Whole lotta goose eggs in that box score. If the Dodgers and their ice-cold bats were going to win tonight, something different had to happen. After all, they left men stranded everywhere all night. But Greinke pitched flawlessly and the Dodgers found themselves in a scoreless tie with two out and Kiké Hernandez on third in the ninth. Hernandez juked, Rangers pitcher Keone Kela flinched, and the balkoff win was in the books.
The Dodgers' three-game losing streak ends in the most ignominious of ways, but (everybody together now) we'll take it.
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Couldn't believe Collapso GIDPd right before this, with two on, none out, in the bottom of the ninth.
Get that guy off the team.
I still don't understand the trade. Gotta figure he'll be sent packing when Olivera Newton John is ready.
I've scoured Baseball Reference and Retrosheet but I can not find another instance of a balk-off which is also the only run of the game. Baseball is so wonderfully weird.
Last I checked (and I am too lazy to do it now), Uribe was not batting that well with the Braves (just as he was, it wasn't, with us).
Uribe is batting .338/.402/.473 with 2 HR for Atlanta
Last Balk Off for the Dodgers was in 2012 and it was the bearded one himself Casey Blake that drew it.
or 2011
Or 2010 even!
Beat me to it, Gnomes!
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