Fri 24 4.15p: Urias vs. Anderson Sat 25 4.15p: Heaney vs. Fried Sun 26 4p: Gonsolin vs. Strider
Five home runs on Thursday! 26 total runs in the three-game sweep! Max Muncy with his first three-hit game of the season!
Yes, it's cause for joyous celebration. Except that this was against the Reds, 0-7 against the Dodgers this year and dead last in the entire National League. So the real test of this roadtip comes with these three games in Atlanta, whom we beat twice at home earlier this season (ironically, right after the Cincinnati sweep, making me question the creativity of the MLB scheduling team).
Max Fried on Saturday is no joke: 7-2 with a 2.77 ERA. And the Braves have won 18 of 21 including three of four over the visiting Giants this week, while the Dodgers have been basically playing .500 ball for almost the last month, save this Cincinnati series. On top of all that, the Dodgers' red hot 1B Freddie Freeman has already said his return to Atlanta will be emotional, especially with a ring ceremony on the weekend schedule.
Freddie will be shedding some tears. Hopefully Dodger fans will have some tears of joy this weekend, as well.
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GAME 1
T Turner SS
Freeman 1B
Smith C
Muncy 3B
Taylor LF
J Turner DH
Lux 2B
Bellinger CF
Thompson RF
Urias LHP
Freddie comes absolutely undone at the pregame presser. I know he's a really decent man but dude is a DODGER now. Sac up!
Andrew Heaney back to the IL with shoulder issues. Again.
Dustin May hit 101 in side session today. Dodgers are thinking 5 rehabs and possibly back in July or August. Boy this seems fast.
So Freddie held it together during the standing O the Atlanta fans gave him during his first AB. I'm pretty sure I've never seen an ovation like the one from the Braves fan. Don't get me wrong I HATE the whole Braves Tomahawk Chop shit, but Joe compared Freddie's homecoming to Georgia like it would be for us if Clayton came home with another team. I get that.
What is up with Acuna Jr and his red and yellow uniform. Does dude think he's channeling the Flash?? What an idiot.
Shouldn't the Tomahawk Chop be given the deep dive like the whole Cleveland Indians crap was given???
Don't get me wrong...my paternal grandmother was a Cherokee and while I always respected that I didn't get on the whole bandwagon stuff. The Tomahawk Chop just pisses me off. Annoys the holy shit out of me. Not to mention the fact that I hate the Atlanta fans.
I love it when EK calls the pitch and it's result. It gives me faith that maybe the baseball gods are leaning our way.
Oh shit. Hudson injury sounds bad
The Craig Kimbrel Experience coming in for the bottom of the ninth. BUCKLE UP DODGERS FANS.
C'mon Freddie. Enough with your bromance with the Braves. YOU ARE A DODGER DUDE. Just who is it that is sighing that check of yours with all of those zeros???
WIN!!! Fuck you Bravos.
GAME 2
T Turner SS
Freeman 1B
Smith DH
Taylor LF
J Turner 3B
Thompson RF
Alberto 2B
Bellinger CF
Barnes C
White RHP
I'm not crazy about this lineup.
Doc comes out with a hook. Vesia coming in. Boys losing 2-0 and those freaking GENIUS Braves fans are lighting up their cells.
Idiots.
Braves score and are up 3-0 in B5.
Slappy ties the game up with a solo to lead off the eighth. 3-3.
Bazooka gives up a double to lead off the bottom of the eighth then gives up the homer 5-3 ATL .
KJ coming in for the save.
Oops, it's not for us.
Bad call on Belli to start the ninth.
Bad, bad call.
Yep.....Kenley gets the save.
GAME 3
T Turner SS
Freeman 1B
Smith C
Muncy 3B
J Turner DH
Bellinger CF
Lux 2B
McKinstry RF
Alvarez LF
Gonsolin RHP
Lineup Change
McKinstry out. Alvarez batting eighth and Thompson is hitting ninth and playing RF
The old McKinstry/Thompson switch-a-roo pays off. Thompson makes a great catch in right.
Dodgers tie the game off KJ in the ninth with 2 out. 2-2.
Oh, and Trayce Thompson got the hit to tie it.
Going to the bottom of the ninth tied 2-2. If we get to the tenth, Freddie is up first.
In the tenth, Trea is the ghost runner and the one and only boy of the weekend doubles him in. 3-2 Boys.
Have we won an extra inning game this year? Have we even scored??
Going to bottom of the tenth 3-2 LA.
OMG.....does this mean we're going to get the Craig Kimbrel Experience?? YIKES!
Yep. CKE in to pitch.
Yep. Matt Olson singles in Bravo ghost runner. Tied 3-3.
Wonder what he and Freddie are talking about.
Going to eleven.
CT3 singles in Belli. 4-3 Blue.
Trea singles in CT3. 5-3 LA.
Bazooka comes in and saves it.
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