Tues 9.3: Buehler vs. Detmers Wed 9.4: Miller vs. Canning Both games 6.38p first pitch
On August 1, the Dodgers were still playing lackadaisically and had a 4.5-game lead on the Padres and 5.0-game lead on the Diamondbacks--and it was well established that our opponents in the NL West were carrying all the momentum (the Dodgers had a 9.0-game lead on June 20, so it made sense).
But after taking three of four against the Diamondbacks this Labor Day Weekend, the Dodgers are now 5.0 games up on the Padres and 6.0 games up on the Diamondbacks. And our rotation may still be swiss cheese, but at least a healthy offensive lineup is showing more signs of life.
And we have a little respite here against the last-place Angels (who are amazingly 2.5 games behind fourth-place Oakland), before hosting the Guardians and Cubs in a six-game homestand. Let's see if Walker Buehler and Bobby Miller can improve their bids for a postseason roster slot.
UPDATE 9.3 2p: I just heard on the Roggin and Rodney show that the Angels are not planning to do anything for Shohei Ohtani's return to Angel Stadium, for the first time since he left the team after last season. If that's true, that would be incredibly spiteful of Arte Moreno and the organization.
UPDATE 9.4 3p: Apparently, there was a 42-second tribute on the video screen (which seems really paltry, but whatever, Anaheim). And then they did this:
That about sums it up
— Jomboy Media (@JomboyMedia) September 4, 2024
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53 comments:
@Saxy....I heard the same thing earlier today. No class.
Kirsten reporting that there will be a video montage at first AB and John Hartung said it was a late decision and that they hadn't planned anything.
GAME 1
Ohtani DH
Betts RF
Freeman 1B
T Hernandez LF
Smith C
Edman CF
Muncy 3B
Rojas SS
Taylor 2B
Buehler RHP
@Saxy...I thought you might be busy at work or something and was just going
to post the lineup for you. Glad I refreshed! :)
Ohtani grounds out for the first out in the top of the first.
I didn't see a montage and I'm not impressed with the applause. The people I saw standing had Dodger jerseys on.
EK just said the response wasn't overwhelming.
Freddie with a two-out walk!
Teoscar Ks for the third out.
2-1 Dodgers mook singles in shohei
Ohtani triples in a run, and Mookie singles in Shohei!
Teo K, so it’s up to Slappy, with Dodgers at the corners and two out.
Slappy Ks. Jeez, Smith, get your swing back! Running out of time.
2-1 LA
BOOOOOOO
weak sauce
2-2 going to bottom of 9th
We have three hits in this game, none from the 4-through-9 hitters.
Will Smith and Tommy Edman are both 0-for-4 with 3 Ks.
Get your shit together, guys!
thank you MiggyRo
Muncy advances the ghostrunner, and Rojas singles him in!
3-2 LA, T10, one out.
Here's Lux as a PH...he grounds to first, advancing PR Kiermaier to second with two out.
IBB Ohtani to get to Betts.
MOOKIE!
MOOKIE HR ON THE FIRST PITCH!!! 6-2 LA
Mookie makes 'em pay!!!
Mookie!!
That was fun to watch.
Angels announcers said nothing during mookies homerun. they just let the crowd roar. fucking beautiful. wish joe davis would do that but he can't shut the fuck up.
Brasier in for the tenth, with a four-run lead. And he WPs before he can get the first out.
Brandon Drury flies to right for the first out, runner holds at third. One out, B10
Mookie Betts held Drury on third even with a deep fly ball to right. Wow
Stephen and EK: that was only the third time that the player in front of Mookie Betts was IBBd, and the last since 2016. Hilarious.
Adell pops to first. Two out.
Kavadas flies to left. BALLGAME!
WIN
Dodger Win!!!
thats a wrap
6-2 LA, final
Snakes up 8-6 on the Giants, going to the bottom of the ninth in SF
Yastrzemski with a leadoff single for the Giants.
Interesting: Heliot Ramos with a one-out double, to shave the lead to 8-7 AZ. Here's Matt Chapman.
Chapman out on a comebacker, so it's up to Lamont Wade Jr with two out in the bottom of the ninth. Wade is 0-for-2 tonight.
IBB Wade, so here's Encarnacion with two out and two on. Encarnacion is 1-for-4 with 3Ks tonight.
Encarnacion Ks. AZ wins, so I think the Snakes are now 6.5 games back (and the Dodgers are 5.5 games ahead of the Padres).
Sorry, the standings were still in flux when I wrote that last comment.
The Dodgers are 5.5 games ahead of the Padres, and 6.0 games ahead of the Diamondbacks.
Just updated the post to include commentary about the Ohtani "tributes" on the video screen last night.
@Saxy...What did all that mean??? Shohei's 'tribute'? 'Used to work here ' with the Dodger logo as the background?? Like I said last night...No Class.
GAME 2
Shohei Ohtani DH
Mookie Betts RF
Freddie Freeman 1B
T Hernandez LF
Gavin Lux 2B
Tommy Edman CF
Max Muncy 3B
Miguel Rojas SS
Austin Barnes C
Bobby Miller RHP
oh shit. than tribute was real? i thought it was AI when.i saw it earlier. no bueno
Not 100% sure the Jomboy tweet is real! But funny
The Anaheim scoreboard operator is funny though. Earlier this year, he trolled Jonah Heim telling him he needs to have a daughter named Ana
Why is Austin Barnes in the lineup
Miller.ready to give up the game
yeah I'm not confident in any of the Dodgers pitchers.
I'll say one thing about Miller...he's got a lot of guts.
That…was not good.
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