Saturday, August 22, 2026

Game 130 Thread: Aug 22 vs. Pirates, 7p

It's go time, $60M dude.

Tarik Skubal (7-7, 2.85) vs. Jared Jones (2-5, 4.78).

With last night's gut-punch news that Andy Pages' HBP has fractured his hand (Pages will be out four to six weeks), the Dodgers have no choice but to expect our $60M embarrassment, Kyle Tucker (WAR: 0.0), to finally get off the schneid and hit.

Tucker can't play defense anywhere close to Pages, so moving him to center field won't be an option (looks like Tommy Edman and Kiké Hernandez will get starts in center). But if he could just hit ahead of his .230 average (worst of all Dodger regulars), maybe we can survive these next four months.

Man, this is a bummer.

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