Monday, September 05, 2022

Games 134-136 Thread: Sep 5 - 7 vs. Giants

Mon Sep 5 7p: Heaney vs. Webb
Tue Sep 6 7p: Anderson vs. TBD
Wed Sep 7 1p: Kershaw vs. Cobb

This Game Thread is late.

But the Giants are still lame.

photo from San Jose Mercury News; Jane Tyska/Bay Area News Group, May 23, 2022

75 comments:

Steve Sax said...

GAME 1

Betts 2B
T Turner SS
Freeman 1B
Muncy 3B
Thompson RF
Gallo LF
Vargas DH
Bellinger CF
Barnes C

Heaney P

spank said...

Fuck The Gnats!!

Steve Sax said...

SD lost 5-0 to the D'backs, so the magic number is 8.

Steve Sax said...

@spank: Hey, man! Sorry the thread was late. Just got back from a roadtrip, traffic was not the best

Steve Sax said...

Freeman with a two-run HR!

2-0 LA, B1

spank said...

Freddie with a 2 run bomb

spank said...

@ saxy - its cool. you're the man.I'm glad you're keeping this place alive.

Steve Sax said...

The other Sons help with twitter. I'm just the old guard staffing the lone blog outpost!

thanks for coming by our virtual neighborhood bar. It may not be as popular with the kids these days, but at least everybody knows your name here.

Steve Sax said...

Shit. Heaney gives up two bombs and it’s 3-2 SF.

Steve Sax said...

Trea with a two-out single in the third.

Steve Sax said...

Turner caught stealing. Not good.

spank said...

Trea getting tagged out doing a riverdance after sliding into second base

spank said...

shit

spank said...

Heaney serving up some bombs. damn.

Steve Sax said...

Jeez. Now down 6-3

Steve Sax said...

Cody, you hit a three-run HR here, or you’re out of the starting lineup this series

Steve Sax said...

And, Bellinger Ks. What a surprise.

Steve Sax said...

Still down 6-3

spank said...

6-4 now

spank said...

Booooo

Steve Sax said...

Well, that wasn't good.

Steve Sax said...

New day. Let's go

Steve Sax said...

GAME TWO

Betts RF
T Turner SS
Freeman 1B
Smith C
Muncy 3B
J Turner DH
Gallo LF
Taylor 2B
Bellinger CF

Anderson P

Steve Sax said...

Not-so-fun fact!

Cody Bellinger has played in six games since his last hit, on August 29! He's gone 0-for-19 since then!

Steve Sax said...

Not-so-fun fact!

Joey Gallo has improved on his .159 average and 77 OPS+ that he had with the YankMes!

Now he's batting .197 with the Dodgers...which gives him a positively mediocre OPS+ of 101!

Steve Sax said...

Dammit, we are already down 1-0 through 1.

Steve Sax said...

Muncy leadoff double in the bottom of the second, and then a four-pitch walk to Justin Turner. No out.

Steve Sax said...

Joey Gallo with a three-run HR!

Steve Sax said...

Taylor Ks.

Bellinger Ks.

Come on, guys.

Steve Sax said...

Mid-3, 3-1 LA

Steve Sax said...

Max Muncy is single-handedly winning this game for the Dodgers.

3-for-3 with 2 HR and three RBI

Steve Sax said...

Taylor and Cody again can’t do anything except make outs.

Steve Sax said...

6-3 LA @ the stretch

Steve Sax said...

6-3 LA, Final.

WIN

Steve Sax said...

GAME THREE

Betts RF
T Turner SS
Freeman 1B
Muncy DH
J Turner 3B
Thompson CF
Gallo LF
Taylor 2B
Barnes C

Kershaw P

Steve Sax said...

Bellinger, now riding a 0-for-21 streak, sits. Finally.

Steve Sax said...

Chris Taylor is 1-for-10 in his last three games, including 5 Ks.

He'd better start making contact.

Steve Sax said...

Dodger Insider: Since Craig Kimbrel first used "Let It Go" as his walk-in music on August 21, he hasn't allowed a hit in six appearances, and he has a 0.00 ERA.

Steve Sax said...

0-0 through 1. JT had an error but no damage done.

spank said...

classic Dodgers. bases loaded with no outs and score no runs. they deserve to lose. hate that shit.

Steve Sax said...

Bases loaded in the second, none out, and we can't score a damn run!

Steve Sax said...

Oh man. I come back to my desk and we're losing, on a two-run David Villar HR.

Come on, people!

Steve Sax said...

Dodgers through four frames: 0-for-6 with RISP

Steve Sax said...

First and second, none out, B5.

Justin Turner up.

Steve Sax said...

JT HOME RUN!!!

3-2 LA

QuadSevens said...

SNLA showed a great stat. 21 out of 22 runs this series have been scored via the HR. That was before JT's 3 run bomb.

QuadSevens said...

Kersh is through 6. Dodgers still lead 3-2. Bottom half of the inning coming up.

QuadSevens said...

Looks like Kershaw is done for the day. 6IP 2R 5H 8K on 86 pitches.

QuadSevens said...

Muncy had a sweet bunt base hit before JT's bomb. Took advantage of the wide open left side.

Steve Sax said...

David Villar with a second HR. Tie game.

Steve Sax said...

Thanks a lot, Bruihl

QuadSevens said...

Bruihl in to pitch the 7th. Villar with his second dinger of the day ties it up.

QuadSevens said...

Damn! I had to look up how to spell "Bruihl". LOL.

QuadSevens said...

Evan Phillips in and Joc up for the Gnats.

Steve Sax said...

3-3 at the stretch

Steve Sax said...

JT works a walk

Steve Sax said...

Wade with a leadoff walk in the top of the 8th, but Evan Longoria GIDPs for the first two outs. Then Estrada gets an infield single.

Steve Sax said...

B8, tied at 3.

Barnes with a leadoff single to Joc in right

Steve Sax said...

Charley says that Longoria should have had that one, but it snuck through for a base hit.

Steve Sax said...

Betts grounds to Zack Littell (P) for the first out. Barnes to second.

Steve Sax said...

Here's Trea, 0-for-4 so far this game.

Steve Sax said...

Trea with a double to left! (Sorry, that's where Joc is playing)

Steve Sax said...

Barnes scores! Turner on second, Dodgers up 4-3

QuadSevens said...

MUNCY!

Steve Sax said...

MUNCY WITH A THREE-RUN HOMER!

7-3 LA

Steve Sax said...

Muncy today: 3-for-5, 3 RBI

He's now at .197 for the season...

Steve Sax said...

Bellinger is at .199...

Steve Sax said...

Quick outs for JT and Thompson.

7-4, heading to ninth.

QuadSevens said...

Muncy with the very unusual bunt and a bomb game! I love it!

Steve Sax said...

WIN

Steve Sax said...

Magic number at 6

Steve Sax said...

@Quad 4.10p: I gotta watch that bunt video! Sounds classic

spank said...

that's a wrap

QuadSevens said...

@Sax In his post game interview Muncy said he was just trying to get Freddy over and let the guys behind him do their job. Ended up working out nicely since JT hit the 3 run bomb right after.

QuadSevens said...

BTW...3 HRs in 24 hours for Muncy is pretty damn good!