because they don’t even allow highlight videos on Gameday until it’s all over.
You can always show yourself in another state at a minor cost.
Unless you’re willing to pay the extortionists at Comcast, ESPN is always a blackout.
Maybe weighing cost over value?
ESPN’s value is approaching zero.