MLB Trade Rumors has the official status of each of the Dodgers who were on the roster at the end of the 2022 season.
From guaranteed contracts to free agents, nearly everyone we know is listed, and there are a couple I don’t know too.
Here’s the LA Times’ Houston Mitchell with his own roundup at Dodgers Dugout. Mitchell does a little more explaining of the rules and conditions for each status.
Dodgers at Angels, 6:40 PM PDT, TV: FS-W, SPNLA
LHP Clayton Kershaw (1-1, 3.60 ERA) pitches for the visiting Dodgers against the Angels’ LHP Patrick Sandoval (0-1, 2.70 ERA). Kershaw gave up three homers to the Giants (the Giants!) and lasted only 4 1/3 innings. Sandoval’s last start was pretty good: he went six innings against the Rangers and gave up just two runs.
The LA Times has a whole bevy of interesting Dodgers stories today:
In Houston Mitchell’s Dodgers Dugout he lists all the Dodgers (Brooklyn and LA) who have hit three homers in a game; I was surprised to see that Adrian Gonzalez had done it twice while in a Dodgers uniform, and of the current players, Pollock, Turner, Seager and Hernandez have all done it in the last three years.
The LA Times’s game story recapping Mookie Betts’ 3-HR game is full of quotes from the happy guy.
The LA Times’s Bill Plaschke writes about his experience with COVID-19 in his column today.
Yesterday’s game had so many highlights that it takes five minutes of video to show them all:
Today in Dodgers’ history:
Also, in 2015 the Padres’ Matt Kemp hits a ninth-inning triple to complete the cycle, making him the first player in the 35-year history of the franchise to accomplish the feat. The San Diego outfielder’s home run in the first, single in the third, and double in the seventh contribute to the team’s 9-5 victory over Colorado at Coors Field.
Lineup:
From The Athletic:
Machado and the Dodgers’ attempts to keep him from pressing.
Freese, seemingly impervious to big-moment pressure.
Madson and the late-season adjustment.
From the LA Times:
Plaschke on Game Four.
Dylan Hernandez on Freese.
Andy McCullough on Machado and more.
Jorge Castillo and Andy McCullough on NLCS Game One starter Kershaw.
Houston Mitchell on the Dodgers’ previous results against the Brewers.
In his regular Dodgers Dugout column Houston Mitchell of the LA Times does a position-by-position comparison between the Dodgers and Astros, which I think is tilted a little toward his hometown team. But here’s what I found interesting in the column: a discussion of ticket pricing and a prescription for what to do about the secondary market.
There’s something wrong in the world when I can fly to Houston, stay overnight and buy a ticket for a World Series game there for cheaper than I can stay in L.A. and buy a ticket for a game here.
Places like StubHub are asking for $1,250 for a seat in the top deck. Unless you were the lucky ones to win the chance to buy tickets through the Dodgers.com lottery, there’s no way an average fan can attend a game. That’s a crime. I have kids to send to college. Am I supposed to tell them, “Sorry, no college for you so we can go to a World Series game?”
If I was the Dodgers, here’s what I would do:
1. Discover which Dodgers fans are selling their tickets through a secondary market for a jacked-up price and bar them from ever buying a postseason ticket again.
2. Buy up as many secondary tickets as I could and pull more names from the online lottery. Sell the tickets to those people.
I was curious and looked at StubHub; I discovered that the least-expensive ticket available for a game at Dodger Stadium was $950, and that was a week ago. I don’t know if Mitchell’s suggestion would work, but he’s definitely got a point. Of course, this isn’t new. I remember a Roger Angell column from 40 years ago in which he wrote of a conversation with a player in the Series who looked up in the stands and asked “where are all the people who were here all year,” meaning all the seats were now in the hands and fannies of corporations and the like, not the long-term fans.
Seager is healthy enough to play, they and he say. Also, Charlie Culberson kept the ball he caught for the final out of NLCS Game Four, but he hasn’t yet found a really good place to display it.
Here’s an interview with Orel Hershiser in which he insists that what he did in 1988 (and there’s a brief recap of the number of appearances he made in the postseason) could still be done by today’s athletes if needed, but lineups and bullpens are built differently now.
Sports Illustrated baseball writers predict the Series outcome.
Dodgers at Marlins, 4:10 PM PT, TV: SPNLA, FS-F
The Dodgers come back from their mid-season break with RHP Brandon McCarthy (6-3, 3.12 ERA) on the Miami mound against the Marlins’ RHP Dan Straily (7-4, 3.31 ERA).
McCarthy came off the disabled list and pitched six innings of two-run ball against the Royals. Straily is coming off a career-high 8 1/3-inning performance against the Giants in which he gave up only four hits and one run.
The social whirl: Kiké Hernandez got engaged over the All Star break.
Houston Mitchell of the LA Times talks to Ross Porter about the infamous Reggie Jackson interference call in Game Four of the 1978 World Series. You’ll have to scroll about halfway down the column.
This date in Dodgers’ history:
Lineup when available.
Today's Dodger lineup at Marlins:
Taylor LF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Forsythe 2B
Pederson CF
Grandal C
Puig RF
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