Dodgers at Cardinals, 10:15 AM PDT, FS-M, MLBN (out-of-market only), SPNLA
The Dodgers ask RHP Walker Buehler (1-0, 6.75 ERA) to stop the bleeding and salvage one game in this four-game set. He’ll face the Cards’ RHP Michael Wacha, (0-0, 1.54 ERA). Buehler went five innings and got the win his last time out against the Rockies, while Wacha somehow got past 8 walks in 5 2/3 innings in his last start, giving up only one run to the Padres and getting no decision. Wacha’s given up 12 walks in 11 2/3 innings this year while striking out 14.
Today in Dodgers’ history:
- 1912 Rube Marquard begins a nineteen-game consecutive winning streak by beating the Dodgers, 18-3, in a game which features 13 ground rule doubles hit by the visitors because of the overflow crowd being placed in the outfield and along the foul lines. The future Hall of Fame southpaw’s streak will end in July when the Giants lose to Chicago at the West Side Grounds, 7-2.
- 1961 Robin Roberts, in his twelfth-straight Opening Day start, is tagged with the loss when the Phillies lose to the Dodgers in the LA Memorial Coliseum, 6-2. The right-hander’s effort ties Grover Cleveland Alexander’s National League record for consecutive season openers.
Lineup when available.
Today’s Dodger lineup at Cardinals:
Pederson LF
Turner 3B
Seager SS
Pollock CF
Muncy 2B
Freese 1B
Hernández RF
Gale C
Buehler P#Dodgers | @Biofreeze pic.twitter.com/J198y0ITky— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 11, 2019