At least for a year. Manfred made a mockery of baseball by not dealing with the Cheatros harshly.
They deserved the Shoeless Joe treatment (though he himself was treated unfairly).
Facing Day Six of Blackout Week, I bit the bullet and reopened my expired Apple TV subscription. Not exclusively for baseball, however – I also want to watch the last two seasons of Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as a washed-up MI-5 operative overseeing a cast of inept subordinates that the agency apparently can't fire.
Regarding yesterday's game, I'd sooner have seen Logan Webb-Steroids take the L – in my opinion he's the league's MOP (Most Overrated Player) and the smarmiest interview you'll ever see – but Ahmed's game-winner was also satisfying.
Dodgers
62 – 42
vs
Astros
53 – 49
Valdez, F.
LHP, #59
8 – 5, 3.63 ERA
vs
Stone
RHP, #35
9 – 3, 3.19 ERA
Lineup:
DH Ohtani L
C Smith R
RF Hernández, T. R
CF Pages R
LF Vargas R
3B Hernández, K. R
1B Biggio L
SS Ahmed R
2B Lux L
That was a dreary game.
With the exception of the series vs, Boston and the Giants, there have been many such games since mid-May.
The depleted roster will recover soon.
Tomorrow will be better.
Kiké really looked mortified after that mistake at second.
Not looking hopeful.
You can tell which team had a day off. We seem tired and sluggish.
Nice catch by Biggio.
Difficult (but I've made that play in softball, without having to run so far).
Dodgers trade James Paxton to Boston for 17 year old corner infielder Moises Bolivar.
Bolivar was signed by the Red Sox in 2024. In 31 games with the Dominican Summer League Red Sox Blue this season, the right-handed hitter has batted .270 with a .787 OPS while making 23 starts at third base, three at first base, and five as the designated hitter.
Interesting. I wonder if Moises Bolivar is he any relation to Simon Bolivar, who led to independence the current nations of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia from the brutal Spanish Empire? Bolivar just turned 17 this month. He is from Venezuela and he was 16 when he started playing in the Dominican Summer League this year.
According to https://forebears.io/surnames/bolivar , there are about 150,000 Bolívars in the world, roughly half of them in Venezuela and nearly 30 percent in Colombia. It's conceivable there's a kinship link, but tracing it could mean a lot of work.
Well, then you and I should get started on this! I expect that Simon Bolivar was quite a stud.
Simón Bolívar was a criollo (American-born Spaniard), and there remain about 4,400 of that surname in Spain. His Spanish wife died young and he never married again, though he apparently had some affairs.
He overran second and got tagged out before Vargas stepped on the plate.
Oh boy.
It's on Quique.
So Hernandez was thrown out before the run scored? I am confused. (Not for the first time.)
Yes. They challenged and won the challenge.
Milwaukee Keggers have a pitcher named Junk.
Yarbrouigh gets cheated out of strike three, and then Meyers doubles.
Hate it when that happens.
And it leads to a run.
Kenley just got the save v. the Yanquis, and I'm fine with that.
So sloppy.
So dumb.
No eyes, no ears, no Apple, but gee whiz, Enrique.
Kimbrel gives up 2 in the 9th. So far. He is so bad!
Against Profar, who'd homered earlier, with first base empty. Profar's career year, at age 31, raises possible PED suspicions – far better than anything else in his 12 MLB years.
Rats.
Ouch
Sigh.
Up to Teo.
Orioles are trusting Kimbrel v. tbe Fryers in a tie game in the ninth.
Tying run at the plate, so that is something
Up to Will.
Tough lefty for Lux too get a hit off of
Finally, Luxie gets on base.
Geeze, Valdez is making us look like idiots.
Stoney is leaving too many pitches in the middle of the plate.
And their guy is not.
Yuck
If the Black Sox movie was "Eight Men Out," what should be the title of 2017 Trashtros version?
Take Out The Trash.
How about "Dumpsterball?"
Bang the Drum Repeatedly.
Winner
I'll defer to Scoop, but I still like Dumpsterball.
How many times are they going to show that Bregman home run?
Bregman is worst of the worst (after Altuve, perhaps).
Bregman is worst of the worst (after Altuve, perhaps).
Besides Altuve and Bregman, who is left from the 2017 team?
Not sure, but they all should've been suspended for life.
Harder without Freddie.
Much.
That’s better. Now we need to score a bunch of runs.
Pitch count rising for Stoner.
Only three in our batting order played for the Dodgers last season: Smith, Vargas and Enrique.
Stone got off the mound quickly and fired a bullet, but guessing that Jordan is not fleet of foot
Pages now 4-for-26.
For a young player, he's been asked to do a lot. But for the unprecedented injuries, he'd probably be in OKC.
Crowd are umps. Bad ones at that.
Ohtani wheels.
Apple TV intro to game doesn't mention Trashtros' cheating in 2017.
I am sure that MLB discouraged such.
No surprise to me that it wasn’t mentioned.
It should never go unmentioned whenever and wherever the Trashtros play. Biggest on-field scandal since 1951.
Dodgers by the month this year:
March, 4-2, .667 — tied for 1st at end of month
April, 15-11, .577 — 4 games up at end of month
May, 17-10, .630 — 5.5 games up at end of month
June 16-10, .615 — 7.5 games up at end of month
July 10-9, .526 — 7.5 games up currently
Dodgers vs. NL West:
Giants, 9-4 (series completed)
Rockies, 5-2 (6 games remaining
Diamondbacks, 4-5 (4 games remaining)
Padres, 3-5 (5 games remaining)
Cumulative 21-16 (15 games remaining)
The Dodgers play each of their NL West rivals only 13 times this season
Most games over .500: 20, after play on June 26, June 29, July 6, July 23 and yesterday.
Most games under .500: Never. We were 1-1 after the first 2 games.
Biggie is playing 1B for Freddie who flew back to LA for his sick son Max who is in the hospital.
1948 Former Dodger skipper Leo Durocher, who left the team ten days ago, makes his first appearance at Ebbets Field since taking over the Giants. The return of 'the Lip' is less-than-triumphant when his new team drops a 13-4 decision to Brooklyn.
1951 In a 9-1 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field, Jim Russell becomes the first player in major league history to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in two different games. Mickey Mantle surpasses the Dodger outfielder's accomplishment in 1956 when he goes deep right and left-handed in the same game for the third time.
1960 The Phillies end their scoreless streak of thirty-eight consecutive innings when Johnny Callison plates Tony Gonzalez with a sixth-inning single in the team's 4-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Philadelphia's drought began when the team failed to score in the last six frames of a 3-0 win against the Giants at Candlestick Park and continued being shut out in three straight games (2-0, 2-0, and 9-0) by the Dodgers in Los Angeles.
1991 Mark Gardner no-hits the Dodgers for nine innings, but Los Angeles wins the game in the bottom of the tenth on two singles off the Expos' starter and Darryl Strawberry's RBI single off reliever Jeff Fassero. It's the first time the Dodgers had been hitless at home for nine innings since Johnny Vander Meer's second straight no-hitter in 1938.
At least for a year. Manfred made a mockery of baseball by not dealing with the Cheatros harshly.
They deserved the Shoeless Joe treatment (though he himself was treated unfairly).
Facing Day Six of Blackout Week, I bit the bullet and reopened my expired Apple TV subscription. Not exclusively for baseball, however – I also want to watch the last two seasons of Slow Horses, starring Gary Oldman as a washed-up MI-5 operative overseeing a cast of inept subordinates that the agency apparently can't fire.
Regarding yesterday's game, I'd sooner have seen Logan Webb-Steroids take the L – in my opinion he's the league's MOP (Most Overrated Player) and the smarmiest interview you'll ever see – but Ahmed's game-winner was also satisfying.
Dodgers
62 – 42
vs
Astros
53 – 49
Valdez, F.
LHP, #59
8 – 5, 3.63 ERA
vs
Stone
RHP, #35
9 – 3, 3.19 ERA
Lineup:
DH Ohtani L
C Smith R
RF Hernández, T. R
CF Pages R
LF Vargas R
3B Hernández, K. R
1B Biggio L
SS Ahmed R
2B Lux L
That was a dreary game.
With the exception of the series vs, Boston and the Giants, there have been many such games since mid-May.
The depleted roster will recover soon.
Tomorrow will be better.
Kiké really looked mortified after that mistake at second.
Not looking hopeful.
You can tell which team had a day off. We seem tired and sluggish.
Nice catch by Biggio.
Difficult (but I've made that play in softball, without having to run so far).
Dodgers trade James Paxton to Boston for 17 year old corner infielder Moises Bolivar.
Bolivar was signed by the Red Sox in 2024. In 31 games with the Dominican Summer League Red Sox Blue this season, the right-handed hitter has batted .270 with a .787 OPS while making 23 starts at third base, three at first base, and five as the designated hitter.
Interesting. I wonder if Moises Bolivar is he any relation to Simon Bolivar, who led to independence the current nations of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Panama, and Bolivia from the brutal Spanish Empire? Bolivar just turned 17 this month. He is from Venezuela and he was 16 when he started playing in the Dominican Summer League this year.
According to https://forebears.io/surnames/bolivar , there are about 150,000 Bolívars in the world, roughly half of them in Venezuela and nearly 30 percent in Colombia. It's conceivable there's a kinship link, but tracing it could mean a lot of work.
Well, then you and I should get started on this! I expect that Simon Bolivar was quite a stud.
Simón Bolívar was a criollo (American-born Spaniard), and there remain about 4,400 of that surname in Spain. His Spanish wife died young and he never married again, though he apparently had some affairs.
He overran second and got tagged out before Vargas stepped on the plate.
Oh boy.
It's on Quique.
So Hernandez was thrown out before the run scored? I am confused. (Not for the first time.)
Yes. They challenged and won the challenge.
Milwaukee Keggers have a pitcher named Junk.
Yarbrouigh gets cheated out of strike three, and then Meyers doubles.
Hate it when that happens.
And it leads to a run.
Kenley just got the save v. the Yanquis, and I'm fine with that.
So sloppy.
So dumb.
No eyes, no ears, no Apple, but gee whiz, Enrique.
Unacceptable.
Shohei woulda been the tying run.
Shohei woulda been the tying run.
Well, that’s unfortunate
Meanwhile, in the Dust Bowl, https://x.com/DodgerInsider/status/1817016826729292234
Kimbrel gives up 2 in the 9th. So far. He is so bad!
Against Profar, who'd homered earlier, with first base empty. Profar's career year, at age 31, raises possible PED suspicions – far better than anything else in his 12 MLB years.
Rats.
Ouch
Sigh.
Up to Teo.
Orioles are trusting Kimbrel v. tbe Fryers in a tie game in the ninth.
Tying run at the plate, so that is something
Up to Will.
Tough lefty for Lux too get a hit off of
Finally, Luxie gets on base.
Geeze, Valdez is making us look like idiots.
Stoney is leaving too many pitches in the middle of the plate.
And their guy is not.
Yuck
If the Black Sox movie was "Eight Men Out," what should be the title of 2017 Trashtros version?
Take Out The Trash.
How about "Dumpsterball?"
Bang the Drum Repeatedly.
Winner
I'll defer to Scoop, but I still like Dumpsterball.
How many times are they going to show that Bregman home run?
Bregman is worst of the worst (after Altuve, perhaps).
Bregman is worst of the worst (after Altuve, perhaps).
Besides Altuve and Bregman, who is left from the 2017 team?
Not sure, but they all should've been suspended for life.
Harder without Freddie.
Much.
That’s better. Now we need to score a bunch of runs.
Pitch count rising for Stoner.
Only three in our batting order played for the Dodgers last season: Smith, Vargas and Enrique.
Stone got off the mound quickly and fired a bullet, but guessing that Jordan is not fleet of foot
Pages now 4-for-26.
For a young player, he's been asked to do a lot. But for the unprecedented injuries, he'd probably be in OKC.
Crowd are umps. Bad ones at that.
Ohtani wheels.
Apple TV intro to game doesn't mention Trashtros' cheating in 2017.
I am sure that MLB discouraged such.
No surprise to me that it wasn’t mentioned.
It should never go unmentioned whenever and wherever the Trashtros play. Biggest on-field scandal since 1951.
Dodgers by the month this year:
March, 4-2, .667 — tied for 1st at end of month
April, 15-11, .577 — 4 games up at end of month
May, 17-10, .630 — 5.5 games up at end of month
June 16-10, .615 — 7.5 games up at end of month
July 10-9, .526 — 7.5 games up currently
Dodgers vs. NL West:
Giants, 9-4 (series completed)
Rockies, 5-2 (6 games remaining
Diamondbacks, 4-5 (4 games remaining)
Padres, 3-5 (5 games remaining)
Cumulative 21-16 (15 games remaining)
The Dodgers play each of their NL West rivals only 13 times this season
Most games over .500: 20, after play on June 26, June 29, July 6, July 23 and yesterday.
Most games under .500: Never. We were 1
-1after the first 2 games.Biggie is playing 1B for Freddie who flew back to LA for his sick son Max who is in the hospital.
Here is the latest that I could find:
https://www.eonline.com/news/1405467/dodgers-player-freddie-freemans-3-year-old-son-cant-stand-or-walk-amid-viral-infection
Poor little guy. I hope he gets better quickly.
Pretty cool to see Ahmed torch his old team, the Gnats. https://twitter.com/i/status/1816609107249627143
Today in Dodgers History
July 26th
1948 Former Dodger skipper Leo Durocher, who left the team ten days ago, makes his first appearance at Ebbets Field since taking over the Giants. The return of 'the Lip' is less-than-triumphant when his new team drops a 13-4 decision to Brooklyn.
1951 In a 9-1 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field, Jim Russell becomes the first player in major league history to hit a home run from both sides of the plate in two different games. Mickey Mantle surpasses the Dodger outfielder's accomplishment in 1956 when he goes deep right and left-handed in the same game for the third time.
1960 The Phillies end their scoreless streak of thirty-eight consecutive innings when Johnny Callison plates Tony Gonzalez with a sixth-inning single in the team's 4-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Philadelphia's drought began when the team failed to score in the last six frames of a 3-0 win against the Giants at Candlestick Park and continued being shut out in three straight games (2-0, 2-0, and 9-0) by the Dodgers in Los Angeles.
1991 Mark Gardner no-hits the Dodgers for nine innings, but Los Angeles wins the game in the bottom of the tenth on two singles off the Expos' starter and Darryl Strawberry's RBI single off reliever Jeff Fassero. It's the first time the Dodgers had been hitless at home for nine innings since Johnny Vander Meer's second straight no-hitter in 1938.