Fri Sep 3 6.45p: Price vs. TBD Sat Sep 4 6p: Urias vs. TBD Sun Sep 5 4p: Buehler vs. TBD
After 126 days, we've finally made this a race again. We hadn't tasted first place since April 28. And we were stalled at five games back on August 12. But here we are, back in first place in the NL West following a sweep of the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves, having ascended back to the top thanks to a 16-3 record over the last 19 games taking us back to that August 12 nadir.
And the Giants aren't going away; they took the fourth game of the series to avert the sweep to the Brewers, and make it all tied up at the top, going into this head-to-head series, where we won't have Mad Max Scherzer. Will Mookie Betts, fresh off a four-K night on Wednesday, rise to the occasion yet again?
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GAME 1
Trea Turner 2B
Max Muncy 1B
Mookie Betts RF
Justin Turner 3B
Corey Seager SS
Will Smith C
Chris Taylor LF
Cody Bellinger CF
Corey Knebel RHP
Hoo boy. No Price for the first
David Price battling a sore elbow. Corey Knebel to be tonight's opener followed by a bullpen game.
Sax...Hope you don't mind that I posted the lineup. I figured you were at work and couldn't get to it. Sorry :(
With just 28 games left Nomar predicts the Dodgers will win the division by 3 games. Ned is saying they'll win by 7 games. Either way it's all good.
This would be a great time for Cody to break out of his slump.
Two little stray kittens somehow ended up in my backyard Wednesday night, so of course being the big suckers my daughter and I are for the critters in need, we have been feeding them and giving them fresh, cool water twice a day. We have a really nice (and cute) kid next door. I think he's maybe 21 or 22 now. Anyway Jennifer was just talking to him and he's putting water out for them as well. Good to know Jenn and I aren't the only suckers in the neighborhood.
Trea Turner opens up the game with a single. Max Muncy up.
No score at the end of one.
Cody Ks in his first AB. Sigh.
Hey karen! Thank you so much for posting the lineup
Posey flies to Bellinger to start the second.
0-0 through 2. McKinstry Ks to lead off the third.
@karen, that’s kind of you and your family about the kittens…. Yikes I couldn’t deal
Excellent one-out AB from Trea Turner here.
Trea works a walk. One out.
Muncy sacrifices Trea to second. WP allows him to take third. Betts flies to center for the third out. Darn it.
Bickford comes in and walks the pitcher, then Ruf. Two on, none out, B3.
Not good, Phil
CRAP!! One of Bickford's walks comes in to score. 1-0 Evil.
Giants take the lead on a PH Slater bases-loaded RBI single to left.
1-0, one out in the bottom of the third. Vesia inherits Bickford’s mess, but he needs to get out of it.
Bellinger chases down a fly ball for the third out! 1-0 SF through 3.
That could have been a lot worse. Let’s go, Blue!!!
Even though Belli isn't hitting, thankfully his defense is still awesome.
Bazooka in hopefully to restore some order.
Bazooka gives up a leadoff double to Estrada. Doesn't look like order being restored to me.
Okay it’s 1-0 through six frames.
Seager, first pitch swinging, sort of nubs one up the third base line and reaches first safely. No out.
Can we finally break through now that DeSclafani has been chased?
Smith with a 3-1 count
Bellinger Ks.
Honestly I don’t know why he is playing right now. He is awful.
Mid-7, we don’t score.
Going to the eighth still 1-0 Bad Guys.
Mid 8 Dodgers have one more chance to score and those horrific people waving their orange towels can smell first place.
Mookie, JT and MVP coming up in the ninth.
TIED BABY!!!!
Holy cow. CT3 singles as we are down to our last out. Tied at 1.
Pujols, PH for Bellinger, watches strike 1.
KJ walks Evil batter on 4 pitches to start B9
Kenley has thrown six straight balls
Orel references the Three Stooges watching Ruf bellyflop and barely make it back to first.
Only one out though.
Kenley walks another one. He can’t find the strike zone with a map right now
Kenley walks another one, winning run in scoring position with 1 out. KJ is scaring me really, really bad.
I can barely watch this
Jansen is overthrowing
I give a lot of credit to the bullpen for this game, but this is going to be a brutal way to end it.
KJ manages to get the second out
I will say: Giants fans aren’t even standing up for this.
Wow. Can’t believe Kenley escaped.
1-1 through 9.
KJ gets Pubes to send this mama into extra innings
Oh great, Pujols is our man on second.
We will have to hit a HR.
Pujols BARELY makes it to third on a deep sac fly. Ouch my bones are aching, watching that.
Roberta has seen enough, Walker Buehler PRs for Pujols.
Good job by Pujols to take third there, let’s cash in the chips
Come on, Trea!
Butane into score...2-1 Dodger Blue
Trea with a sac fly to score Buehler! Two out. Barnes PH
Sax...it looked like Tio was running in slow motion. You're right, it was painful to watch.
Looks like we are warming up Vazquez, who hasn’t pitched in two years.
😬
@karen: I’m pro-Pujols. Love that guy. So glad he is on our team. But man he is creaky
Barnes singles. Here’s 🐄🔑, who hasn’t gotten a hit in September.
Betts flails for strike 1. 1-1 count
Come on, 🐄🔑!!!
🐄🔑 works a walk!
Barnes had advanced to second on a WP during 🐄🔑’s AB.
First and second, two out, JT up.
Sax...I remember the day after we got him Jenn and I went to our favorite Mexican restaurant and ran into a guy wearing an Angels cap and I told him how happy we were to have him and the Angels fan was saying he couldn't believe that he had been cut.
Going to B10 with the Boys of Summer up by one...
Dodgers only get one. JT grounds to third.
2-1 going to B10. With this crazy guy-starts-on-second thing, I’m not hopeful.
@karen 10:28p: yeah it was a brutal cut by the Angels.
But they are paying most of his salary this year! Thank you Artie!
Sorry for the misspelling: it’s Vasquez. Only one Z.
My god Vasquez does not look sharp
The Fresh Prince playing 1B for the first time as a pro. Vasquez into relieve and making his Dodger debut.
He’s only throwing curves
Tied again with winning run on second and no outs.
Well, that was quick. Giants tie it. Crawford takes second and still no out.
Vasquez only throwing curves!
What is up with Vasquez throwing only curves?????
Also: there’s a lot of empty seats in this park.
Three straight curves Ks Yastrzemski. Two out. Crawford on third.
New pitcher for the Dodgers.
2 outs, winning run on third and Phillips coming in to try and send this to the eleventh.
Evan Phillips in to pitch. He’s the last pitcher available for us.
😬
Vasquez and Phillips send it to the eleventh.
Sooooooo many empty Giants seats
Dodgers on the corners with nobody out.
Seager is heating up at the right time of the season. Fourth hit gets JT to third with none out.
Corey had a green light with a 3-0 count
Sax...Joe and Orel were talking earlier about how Giants were having a tough time selling seats at BirdShit Park this year even though the Giants are having a good season.
Not exactly sure why JT came home there—to avoid the DP?—but smith really needed to get that one out of the infield.
@karen: look birdshit park is a beautiful stadium. They have a first-place team. If they can’t sell seats, they are idiots.
Great. CT3 Ks, so now Evan Phillips is up. Dammit.
OMG Phillips coming in to hit because we are out of pitchers.
Phillips K's, no real surprise there.
Maybe Dave should have double-switched there, though I don’t know what other position players are left.
Meanwhile, we have their top of the order. If somehow we survive the 11th (not likely), it goes back to our top of the order. So let’s see.
Not expecting much but at least we made this a game and had them burn some more arms.
Dear Evan Phillips
Well it's over. Back to second place for us.
Hey we held tough. We shouldn’t lose on a walkoff error but it happens.
That was the bullpen game. Let’s get two now.
Kersh making a rehab start Tuesday in OKC. Max Sherzer's tight hammy is going in the right direction. His next scheduled start is Monday and Doc says he won't miss that start.
Evil Doers have scheduled bullpen games for the next two days. Dodgers have Urias tonight and Butane tomorrow.
GAME 2
Trea Turner 2B
Max Muncy 1B
Mookie Betts RF
Justin Turner 3B
Corey Seager SS
AJ Pollock LF
Chris Taylor CF
Will Smith C
Julio Urias LHP
Pentone 294 in BirdShit Park tonight and as usual, there are a whole lotta them!
STEVE SAX! Are you hanging with me in The Assassins Bar tonight??
Belli not in the lineup tonight but Doc says he's working tirelessly. John Hartung, Ned and Nomar say the best 8 hitters the Dodgers have are in the lineup.
The Bad Guys have spent almost 100 days in first then the Dodgers. Vegas odds are in favor of Our Boys winning the National League West.
T-minus 8 minutes and counting until the LA Dodgers open up a can of whoop ass on the team that currently calls BirdShit Park home.
Trea Turner opens the game with a homerun. 1-0 LA.
Mookie walks and then steals second.
Jay Jackson walks JT. Good Guys have 2 on and 1 out. Gabe Kapler pulls Jackson after he gets just one out.
Mookie and JT make a double steal. Boys on second and third with 1 up and 1 out.
Mookie scores on a sac fly by MVP. 2-0 LA
Turner scores on AJ's double. 3-0 Dodgers.
AJ thrown out trying to steal third. Mid One Good Guys 3 - Evil Doers coming up.
AJ out of the game after a bad slide in T1. Belli in to CF and CT3 moves to LF.
Single for Longoria. Evil on corners with 2 out.
Oyster Pubes hits in an Evil Teammate. 3-1 Dodger Blue.
Dammit, come ON julio!!!
I’m in the Bay Area. This is intolerable
Julio K's the last Evil Doer, sorry, I don't know who he was. After one Dodgers 3-Evil 1.
@SAX...Are you at BirdShit Park?
@karen: no, just at family. 😬
Oh no, is AJ badly hurt? I didn’t see it
@karen: to be clear: it’s married family. The in-laws.
I talk slowly and with mono-syllabic words to some of them (those that are giants fans cavemen), as to not scare them.
@Sax......they had to help him off the field
@karen: I hd the opportunity to go to birdshit park this weekend, but chose not to because of Delta (and the fact no one is masked there). Just too much bad shit there, frankly. (And a lot of empty seats.)
@Sax...Enjoy ypur family time (even if the neandersols are supporters of the Hated Ones.
@karen thanks. Need some wins here.
Btw weather in the South Bay is really nice today. So there’s that.
AQI in SF is worse than LA, due to the fires ☹️
Huge out there for Urias. 3-1 through 4 full.
We are gonna need more, Blue.
Mookie Betts-wearing fan catches that Will Smith foul ball.
Smith is gonna K here though. 3-2 count.
Smith fouls a couple of 3-2 pitches off
Giants broadcasters said this game is sold out. There are TONS of empty seats.
Smith walks. Good job Will!
Urias with a clean sac bunt. Well done Julio
Max. That was a bad K.
3-1 LA. Mid 5
Cody Ks to end the top of the sixth. He looks lost.
Can we please reboot Cody and put him in a batting cage. I believe in that kid but he is a mess right now. He’s on one knee striking out. That’s not MVP material.
Urias gets a huge K for the first out, after a lead off single by Posey to start the sixth.
Posey is 3-for-3 this game. He advances to second on what is effectively a sac hit (mis-hit).
Urias exits. He’s given up 8 hits
Giants have eight hits and one run.
Dodgers have five hits and four runs.
We are lucky to be ahead 4-1.
Bickford hits the first batter of the seventh. Not good.
Seager!!! HR makes it 5-1
Huge 6-1 win tonight. Let’s go!
GAME 3
Trea Turner 2B
Max Muncy 1B
Mookie Betts RF
Justin Turner 3B
Corey Seager SS
Will Smith C
Chris Taylor LF
Cody Bellinger CF
Walker Buhler RHP
The Fresh Prince ties it up 1-1.
Pitching change.
Walker runs into some trouble. The Hated Ones take the lead 3-1.
Now 4-1.
What the heck is happening here
End of three 6-1 Evil.
I am NOT having fun.
Brandon Crawford thrown out trying to steal second. 6-2 end of fifth.
AJ Pollock out for 2-3 weeks with pulled hammy.
This is not a good time to be in the Bay Area. ☹️
Last chance for Boys of Summer....
2 run pinch hit homerun by Tio. 6-4.
DAMN. Back to second place for us.
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