Friday, August 08, 2025

Game 116 Thread: Aug 8 vs. Blue Jays, 7p

Avert your eyes, or you'll be banished to L.A. Law!

Clayton Kershaw (217 wins, lifetime) vs. Max Scherzer (218 wins, lifetime).

It's a clash of MLB win titans today, with Clayton Kershaw and former Dodger Max Scherzer dueling it out on the mound. On the all-time leaderboard, Scherzer has the edge on IP (2919 to 2808) and strikeouts (3,451 / 11th place to 3,010 / 20th place), but Scherzer is also three years older than Kershaw.

The bigger issue here, though, is that the AL East-leading Blue Jays (68-48) are hot, while the NL West-leading Dodgers (66-49) are most decidedly not. As we dropped two of three to the mediocre Cardinals earlier this week, the Blue Jays were scoring 45 runs in their series against Colorado. I'm not hopeful.

32 comments:

karen said...

FYI Spanky my man...I am not being political here.... but here we go..... my good ma and pa brought this here girl up right. My first Dodger game was in the nose bleed seats when mama was pregnant with me. My beautiful baby girl was born during the 1981 WS. So here is this American girl's question......HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE WITH A FUCKING CANADIAN TEAM??????? I am a South Park girl but WTF???????

Steve Sax said...

Ohtani strokes a leadoff single in the first

Steve Sax said...

@karen: I’m cool with a Toronto team. And I liked the old Expos logo. 🤷‍♂️

spank said...

i have no problems with Canada

spank said...

Montreal needs the Expos back

spank said...

its all up to teo to get something

Steve Sax said...

Jeez, Teo. That was an ugly AB and that swinging strike 3 was nowhere near the zone.

Fuck.

0-0 through 1

spank said...

got nothing with the bases loaded. fucking wasted opportunity

karen said...

Good job Mook!!!

Steve Sax said...

Where the hell was that damn hit in the first inning, Teo?!

spank said...

conforto is horrible

karen said...

Dammit Andy!

karen said...

MOOKIE BABY!!!!

spank said...

MOOKIE!!!!!!!!!

Steve Sax said...

Pages with a leadoff single, but he runs himself into a double play like a TOOTBLAN.

but MOOKIE with a two-run HR!!!

2-1 LA

spank said...

good lord it's Copernicus

spank said...

Outman 2.0 walks. shohei singles as i write this. 2 on

spank said...

Outman 2.0 scores on a fielders choice

Steve Sax said...

Ballsy move by Freeland there. Heck of a throw by Bichette but Freeland scores!

3-1 LA, Mookie with all three RBI

spank said...

bases juiced for slaps

Steve Sax said...

four-pitch walk to freeman!

karen said...

3-1 KIDDOS!!!! Let's Gooooo!!!!!!

Steve Sax said...

Slappy with a RBI walk. Framing tried to make it a strike, but it was a ball.

Steve Sax said...

4-1 LA, bases loaded, none out, Muncy up

Steve Sax said...

Muncy Ks. One out

Steve Sax said...

Sac fly from Teo to score Mookie, it's 5-1 LA

Steve Sax said...

And of course, Conforto ends the inning.

Steve Sax said...

Casparius with a nasty pitch for that first-out K

Steve Sax said...

Joe Davis just relayed that it's Boston 8, San Diego 0

karen said...

WIN BABY!!!!!

Steve Sax said...

WIN

spank said...

that's a wrap