Monday, May 31, 2021

Series Thread (Games 54-56): May 31 - June 2 vs. Cardinals

5.31 Mon 6p: Bauer vs. Flaherty
6.1 Tue 7p: TBD vs. Gant
6.2 Wed 6p: Buehler vs. C Martinez

So the Giants came back into our house and spanked us back into third place. Mookie is almost certainly hurt, not just slumping.. Urias picked an inopportune time to drop the biggest turd of his career, with Roberts leaving him out there to hang for six innings (including trotting Urias out there for an inexplicable and impotent B6 AB, despite relieving him before the top of the seventh).

And the Dodgers are back to an offensive malaise, just scoring enough to make the final margin close(r) but not enough to win the game (see Friday's Austin Barnes B9 tying three-run HR, only to be followed by Kenley Jansen giving three runs right back in the top of the tenth).

St. Louis leads the Central with a record very close to the Dodgers' record (StL 30-23; LAD 31-22). This could easily be another series where the cards aren't in our favor.

74 comments:

QuadSevens said...

Lux and Taylor go back to back in the second for a 2-0 lead!

QuadSevens said...

CT3 with an unreal 14 pitch at bat with the bases loaded hits a base clearing double! 6-3 Dodgers in the 6th!

Steve Sax said...

That could be the turning point of the season. What a great battle.

Steve Sax said...

WIN

karen said...

Great win last night. I actually enjoyed watching the game.

Steve Sax said...

GAME 2

Price looks like he gets the "start"

karen said...

GAME 2

Betts RF
Muncy 2B
Turner 3B
Smith C
Lux SS
Taylor CF
Pujols 1B
Beaty LF
Price P

karen said...

Price wriggles off the hook and allows only the one run in the first. Oh yeah, and it took 29 pitches.

karen said...

John Gant looks like he may have been a neighbor of the Unabomber.

Steve Sax said...

1-0 StL through 1.

Steve Sax said...

One-out walk by Price.

Steve Sax said...

Wow that first inning could have been a lot worse for us. We got lucky.

Steve Sax said...

Well that was a short outing for Price. 1.2IP, and he leaves with first and third and two out.

Steve Sax said...

Suns up on the Lakers 40-26 in the second. Yikes

Steve Sax said...

Kelly gets Goldschmidt for the third out. 2-0 StL through 1.5

karen said...

The Pouter comes in and shuts down the Cards. 2-0 Birds.

karen said...

@Sax...Is A.D. playing??

Steve Sax said...

@karen, i don't think so. So we're boned without Davis

Steve Sax said...

Dodgers waste a chance in the bottom of the second.

Kelly has a 1-2-3 top of the third.

karen said...

BEAUTIFUL PLAY MAX!!!

karen said...

Friars lost, frisco circling the drain in Anaheim. We need a win here.

Steve Sax said...

Leadoff walk to Turner and we can't do ANYTHING with him. Come on.

2-0 Cards through 4

Steve Sax said...

78-45 PHX, 6:47 in the 3rd. Ugh

karen said...

@Sax...OH MY GOD

Steve Sax said...

Okay it's still 2-0 now in the bottom of the sixth, with Mookie leading off and Gant at 80 pitches. Let's go.

Steve Sax said...

Mookie with a leadoff single to center. Good hit as well. Two hits last night, walk and a hit tonight (from Orel on the commentary). Let's hope Mookie is back.

With that hit, I'm going to go pour me some wine.

Steve Sax said...

Suns by 30 with 10:37 left in the 4th.

Steve Sax said...

Wow, Damian Lillard had two clutch threes to send the game into OT and 2OT. But the Blazers fall in 2OT.

Max gets robbed by Edman for out #1.

karen said...

That freaking Edmund kid has got to go.

Steve Sax said...

RIP Mike Marshall, the first reliever to win the Cy Young Award

Steve Sax said...

Turner Ks.

We're gonna strand Mookie again.

Steve Sax said...

This ump is calling a lot of low and wide pitches as strikes. It's frustrating. Roberts is barking from the dugout.

Will Smith ground rule double, which is good, but Mookie won't score now.

Steve Sax said...

94 pitches for Gant.

Steve Sax said...

Here's Lux, with two RISP and two out.

Steve Sax said...

Lux broken bat flare to shallow center, but Dylan Carlson catches it on the slide. Nice play.

Steve Sax said...

2-0 Cards through 6.

karen said...

Sad news about Mike Marshall. RIP Mr. Marshall.

Steve Sax said...

what the hell, Beaty. Drops an easy fly out and then sweeps the ball away so Carpenter can take second with one out. Geez.

karen said...

Redemption time Beaty.

karen said...

REDEEMED!!!!

Steve Sax said...

Holy shit, Beaty redeems his error with a game-tying HR!!!

Steve Sax said...

@karen: beat me to the punch!

Steve Sax said...

What a short compact swing by Beaty. Amazing that he has the strength to go oppo with that one. Amazing.

Go ahead and drop meaningless fly balls in the future, Matt!

Steve Sax said...

Oh it wasn't oppo, my bad. Beaty is a lefty

Steve Sax said...

Cody does not look good up there in the batters box.

karen said...

@Sax...Great minds and all that shit. :)

Steve Sax said...

2-2 through 7.

karen said...

JT shoots down Arenado.

Steve Sax said...

PHX 115, LAL 85 Final. Ouch

Better hope AD is good for Games 6 and 7

Steve Sax said...

Turner overcomes the bad home plat ump with a single to left!

one out

Steve Sax said...

what the hell was that in Turner's mouth there? Looks like a flattened white twinkie?!

Steve Sax said...

Smith Ks feebly

Steve Sax said...

Cards take a 3-2 lead off of Treinen, who hasn't registered an out yet.

Steve Sax said...

Here we go. B9, CT3 starts out against Reyes, the Cardinals' ace closer who is perfect this year.

Steve Sax said...

CT3 whiffs on four pitches.

Steve Sax said...

McKinstry flies out weakly to left. Two out.

Here's Tsutsugo. Yikes.

Steve Sax said...

Tsutsugo works a walk which is about as good as you could hope for.

Here's Bellinger. Two out, B9. Man on first. But the man isn't fast, so he'll have to rope it.

Bellinger batting .133 this year.

Steve Sax said...

1-1 pitch blows right by Belli. 1-2

Steve Sax said...

2-2

Steve Sax said...

Base hit for Bellinger. But now it's up to Mookie.

Steve Sax said...

2-0 count to Mookie. Mound visit.

karen said...

OMG...it hurts so bad!!!

I thought Mookie had it.

Steve Sax said...

Wow. Mookie roped it and almost hit it out but O'Neill grabs it for the final out. Dammit.

karen said...

Night Sax.

Steve Sax said...

Okay, let's win this series tomorrow. Treinen, this one is on you.

Steve Sax said...

GAME 3

Betts RF
Muncy 1B
Turner 3B
Bellinger CF
CT3 2B
Lux SS
McKinstry LF
Barnes C
Buehler P

QuadSevens said...

The Dodgers explode for 11 runs in the first! Bellinger had 6 RBIs in the first including a grand slam!

QuadSevens said...

Buehler with two hits and two RBIs to help is cause. Dodgers up 14-3 in the fifth.

Steve Sax said...

holy shit, 11 runs in the first?! what did I miss?!?!?!

QuadSevens said...

The Cards starter gave up 6 hits and 4 walks while only getting two outs. Reliever came in with the bases loaded and Cody took a 3-0 pitch out for a grand slam!

QuadSevens said...

Will Smith into the game to play third base.

QuadSevens said...

Will gets an error in his first fielding chance. No gold glove.

Steve Sax said...

Oh man, Orel is singing the Gilligan's Island theme.

What is going on here

Steve Sax said...

WIN