Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Games 68-70 Thread: June 11-13 vs. Rangers

Dan Hurley, also not in the running to be new Dodgers manager

Tue 6.11 Paxton vs. TBD Dunning
Wed 6.12 Buehler vs. TBD
Thu 6.13 Yamamoto vs. TBD
All games 7p

Winning two out of three over the YankMes on the road should be cause for celebration, I suppose. But let's remember that we didn't see Juan Soto in their lineup, nor did we see Gerrit Cole in their rotation. So I'm not going to get too excited here.

I might get excited if we can dispatch the defending World Champion Rangers, even if they're 5.5 games behind the AL West-leading Mariners (Dodgers still have a 7.5-game lead over the .500 Padres), and they're a sub-.500 team this year.

I'm going to the game Wednesday night, probably to see another shaky start from Walker Buehler, who is clearly still finding his form. Hey, at least we've named our three pitchers for this series by now.

UPDATE 6/12 11p: Yamamoto's start pushed back a couple of days.

photo: Christian Petersen / Getty Images

65 comments:

Steve Sax said...

GAME 1

Betts SS
Ohtani DH
Freeman 1B
Smith C
T Hernandez LF
Lux 2B
Pages CF
Heyward RF
Rojas 3B

Paxton LHP

spank said...

as a Lakers fan i feel attacked by the game thread pic and text

karen said...

Great play by MiggyRo

karen said...

Slappy!!! 3-0 Boys

spank said...

slappy!!

spank said...

woo hoo!! mookie clears the bases

Steve Sax said...

hey guys!

Steve Sax said...

Sorry I'm late.

@spank 6:37p: yeah, what a disaster of a coaching search. what a mess.

Steve Sax said...

Lux with another great AB there. He's five for his last six. He stroked that one even with two strikes. Nice RBI Gavin: it's 7-1 LA, B5

Steve Sax said...

Good sixth inning there for Paxson.

7-1 LA, mid-6

karen said...

Shohei goes big!! 9-1 LA

Steve Sax said...

Awesome AB for Shohei there, he was just hunting the fastball and nailed it.

9-1 LA, Ohtani scores Betts as well.

karen said...

Freddie goes back to back with Shohei. 10-1

Steve Sax said...

Freddie goes yard as well.

It's 10-1 LA!

Steve Sax said...

spank's feed is faster than mine!

this turkish prison feed sucks

Steve Sax said...

Slappy with a base hit up the middle.

There's still only one out in the bottom of the sixth, I think it was Rojas?

Betts BB
Ohtani two-run HR
Freeman HR
Smith base hit

Wow.

karen said...

Now Teo goes yard! 12-1 Dodgers

Steve Sax said...

Teoscar goes yard.

It's 12-1

Steve Sax said...

This is a drubbing!

spank said...

dayum

karen said...

J Hey hits one to Palmdale!! 14-1

Steve Sax said...

Heyward took that one OUT

spank said...

crazy

spank said...

Vargas reaction cracking me up

Steve Sax said...

"This made Vargas Weekend at Bernie's"--Joe Davis, explaining Miguel Vargas' catatonic face as he watched Heyward go yard there. They said 415 feet but I think they missed a 0 at the end of that one

Steve Sax said...

@karen! hi there

Steve Sax said...

First four-HR inning in four years for the Dodgers

Steve Sax said...

Kike at first, Taylor at third, Vargas in left.

Steve Sax said...

CT3 at the plate to lead off the seventh, he fouls out to first (shallow right).

spank said...

this one's in the refrigerator. im going to bed. see y'all tomorrow

karen said...

Win! 5-2.

What a fun game!

Steve Sax said...

I’m at the Stadium tomorrow!

karen said...

GAME 2

Betts SS
Ohtani DH
Freeman 1B
Smith C
T Hernandez LF
Lux 2B
Pages CF
Heyward RF
Biggio 3B

Bueler RHP

karen said...

Who is Biggio at 3B?? Got to be related to Craig, right?

**Buehler...sorry Walker

karen said...

RIP Mr. Clutch

karen said...

Cavan Biggio is Craig's kid. Dodgers optioned Miggy Vargas.

spank said...

RIP Zeke from Cabin Creek 😔

spank said...

Biggio's been awful. i watched a few Toronto games and he did nothing. batted 9th for the Blue Jays and the team sucks. Freidman sees something in him

Steve Sax said...

Thanks for the lineup karen! I’m at the Stadium now 👍

🐄🔑🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇🦇

Steve Sax said...

The octopus balls: not good.

karen said...

Saxy at the Ravine tonight so all of that good SoSG juju will help Walker be Walker.

karen said...

YAY!!! Shohei hits his 17th homerun. 1-0 LA

Steve Sax said...

Nice job by Buehler there. First two Ks of the game came at the right time!

karen said...

Damn. I really dislike Seager

Steve Sax said...

Of course it’s Seager.

3-1 TEX

spank said...

seager hits 3 run blast

Steve Sax said...

Dammit, I’m wearing an alternate hat and everything.

Steve Sax said...

Bleak

Steve Sax said...

Treinen sits down Seager in the seventh.

karen said...

The new kid is wearing Pop's number 6.

karen said...

Pages thrown out trying to score tying run in bottom of ninth. Final Score 3-2 bad guys

Steve Sax said...

Pages blows through the stop sign and losss the game for us.

Swap his ass out for Outman.

spank said...

good hustle by Pages despite being out. i like that aggressiveness on the base paths

Steve Sax said...

@spank: I'm anti-Pages on this one, but I get it. It's his second baserunning blunder in a week, though.

karen said...

I have to go with Sax on this one. Last week in extra innings Pages ran to third with the ball hit in front of him. Then last night blowing through Dino's stop sign only to be thrown out and end the game.

Steve Sax said...

I’m out of pocket tonight, team!

karen said...

GAME 3

Mookie SS
Shohei DH
Freddie 1B
Teoscar LF
Andy CF
Jason RF
Gavin 2B
Cavan 3B
Austin C

Michael RHP

karen said...

A new look for the lineup to kick off a new winning streak.

karen said...

Sunday, June 23 is an off day. Probably because of this screwy schedule being forced upon us. Still, there is something unamerican about a Sunday off day.

karen said...

Boys start the game down by 2 runs.

Steve Sax said...

I’m here late. And Austin Barnes still sucks

karen said...

So happy you're here. I was getting lonely

karen said...

Pages hits a solo. 3-1 morons

karen said...

Boys cornered with no outs. Top of the lineup coming up. Down by 2.

karen said...

BOOOOO!