Monday, September 25, 2017

Series Thread (Games 157-159): Sept 25-27 vs. Padres

There's an awful lot of Wood in this series.

If I understand the byzantine rules for home field advantage in the postseason, the Dodgers are in pretty good shape with a 4.5-game lead over the Nationals with six games to go. However, if that rule of "better regular season record" applies for the World Series (and I believe I've read at least one article claiming that the Dodgers would wield the advantage over Cleveland due to our head-to-head record--which really doesn't make sense), then we had better play hard, being only one game up on Cleveland and four games on Houston.

Whatever, I suppose. I'm still excited that we're in the postseason again.

Monday 9/25: Yu Darvish vs. Travis Wood (W, 9-3: Puig benched for showing up late; Forsythe 3-for-3 with 4 RBI; Darvish 7.0 IP with 1 ER and 9 Ks; Baez still sucks)

Tuesday 9/26: Alex Wood vs. Dinelson Lamet (W, 9-2: Dodgers clinch home-field advantage through NLCS; Puig back in the lineup but goes 1-for-3; Alex Wood 6.0 IP with 2 ER and 1 K; Grandal and Seager each with a three-run HR; A-Gon with a solo HR of his own; Baez did not pitch today but still sucks)

Wednesday 9/27: Rich Hill vs. Clayton Richard (W, 10-0: Rich Hill goes 7.0 IP with 10Ks and 0 ER; McCarthy and Jansen each pitch a scoreless inning of relief with 2 Ks each; Puig, Granderson, and Seager all hit solo HRs; Dodgers bat around in the third for four runs; Taylor gets hurt and leaves in the first after tweaking his knee running to first; Baez did not pitch again but I am sure he still sucks)

62 comments:

QuadSevens said...

Yuuuu had a no hitter going for a while. Currently 8-1 in the bottom of the seventh.

QuadSevens said...

Logie Bear and Barnes have bombs tonight.

QuadSevens said...

Maeda coming in to pitch the 8th.

Steve Sax said...

Darvish had a great outing.

Maeda, not so much

Why the hell is Baez pitching for god's sake

Steve Sax said...

Baez escapes

Unfortunately he hasn't escaped the team.

WIN

Steve Sax said...

Dodgers win, 9-3

QuadSevens said...

Maeda didn't get much help from his defense. A hit batter, passed ball, then two infield singles and a botched double play.

Orel said...

GAME 2
Utley 2B
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Bellinger CF
Grandal C
Puig RF
González 1B
Ethier LF
Wood P

Steve Sax said...

Taylor, Forsythe sit

But Puig is back!

Steve Sax said...

let's

play

ball

Steve Sax said...

One pitch, one out. Nice start for Alex.

Steve Sax said...

Slow dribbler allows Christian Villanueva to reach. One on, one out.

Steve Sax said...

Wil Myers grounds out 2-3. Villanueva to second.

Steve Sax said...

Hunter Renfroe with a 1-3 ground out.

Wood with six pitches in the first, five for strikes; no ball was hit into mid-outfield depths. Okay.

0-0 through 0.5

Steve Sax said...

Puig sporting some fancy shaves on the side of his head. Glad he's taking the two days' benching seriously.

Steve Sax said...

Utley with a leadoff walk to start the first.

Steve Sax said...

Utley steals second

Steve Sax said...

Seager Ks. Didn't look good on that 87-MPH slider.

Steve Sax said...

Turner Ks, also on a slider (85mph). Two out. We're going to strand Utley, unless Codylove can happen

Steve Sax said...

Cody Ks looking. What a wasted opportunity.

0-for-3 with RISP

0-0 through 1

Steve Sax said...

Puig gives one a ride but it's a fly out to right-center. Here's A-Gon with two out in the bottom of the second.

Steve Sax said...

A-Gon, two-out double. IBB Ethier to get to Wood.

Steve Sax said...

Wood Ks. 0-0 through 2.

Steve Sax said...

Now 0-for-4 with RISP, through 2

Steve Sax said...

Okay gotta hop with one out and one on in the top of the third. Still scoreless. Wood at 30 pitches.

Steve Sax said...

Why do our fans keep interfering

Steve Sax said...

Grandal with a three-run bomb! Two two-out walks helped this out. 4-2 LA

Steve Sax said...

Nats and Indians both lost today

QuadSevens said...

Bellinger guns a runner at the plate! Great throw!

QuadSevens said...

5-2 Dodgers at the stretch.

QuadSevens said...

AGon!!

Steve Sax said...

Seager's RBI single makes it 5-2.

Hey Quad, I haven't seen Bellinger's out, but that's particularly awesome as Cody is in center field

Steve Sax said...

Wow A-Gon with a HR. 6-2. If this team starts seeing A-Gon heat up and Grandal heat up...

Steve Sax said...

Bottom 7, one out (Puig leadoff K), 6-2 LA.

Steve Sax said...

Two-out double by PH Granderson

QuadSevens said...

Hi Sax. It was a hard line drive to center that Bellinger charged and threw a bullet to home to nail the runner by half a step.

Steve Sax said...

Forsythe works a walk. Two on, two out, B7. Corey up.

QuadSevens said...

Seager!!

Orel said...

Are the Pads bad or are we getting good again?

QuadSevens said...

Yes.

Steve Sax said...

Seager HR! Another three-run HR makes it 9-2 Dodgers. End 7.

Steve Sax said...

It is really hard to tell if this is us or just the Pads. I suppose the Rox series at year's end will be a barometer.

Steve Sax said...

Culberson in for Seager at SS.
Segedin in for A-Gon at first.
Barnes in for Granderson at second.
Forsythe switches to third. Tony Watson replaces Justin Turner's spot in the lineup.

I'm so confused

Steve Sax said...

Watson gets Yangervis Solarte to ground to short. Who is now Charlie Culberson.

QuadSevens said...

Anyone keeping score at the game tonight has a messy book for sure.

Steve Sax said...

Jabari Blash, groundout 4-3. Two out

Steve Sax said...

Aybar groundout 3 (to first). 9-2 LA, mid-8

Steve Sax said...

Verdugo PH for Bellinger. I remember that guy!

Steve Sax said...

Can I make 18K more points in the last 1d 10h to get a 14th Riri cover?

Oh wait, wrong game.

Steve Sax said...

Verdugo works a 3-0 count into a lineout at third.

Pederson walks. (I remember that guy!)

Farmer singles so we have first and second with one out.

Steve Sax said...

Barnes pops out, infield fly roule. Two out for O'Koyea Dickson, born in 1990

Steve Sax said...

And, O'Koyea pops to catcher. 9-2 through 8

QuadSevens said...

Win number 101!

Steve Sax said...

Wow, Brock Lobster pitches a scoreless ninth.

Dodgers win 9-2.

Steve Sax said...

Post-Game Series Thread updated!

(man, that just does not roll off the tongue at all.)

Orel said...

WIN

Orel said...

GAME 3
Taylor CF
Seager SS
Turner 3B
Bellinger 1B
Hernández LF
Forsythe 2B
Barnes C
Puig RF
Hill P

Steve Sax said...

7-0 LA through three. Wow.

Hope Taylor is ok though

Steve Sax said...

Even Rich Hill has a RBI

QuadSevens said...

10-0 win in the final home game of the regular season. Sweep!

Steve Sax said...

Good news: sweep, big offensive showings, good starting pitching

Bad news: it's the Padres, so who the hell knows

Steve Sax said...

NPUT