Thursday, September 17, 2020

Series Thread (Games 41-44): Sept 17-20 @ Rockies

Thu 9.17 5.30p: Urias vs. Freeland
Fri 9.18 5p: TBD vs. Castellani
Sat 9.19 5p: Kershaw vs. TBD
Sun 9.20 12n: Gonsolin vs. Senzatela

Hot off of another series win in San Diego, the Dodgers now travel to Colorado for their last road series of the "season". It would be great to get some bats working here, especially since our bullpen is beleaguered (Kenley Jansen: shaky; Caleb Ferguson: injured; Joe Kelly: pouting; etc.). Max Muncy is right below the Mendoza line at .199, and I have a feeling he's due. Joc Pederson (.174) and Gavin Lux (.152), I'm not so sure. Nothing like four games @ Coors Field to get some Dingers going!

67 comments:

karen said...

Caleb Ferguson has to have another Tommy John. Poor kid. Out for this season and part of next.

karen said...

Doc says they are shooting for Tuesday to get Joc back.

karen said...

Everybody stop what your doing...Matty is at the plate!

karen said...

Mookie scores Kiki and puts us ahead for the first time tonight. 3-2 top of 7.

karen said...

All of the sudden a good ol' Coors Field game breaks out in Denver...Boys up 8-2 still in 7th.

karen said...

Corey coming up and needs a triple to hit for the cycle.

karen said...

Corey grounds out to first. 2 out in 8th and good guys leading 9-2.

karen said...

Trevor Story hits a ball to Pasadena. 9-3 good guys.

karen said...

WIN!!! Magic number is reduced to 5.

Orel said...

WIN

Orel said...

DAMMIT

Steve Sax said...

Hey thanks Karen for holding this game up! Will try to make it for tomorrow. I’m sleepy

Orel said...

GAME 2: GOOD JOB YESTERDAY KAREN
Betts, RF
Seager, SS
Taylor, LF
Muncy, 1B
Bellinger, CF
Pollock, DH
Rios, 3B
Lux, 2B
Barnes, C
Wood, P

QuadSevens said...

Happy 4+1 Anniversary! Dodgers pregame show talking about it today.

QuadSevens said...

Tiger and Phil did not make the cut in the US Open. This has been your golf update for the year.

Steve Sax said...

RIP RBG.

Steve Sax said...

Free delivery for Dodgers Home Plates this weekend (orders over $20)

Steve Sax said...

Belli bomb! 2-0 LA

Steve Sax said...

none out in the top of the second

Steve Sax said...

Rios stretches a single into a double, and then Lux comes up and hits a HR! 4-0 LA, one out in Top 2

Steve Sax said...

what was funny was, after Cody returned to the dugout, he whispered something to Lux to which Lux laughed. I wonder what it was. Both of them now have two-run HR here in the second inning.

Steve Sax said...

Alex Wood gives it right back on a three-run HR by Josh Fuentes. None out, bottom 2.

Steve Sax said...

4-3 LA

Steve Sax said...

dodgers have three of the six longest on-base streaks: Betts (who just extended to 18), Turner, and Smith (both idle tonight)

Steve Sax said...

bases loaded on the error. CT3 up, one out, T5

Steve Sax said...

CT first pitch swinging, single to left scores two (Barnes and Mookie). 6-3 LA. Castellani bounced, runners on first and second with one out.

Steve Sax said...

missed some of those runs, but Mookie just hit his 16th HR in the top of the sixth to make it 10-3 LA

Steve Sax said...

Pillar just made an incredible grab on a CT hit to center, but the ball escapes his glove upon Pillar's impact with the ground after the leap. So Corey Seager, who had singled with two out to beat the shift (he singled to short left), scored all the way from first.

11-3 LA, CT on 2nd, Muncy up

Steve Sax said...

Max flies to short left. man he is having a tough year.

Steve Sax said...

Floro gets Blackmon to hit into a double play. Two out, B6, 11-3 LA

Steve Sax said...

Good thing we got that DP because Floro has now given up two straight two-out singles, to Pillar and Fuentes.

Steve Sax said...

double scores both runners. 11-5.

Steve Sax said...

McGee replaces Floro, promptly serves up a single to make it 11-6. Still two out.

Steve Sax said...

finally a fly out to center. 11-6 through 6. Cody, AJ, and Rios coming up.

Steve Sax said...

"Everybody in the Dodger lineup but Austin Barnes has a hit." (To be fair Barnes was plunked in the back.)

Bellinger with a double to lead off the seventh.

Bellinger has a new wood-chopping celebration thing.

Steve Sax said...

PB to Pollock on pitch 1, Bellinger goes to third.

Steve Sax said...

Rios knocks in Bellinger. 12-6, one out, Rios on first with his RBI single.

Steve Sax said...

Barnes singles! First and third, two out, Mookie up with an 0-2 count.

Steve Sax said...

Only knuckle curves to Betts (five straight)

Steve Sax said...

Ball bounces off off Diaz, Barnes scampers to second.

Steve Sax said...

Betts hit it right beyond Pillar's glove in left center. Two more RBI!

Pillar is having a tough night. Betts gets a triple. Colorado's Wade Davis exits with two out and Mookie on third.

Steve Sax said...

Corey base hit to right, scores Betts. 15-6

Steve Sax said...

Lakers up 86-69 in the third, game 1 vs. Nuggets

Steve Sax said...

Joe Kelly just needed 8 pitches to retire the side in the seventh. He needed 8 pitches to get one out last night. Nothing to pout about tonight!

Steve Sax said...

St Kilda Saints beat the GWS Giants to make the final 8 in AFL. Wow

Steve Sax said...

i'm having gin and tonics right now at home. it's refreshing.

Steve Sax said...

Cody grounds to second. He's a triple short of the cycle, but he probably won't get it tonight.

I think Cody is the last Dodger to hit for the cycle, in 2017. Check out this article from mlb.com
https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/news/cody-bellinger-hits-for-the-cycle-vs-marlins-c242333532

July 15, 2017

MIAMI -- It's difficult to imagine that at 22 years of age, after celebrating a birthday on Thursday, Cody Bellinger is a rookie still learning the ropes in the Major Leagues -- at least off the field anyway.

The same guy that hit for the cycle, going 4-for-5 with a homer, three RBIs and two runs in the Dodgers' 7-1 win over the Marlins on Saturday night, just hours earlier wandered through the team's clubhouse searching for a plug to charge his phone, only to be informed that each player's locker is equipped with its own individual outlet.

That's good stuff, Cody!

Steve Sax said...

who is this guy batting for the Dodgers?!

Steve Sax said...

McKinstry. He Ks.

Steve Sax said...

Mitch White, Ks a Rockies player for the first out

Steve Sax said...

White gets Pillar to pop to Muncy at first. two out

Steve Sax said...

Mitch White gets a fly out to CF for the third out. 1-2-3 inning for White. Love it.

Steve Sax said...

Lakers 118, Nuggets 93: 5:03 left in the fourth

Steve Sax said...

Seager walks to load the bases. Two out, top 9.

Steve Sax said...

CT3 grounds to first. 15-6 LA, going to B9

Steve Sax said...

dodgers win 15-6! Mitch White pitches a great 8th and 9th. We need that

Steve Sax said...

Lakers win as well

Steve Sax said...

Clippers do not win tonight

Steve Sax said...

And LAFC down 2-0

Steve Sax said...

And the Saturday NYT crossword killed me. I couldn't get the lower right section. I'm done tonight. Off for more G&Ts.

Steve Sax said...

Kershaw going tonight!

karen said...

Happy Kershaw Day!!

karen said...

CT3 hits in JT and Belli. 2-0 in 1st.

karen said...

Arenado brings in Tapia. 2-1 Dodgers.

Steve Sax said...

Dodgers WIN

Pads are 5 games back

Dusty Baker's Toothpick said...

GONZOlin three up, three whiffs!!!

Dusty Baker's Toothpick said...

three more up, three more wiffs!!!