Yoshinobu Yamamoto (11-8, 2.66) vs. Logan Webb (14-10, 3.34).
Blake Snell figured out how to optimize the Dodgers bullpen in yesterday's 5-0 victory: He wouldn't let any relievers into the game, at least not in a critical seventh inning with two on and two out, nursing a three-run lead. With the tying run, Otto Kemp, at the plate, Snell rejected Dave Roberts' attempt to bring in a reliever--Alex Vesia had actually left the bullpen, only to turn tack and leave the field of play--and stuck in the game to get Kemp to strike out and maintain the shutout through seven full frames.
In the eighth inning, Shohei Ohtani added a solo home run (his 51st this season), and Tommy Edman added a sacrifice fly, to expand the margin to 5-0. And Vesia did pitch a scoreless eighth inning, and even Tanner Scott had a scoreless inning in the ninth.
So we finally beat the Phillies (though we lost the series), and now we have four games against the Giants in our last homestand of the year. We're 5.5 games out of the #2 playoff seed, so that's not going to happen. But with ten games left in this season, we hold a two-game lead on the Padres for the divisional lead.
Meanwhile, the Giants are two games out of the last wild card spot--behind the Diamondbacks, but still not dead yet. Let's get some wins here, keep pace in the division, and banish the Giants.
UPDATE: I'll be at the Stadium tonight!
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Top of seven Mets up 5-1.
FINAL SCORE...Mets 6 Padres 1.
YAY!
Kersh announces retirement after this season.
Oh and I buried the other lede: I'll be at the game tonight!
i can't take Roberts serious anymore after Snell told him he's staying in the game. i laugh now every time they show Roberts celebrating something good the pitchers do. looks ridiculous to me
We are clinging to a 2-1 lead by our fingertips. This bullpen is a disaster
Here’s Banda for the eighth 😬
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