Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Games 124-126 Thread: August 22-24 @ Guardians

Tue 22 4p: Bobby Miller vs. Noah Syndergaard
Wed 23 4p: Clayton Kershaw vs. Xzavion Curry
Thu 24 10a: TBD vs. Gavin Williams

Hot off two victories in a rain-altered doubleheader, and then followed by a two-day respite while Hurricane Hilary barreled through Southern California, the Dodgers face the Baby Groots in Cleveland. And though this series may not carry the level of drama like a space-age fantasy saga, a return sighting of Dodgers discard Thor Syndergaard, followed by a guy with strange consonant strings like a Superman villain, make this a weird series indeed.

As of Sunday night, the Dodgers had a 11.5-game lead over the second place Giants in the NL West. Cleveland is likely out of the playoffs at this stage (6.0 games behind the Twins in the NL Central, and 10.5 games out of the AL Wild Card). But crazy things happen in these Guardians episodes, so who knows?!

39 comments:

spank said...

good stuff so far from Bobby Miller.

spank said...

Cleveland ties it up in the 7th

3-3

spank said...

shit. 4-3 Cleveland now

spank said...

damn. 3 run homerun by Calhoun

that's a wrap

Steve Sax said...

Welp, Caleb Ferguson sure shit the bed tonight

spank said...

3-1 Dodgers
2nd inning

spank said...

^game 2

spank said...

rain delay

Steve Sax said...

Total delay. Unbelievable to waste Kershaw’s start. Booooo

Steve Sax said...

We're back and playing ball!

Dodgers up 3-1, T3, two outs and Chris Taylor up.

Steve Sax said...

Taylor with a two-out walk. Nice AB, CT3 (and, very generous call)

Steve Sax said...

One pitch, one out. We've got Gonzalez on the mound today. he looks...bigger than I recall.

spank said...

guess its a pitching by committee game. 2nd game is gonna be hell

Steve Sax said...

3-1 through 3 full

Steve Sax said...

Muncy Ks weakly! He's now 0-for-2.

Steve Sax said...

Taylor with a two-out single and Kike with a walk, but then Outman Ks weakly as well.

Outman is so streaky.

Steve Sax said...

Varland on the mound now to start the bottom of the fifth

Steve Sax said...

Straw walks.

Steve Sax said...

Varland yanked.

Steve Sax said...

Now Smith strands two. Still 4-1 LA, mid-6

Steve Sax said...

4-1 LA through six full. Guardians had men at the corners with none out, and then we got two Ks and a fly out.

Steve Sax said...

Tim Herrin, pitching to Max Muncy, to start the seventh.

Steve Sax said...

Frickin' Kike GIDPs to end the seventh.

Steve Sax said...

Vesia with a clean seventh!

Steve Sax said...

Mookie with a double to score two!

6-1 LA, one out, T8.

Steve Sax said...

yet ANOTHER weak ground out to first, for Muncy.

Come on, Max.

spank said...

nice.

spank said...

rain delay again. damn

Steve Sax said...

Unbelievable. And we have another full game to play today--plus we have to Boston for the weekend series.

Just call this first game, already!

Steve Sax said...

And, we're back to playing. Still in Game 1.

spank said...

looks like we won the first game.

Steve Sax said...

WIN

spank said...

cool man. got my pizza,wings,booze and we got game 2. just like I planned.

spank said...

meh

spank said...

2-0 Cleveland

Yarborough giving up some hits

Steve Sax said...

Game 2: Mookie (of course) gets us on the board! 2-1 CLE, T3

spank said...

tied up

2-2

spank said...

I missed Michael Busch hitting a.homerun

7-2 Dodgers

top 6th

spank said...

that's a wrap