Friday, September 30, 2022

Games 157-162 Thread: Sept 30-Oct 5 vs. Rockies

Fri 30 7p: Kershaw vs. Kuhl
Sat 1 6p: Grove vs. Freeland
Sun 2 1p: Anderson vs. Marquez
Mon 3 7p: Gonsolin vs. TBD
Tue 4 7p: Urias vs. TBD
Wed 5 1.20p: Kershaw vs. TBD

Baseball is all about tradition, and now it's time for the traditional end-of-season six-game series. The Dodgers' magic number for home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, including the World Series, is down to 1 (with six games to play), so my guess is that the rotation doesn't exactly play out as planned. I'm looking forward to seeing how Tony Gonsolin does on Monday in his return from the IL.

This series will also be the last audition for Chris Taylor, Trayce Thompson, Cody Bellinger, and Joey Gallo; it's likely that only two of those four will make the postseason roster (only Mookie Betts is a solid outfield lock), with the other two being cut (hopefully not like the movie poster up there). But knowing the Dodgers, there will be more injuries between the end of September to the final postseason game--so we've gotta take a close look at everyone this series. Buckle up, Dodger fans!

24 comments:

spank said...

Mookie RF
Trea SS
Freddie 1B
Slappy C
Muncy 3B
Thompson DH
Lux 2B
CT3 LF
Belli CF

Kershaw P

spank said...

bases juiced. Thompson up

spank said...

Thompson strikes out. end of 1st

spank said...

mookie double drives in CT3

1-0

Steve Sax said...

Sorry, SoSG fans. I was at the game Sat night but the weekend was nuts.

I'm going Tuesday if anyone wants to say hi.

Steve Sax said...

In the middle of Game 4.

Tied at 1.

Would be nice if we could score against the Rockies.

Steve Sax said...

Rox go up 2-1 in the ninth.

Leadoff single from Trea, then Freddie clubs one to right that Steiner calls as a HR. Of course, it’s a fly out.

One out.

Steve Sax said...

Slappy flies out on the second pitch of the AB.

And then Muncy puts up a fight but gets the third out.

We lose.

Our bats are getting cool, against a crappy team, at the wrong time of the season.

Not good.

Steve Sax said...

GAME F I V E

Mookie RF
Trea SS
Freddie 1B
Max 3B
Justin DH
Trayce LF
Gavin 2B
Cody CF
Austin C

Julio P

QuadSevens said...

GAME 6

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

Kershaw P

QuadSevens said...

McNeil of the NYM leads the batting title race and is sitting. Freddie needs to go 4 for 4 to take the lead. He's 2 for 2 with a double and a HR. Let's go!

QuadSevens said...

Kershaw looked pretty good in his final tune up of the regular season.

5IP, 1 H, 1 BB, 1 R, 9K

QuadSevens said...

TREA!!

QuadSevens said...

3 run bomb to give Trea 100 RBIs on the season! 4-1 Dodgers!

QuadSevens said...

Chris Martin with a clean inning. No "Trouble" at all. Bottom of the 7th coming up.

QuadSevens said...

I need to get my Coldplay puns ready for the playoffs. Homework for me for the next few days.

QuadSevens said...

BELLI-BOMB!!

QuadSevens said...

Freeman with his third hit of the day and RBI number 100 for the year!

QuadSevens said...

Kimbrel strikes out the side in the 8th.

QuadSevens said...

Bloop single for Hanser! Love it!

QuadSevens said...

6-1 in the ninth and Ferguson is in the finish it off.

QuadSevens said...

WIN! 111!

QuadSevens said...

Get your lucky shirts and beers ready for Tuesday folks! It's playoffs time!

Steve Sax said...

Hey, we won a game against the Rockies!