Despite all the celebrations at Dodger Stadium for Jackie Robinson Day, the Dodgers' Tyler Glasnow laid his first egg of the season in a 6-4 loss to the visiting Washington Nationals.
This was the Dodgers' first loss on Jackie Robinson Day during the Dave Roberts managerial era (the Dodgers are now 7-1 on April 15, under Roberts' tenure), and have a 11-4 record (including five walk-off victories!) on April 15, since everyone in the major leagues started wearing #42 on this day, in 2009.
SoSG Orel and I were there (note: SoSG Dusty was there too, but we didn't find out until later! Missed beer opportunity...), and when the Dodgers went down 6-2 in the fifth on Luis Garcia Jr's three-run HR, you knew it was going to be over. We scratched back a couple of runs on a Will Smith RBI groundout in the sixth, and a Max Muncy RBI single in the eighth, but the Dodgers went a woeful 1-for-6 with runners in scoring position, leading to the 6-4 loss.
That said, we stayed until the end. Here are some of the photos from that night. First, the field-level concession stands have totally changed. I think my favorite spot, the fried chicken sandwiches somewhere between first base and home plate, has disappeared. And there are a couple of new Asian cuisine spots on the third base side:
I got a shot of the Jackie Robinson Day logo on Diamondvision:
Here's the Dodgers players in #42:
I also got a couple of videos. Here's Mookie Betts, coming to the plate in the bottom of the first inning:
And here's Shohei Ohtani, with a single in the first inning (he later scored, to tie the score at 1):
And here's the scoreboard later in the game, before the bottom dropped out:
Always a great time at the Stadium, thuough it would have been a lot better if we had won. At least we each got a free cap, I guess.
1 comments:
those were good seats. good stuff saxy.
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