I have had a very busy weekend. My oldest grandson was in his 1st high school cross country invitational meet. He got through and ran well. He is racing against seasoned cross country runners while his sporting exploits were on the soccer pitch. We joined the team for lunch and then had dinner arrangements. On Sunday, our other grandson had two hockey games: one in the AM in Stockton, and one in the PM in Roseville. I did get to see parts of the Saturday game, but I saw the entire Sunday game.
More cross country and hockey next weekend, plus a wine tasting concert on the grass at a winery in Camino on Saturday night. So life is going to get in the way of LAD/Arizona games next Saturday and Sunday.
It is only one game, but the result was far better than the 1st two games. Still nothing to get excited about, just as there should not have been dejection had they lost. Frustration? Sure. But I do not know why dejection with 31 games still to go. They would have been 2 games behind San Diego, but 5 games up on Cincinnati (#4 in Wild Card). Instead after a very convincing win, the Dodgers are tied for 1st, with the tie breaker over San Diego, and are 6 games over Cincinnati.
I have read it on this site and all over the LAD blogs: LAD sucks. I do not agree. I have my frustrations, but it involves Michael Conforto and Buddy Kennedy still on the roster, and the continuing reliance on the HR. Getting rid of Conforto, Kennedy, and RVS, and that will clear up a lot of my frustrations.
Doc decided to sit Will Smith on Sunday and put Dalton Rushing behind the dish, and it proved to be the best decision he would make that day. The Dodgers loaded the bases with nobody out and “almost” got a Teoscar Hernández grand slam, but settled for a sac fly. Alex Freeland and Andy Pages struck out to end the inning. What started out as a very positive beginning, turned into a disappointing 1 run.
The Dodgers had the bases loaded and nobody out. They scored one run.
Padres center fielder Ramon Laureano caught a potential grand slam. Then Alex Freeland and Andy Pages struck out with two runners on.pic.twitter.com/Oc72iEFf1E
— Noah Camras (@noahcamras) August 24, 2025
Yoshinobu Yamamoto was not dominating, but still pitching very well. He was not as efficient as he was in his last game in Colorado. He made one very bad pitch to Elias Díaz who slugged a 2-run HR, and déjà vu was popping up as San Diego took a 2-1 lead. But he got through 6 innings, and the 2-run HR was the only runs allowed.
After the first 3 batters, Nick Pivetta was pitching a stellar game. He allowed a 1st inning single to Mookie, but did not allow the Dodgers another hit until Freddie Freeman’s solo HR with one out in the 6th. It was a 415 foot HR with an exit velocity of 107.2.
Freddie Freeman ties things up in San Diego 👀 pic.twitter.com/jlNtPqxP9O
— MLB (@MLB) August 24, 2025
After Teo’s sac fly, Pivetta retired 15 of the next 16 batters he faced. Only Mookie reaching 1st on a BB.
With the score tied, Yamamoto went back out in the 6th for a shut down inning. He gave up a one-out single to Manny Machado, he retired the side, striking out Xander Bogaerts for his final batter of the day.
Dodgers went back to the long ball in the 7th. After an Andy Pages single, and a Conforto BB, Rushing crushed a one-out 3-run HR off San Diego All Star reliever, Jeremiah Estrada. After getting Shohei Ohtani on a K, Mookie got his 2nd of 3 singles, that was followed by Freddie’s 2nd HR, and 2 run shot and a 7-2 lead.
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1st big-time defining moment for Dalton Rushing! I can tell you, the care factor for this kid is as big-time as his tools, and, his ONLY concern has been team success.Rushing will be excited about having his moment, no question, but the fact that he helped the team as… pic.twitter.com/XCoIhEf8aK
— Dodgers Daily (@dodger_daily) August 24, 2025
Freddie Freeman has met the moment.
He hit a game-tying home run in the top of the 6th. He potentially hit the putaway home run in the top of the 7th with this two-run shot.
The Dodgers have a five-run 7th to take a 7-2 lead over the Padres.pic.twitter.com/1amMf5XkFs
— Noah Camras (@noahcamras) August 24, 2025
Jack Dreyer was summoned for the 7th. He gave up a lead off double to Gavin Sheets. He got Ramón Laureano to ground out 5-3, and struck out Jake Cronenworth. Doc went back to the pen and brought in Blake Treinen to face Díaz. Treinen struck out Díaz on three pitches. Treinen looks to be rounding into form.
Ohtani slugged a solo HR to finish the scoring for LAD.
Shohei Ohtani officially put this game away.
He crushes a solo home run in the 9th to give the Dodgers an 8-2 lead. It was 108.9 mph off the bat and 409 feet.
It's Ohtani's 45th homer of the season.pic.twitter.com/AwrJW1G9zt
— Noah Camras (@noahcamras) August 24, 2025
After the HR, Shohei had some fun with a heckling Padres fan chirping at Ohtani all game, and sitting next to the LAD dugout.
Ohtani gets back at heckling fan with a homerun 😂
©️SportsNetLA pic.twitter.com/gXIGcpOcCB— James¹⁷¹⁸🎌 (@ShotimeLAD) August 24, 2025
Dave Roberts on the Padres fan that was heckling Shohei Ohtani:
"Very annoying. He was in my right ear the entire game. It was very out of character from Shohei. It was good to see Shohei initiate a high-five. That was fun. It was great to see Shohei show his personality." pic.twitter.com/o9VaYdkB3E
— Doug McKain (@DMAC_LA) August 24, 2025
Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates each faced three batters and retired all three. This was their first game back after being coming off the IL stint. They both looked better on this day. But I agree, it was one day.
Alex Freeland did not get a hit, but made a couple of outstanding plays at 3B.
It’s time to have a conversation about this man pic.twitter.com/MHa1SW7pab
— DodgersMuse (@LADodgersMuse) August 24, 2025
I was taken aback after reading some negative commentary on Freeland’s K in the 1st. Memories for some are short. He was the only offense for the first two games. He homered off Yu Darvish and Estrada.
The Padres bullpen did not dominate LAD in the series. But their SP did pitch exceedingly well against the LAD hitters.
The Dodgers scored 10 runs in the 3 games, and 9 were a direct result of the HR. They were 1-7 wRISP and that was Rushing’s HR. Of course, HRs are great, but there will be games that they will need to manufacture runs.
Soon the Dodgers will be getting back Kiké Hernández, Max Muncy, and Tommy Edman. You have to figure that Kennedy will be DFA’d and Justin Dean will be optioned when the 1st two are activated, and then we will have to see what happens when the 3rd player is activated. Most LAD fans are hoping that it will be a Michael Conforto DFA, but it will probably be not. Freeland and Kim will probably end their regular season in OKC.
Michael Kopech pitched a perfect inning on Sunday. He is not eligible to return until Wednesday, August 27. I am guessing that Edgardo Henriquez will be optioned once Snell returns from paternity leave. We will have to wait and see what happens once Kopech is activated.
Emmet Sheehan, Clayton Kershaw, and Shohei Ohtani will be the SP for the Reds series. Leaving Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto to face off against Arizona.
MiLB GAME SUMMARY REPORTS
OKC Comets 6 – Tacoma Rainiers (Seattle) 3
Landon Knack completed 6.0 innings to get the win. He allowed 3 runs on 5 hits, 3 BB, and registered 5 K. He threw 87 pitches (57 for strikes).
OKC started the scoring in the 1st. Esteury Ruiz singled and was forced out on a Hyeseong Kim ground ball. Kiké Hernández doubled (2), moving Kim to 3rd. Kim scored on a Nick Senzel sac fly.
#Dodgers Kiki Hernadez smokes a line drive over the left fielder's head for a standup double and moving Hyeseong Kim to third. #LetsGoDodgers pic.twitter.com/20DCuKMpOv
— Dodgers_After_Duty (@msalas24) August 24, 2025
Down 3-1 in the 4th, Kiké drew a one-out BB. With 2 outs, Senzel singled and CJ Alexander doubled (20) with Kiké scoring and Senzel to 3rd. Austin Gauthier followed with a 2-run single.
In the 7th, OKC added to the lead with a Senzel solo HR (12).
Nick Senzel extending the lead! 💣 pic.twitter.com/eEMNoEsWIJ
— Oklahoma City Comets (@OKC_comets) August 24, 2025
Michael Kopech relieved Knack in the 7th, and retired the side in order.
#Dodgers Michael Kopech with a clean inning. Two flyouts to left field and ground out to SS. His line – 16 P / 9 S / 1 IP / 0 H / 0 ER / 0 BB / 0 K. Threw mostly breaking ball and slider #LetsGoDodgers pic.twitter.com/2uJ1OG6E2H
— Dodgers_After_Duty (@msalas24) August 24, 2025
José Rodríguez pitched a scoreless final 2 innings for his 4th save.
Three 2-out singles by Alexander, Gauthier, and Noah Miller tallied the final run.
OKC had 16 hits.
- Austin Gauthier – 4-4, 1 BB, 2 RBI
- Esteury Ruiz – 2-5, double (20)
- Nick Senzel – 2-4, 2 run, 2 RBI, Sac Fly, HR (12)
- CJ Alexander – 2-5, 2 runs, 1 RBI, double (20)
- Kiké Hernández – double (2)
NW Arkansas Naturals 4 – Tulsa Drillers 3
23 year old LHP Luke Fox started for Tulsa. He allowed a 1st inning HR giving the Naturals a 1-0 lead.
In the 4th, Fox walked the leadoff hitter who stole 2B. The runner moved up to 3rd on a F9. Another BB and SB before the next batter hit a sac fly, and a 2-0 lead.
Tulsa took the lead in the 5th. Taylor Young singled to lead off the inning. Kole Myers was HBP, and Zach Ehrhard drew a walk to load the bases. James Tibbs III and Kyle Nevin drew bases loaded BB to tie the score. Ehrhard scored the 3rd run on a 6-3 ground out.
Fox completed 6.0 innings before giving way to Jerming Rosario. Fox allowed 2 runs on 2 hits, 3 BB, and 7 K. Rosario and Christian Suarez both completed a scoreless inning. Tulsa then went to their closer Carson Hobbs. Hobbs allowed his 1st run (unearned) on Friday night in a blown save in the 10th. In Sunday’s game, he allowed 2 runs in the 9th on a 2-out bases loaded single giving NWA the walkoff win.
Tulsa managed 4 hits with Griffin Lockwood-Powell (10) and Kyle Nevin (6) each hitting a double.
Quad Cities River Bandits (KC) 4 – Great Lakes Loons 3
The Great Lakes Loons scored a run in the ninth but left the tying run in scoring position, dropping the series finale 4-3 to the Quad Cities River Bandits.
Down 4-2 in the ninth, the Loons would have three straight batters reach with two outs. Quad Cities reliever Tommy Molsky hit two batters to set up Kendall George. George roped the first pitch he saw to right field to score Cameron Decker. The River Bandits would close it out with Erick Torres making a catch on the warning track on a ball hit to left field by Josue De Paula.
Quad Cities scored the first two runs of the game. Nolan Sailors had a hit in the first and second innings and was driven in by Sam Kulasingam both times. An RBI single in the first and a sac fly in the second.
After River Bandits starter Drew Beam stranded three in his first three frames, Great Lakes got on the board in the fourth. Zyhir Hope, who went 2-for-2 with two walks, doubled to start the top of the fourth. An errant pickoff attempt put him to third, and a Jake Gelof groundout plated him. Gelof has 23 RBI in August, the fourth-most by a Loon in August, all-time.
Zyhir Hope had 2 hits today for Great Lakes, and the 2nd one was a 112 MPH double. He also walked twice and scored a run, so he was his typical wrecking ball in the middle of the Loons' lineup.
Dude can absolutely light up a baseball!
Hope has back-to-back 2-hit games!… pic.twitter.com/mMW4tuNgno
— Dodgers Daily (@dodger_daily) August 24, 2025
Great Lakes starter Payton Martin went 3.1 innings, taken out due to an apparent injury. Trevor Werner’s parting shot, a solo home run, made it 3-1 in the fourth.
Quad Cities pitching gift-wrapped a run for the Loons in the sixth. L.P. Langevin and Max Martin combined to walk four; Elijah Hainline’s bases-loaded walk pulled the Loons within a run.
The Loons bullpen permitted one run over 4.2 innings. Joel Ibarra got the first two outs in the sixth inning, but was removed after an awkward fall off the mound. Cam Day rushed into the game, allowed a walk, and then back-to-back singles. Carter Frederick’s RBI single made it 4-2.
Evan Shaw threw 1.2 innings scoreless, extending his scoreless inning streak to 10, dating back to August 9th. Shaw has the best scoreless inning streak this year for a Loon, 15.1 from July 1st to August 6th.
Great Lakes is a half-game back of a playoff spot with 12 games remaining.
Kendall George and Zyhir Hope were the only two Loons with a multi-hit game (2 each), with Hope hitting his 26th double.
Modesto Nuts (Seattle) 9 – Rancho Cucamonga Quakes 6
The Modesto Nuts smacked a couple of home runs over their final two at-bats, taking the lead for good for a 9-6 win over the Quakes on Sunday night. A three-run homer from Cesar Quintas gave Modesto a 7-6 advantage and Dervy Ventura’s two-run shot in the ninth gave the Nuts some cushion, as they salvaged a split of the six-game series, preventing Rancho from a third straight series-win.
Oswaldo Osorio enjoyed his first multi-homer game as a Quake, as his third of the year gave Rancho a 1-0 lead in the second, before his two-run blast tied the game at 4-4 in the sixth.
Jose Meza’s eighth homer of the year gave the Quakes a 6-4 lead in the seventh inning.
The very next inning, Quintas put the Nuts ahead to stay with his blast against Connor Godwin.
Rancho starter Sterling Patick was brilliant again on Sunday, tossing five innings of scoreless baseball.
After an 0-12 start to his professional career, LAD 3rd round draft pick out of the University of Cincinnati, Landyn Vidourek is 5 for his last 9 AB, including 2 doubles and a triple.
Vidourek joined 2025 draft pick Charles Davalan starting his professional career in the California League. Davalan is off to a far better start: 11-19, triple, HR, 8 RBI, 2 BB, 3 K, .579/.691/.842/1.461. Thus far, the California League is not a problem for Davalan.
Remember the name #Dodgers fans: Charles Davalan.
Davalan, 21, was assigned to the @RCQuakes back on August 19 from the ACL Dodgers. In just a short sample size of 4 games played, the 21-year-old OF has produced a slashline of .579/.619/.842 (11-19, 1 HR, 8 RBI, 1.461 OPS). pic.twitter.com/mZJIBoOkP5
— Adrian Medina (@AdrianMedina_16) August 24, 2025
Joendry Vargas has been transferred to the 60 day IL thus ending his 2025 season, riddled with injuries.
- Landyn Vidourek – 2-4, double (2), triple (1)
- Ching-Hsien Ko – 2-4, 2 runs, triple (1)
#Dodgers Ching-Hsien Ko with a hard-hit line drive into the right center field gap for his first triple since being called up. @RCQuakes #DodgersProspects #LetsGoDodgers pic.twitter.com/jKUiLf5xk2
— Dodgers_After_Duty (@msalas24) August 25, 2025
- Oswaldo Osorio – 2-3, 1 BB, 2 runs, 3 RBI, 2 HR (4)
- Jose Meza – 1-3, 1 BB, 1 run, 2 RBI, HR (8)
I almost hate to ask this but at my level it’s probably ok, I suppose. I hadn’t heard of Ramón Laureano before the Padres picked him up…but, how did the Dodgers not have an interest in him? Is there any light to be shed on how we missed out or would I be giving him too much credit? TIA.
Laureano is an 8-year MLB veteran. His first two seasons in Oakland he hit .283. His career high of 24 homers came in his second season. Over the next 3 seasons, which included the short season 2020, he barely hit .225. He was hitting .213 when Oakland traded him to Cleveland in 23. He finished that year at .224 with 9 homers. Cleveland traded him to Atlanta in 24 when he was hitting .143. He hit .296 for the Braves. He was hitting .290 with 17 homers when the Padres traded for him and O’Hearn. Like Ted said, taking O’Hearn was part of the deal. O’Hearn is a DH-1st baseman. He has played 116 MLB games in the outfield and is an adequate defender. Since both are free agents at the end of the year, maybe Freidman did not want to send cash and five prospects for a couple of rentals. O’Hearn has played mostly RF, and he is a left-handed bat. AF instead opted for a speedy bat to ball versatile outfielder in Call.
Laureano has a club option of $6.5MM, which I am sure San Diego will gladly pick up. O’Hearn was a rental.
I do not know if O’Hearn had to be part of the deal. I speculated as such last week and thought that if the Dodgers could find a place for Buddy Kennedy they could do the same for O’Hearn. If they were a package, that should not have stopped the Dodgers if they wanted Laureano or O’Hearn who could also play OF.
The Padres did not give up top talent. This was a quantity over quality deal. They gave up their #4, #6, #12, and #29 prospect, plus two not in the top 30. That sounds like a lot, but that is one player with a 50FV, 2 45FV and 1 40FV, plus the two not in top 30.
There is no possible the Dodgers could not have put together a better package if they wanted Laureano. I suspect Laureano was not as coveted by AF/BG than I and others were. He was the one OF that I believed could help the team. Alex Call is fine, and he cost the Dodgers a 45 FV and a 40FV. Not onerous. Plus Call is controlled to 2030, and is apparently a super 2 arbitration player, meaning he will have 4 years of arbitration beginning 2026 through 2029.
doubledigitmind, Laureano played for Oakland his first five and half years of his career. He’s bounced around the past three years. He signed with Baltimore this offseason. With Baltimore having a down season I believe they wanted to reduce payroll. So, in order to get Laureano, O’Hearn had to be part of the deal. SD traded several prospects to Baltimore. Maybe, AF might have wanted Laureano, but there was no way he would take O’Hearn too. And, I doubt AF would trade that many prospects in one deal. None of the trading reasoning is factual. It’s a guess on my part.
FYI – if you go to MLB.com it’s easy to get all kinds of info on current players.
All questions are welcomed. There are many very knowledgeable contributors here that are happy to provide answers.
To both Michael and Ted, thank you for taking the time to enlighten me regarding Laureano and I better understand why he is not a Dodger.
You’re welcome and come post anytime. You can also find a ton of info on baseball reference.com. That is where I looked up Laureano’s stats and contract status.
Rushing with arguably THE biggest hit so far in this season.
Happy for the kid.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
His biggest. The biggest would be the one that wins the World Series if they get there.
Happy for the young man. Team needed that win badly. Everyday I go to MLB news hoping to see a Conforto DFA.
The Dodgers released Heyward and his $9 million salary last year but continue to hold onto Conforto. I don’t get it.
Neither do I, but Heyward was down to to less than a quarter of that salary. Conforto getting 8 mil more than he was. Maybe Doc just likes having him around. He is well liked by his teammates, or maybe they are just waiting to see if he just goes off in some mad salary push for next year. Right now, he would be lucky to have any team wanting him at all. His walk yesterday though was clutch. One of the very few good at bats he has had in a while.
Don’t they get as the season progresses? How much more is Conforto owed?
About 3 or 4 mil. They should DFA him, I have no clue why AF has not done that, then he goes tonight and gets two doubles and makes a great catch in left.
Is Ko still growing? Kid looks big.
Happy to have Treinen/Scott/Yates. In retrospect, maybe we did well to hang around during their absence.
Ko is 19, so maybe? He is 6’3″ 215 pounds per his Baseball Reference page.
On September 1st teams a carry one extra player. So one of Kim/Freeland should be on the roster. I still see Conforto being DFA’d with Kim replacing him as the left hand bat. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Kim is playing LF (a positive he also played in the KBO). Time will tell.
Congrats to Rushing for coming up with a huge hit and take a lead in the game. He has a tough assignment offensively with only getting a couple of starts a week. It’s hard enough as a rookie to adjust to MLB pitching as it is. Very impressed with his handling of the pitching staff.
Freddie went all Freddie on the Padres. Will this finally be the game that kickstarts this team to a 4-5-6-7 game winning streak? With all the returning walking wounded and a somewhat weak schedule the rest of the way they have a excellent opportunity to stay in first place. Then a healthy next couple of months with all areas of the game of baseball locked in.
Carry on.
Sometimes all it takes is one clutch at bat to turn a team around. Me, I am hoping they strike out less and make contact more. That will solve a bunch of problems. Teo was unlucky. He tattooed that pitch. Would have left the yard in LA.
Six games at home. While the Dodgers are playing the Reds, the Padres will be playing the Mariners in Seattle and facing some pretty decent pitching. While LA is entertaining Arizona this weekend the Padres will be in Minnesota facing the depleted Twins.
Cincinnati is a decent team vying for a playoff spot. Don’t take them lightly.
“This is who we are”. I believe both Roberts and Rojas said that. And who doesn’t agree with it? They have all they need right now to beat anybody. They just need to come together and finish this.
I’ve become a Dalton Rushing fan. He looks like a leader to me. A catcher who has a 39% CS, can hit 20 home runs and squat 800 pounds is someone I want in my lineup.
I still believe Kim is right for this team. He’s a Gold Glove SS which tells me he can play anywhere defensively, he can run, he can make contact, and can also squat an insane amount of weight. The kid is an exceptional athlete. It’s my opinion he’d be a terrific #9 hitter. He just needs experience
“This is who we are”.
I would feel better if this is who we are without Conforto.
For now at least, he’s a part of “who we are”. He had one good month, July, where he OPSd .827. I think he has the rest of this month to start repeating that and if not, adios Mike, better call Call. Or Kim maybe.
Can we start to maintain some level of consistency we showed yesterday? Big slug, excellent starting pitching with shutdown bullpen. Not much of that together this year. But now we’re getting healthy. No excuses!
Agree but would still like the offense to be less reliant on the HR to score runs. Play good fundamental baseball, sac bunt, go oppo, hit behind the runner and as Doc said on his presser after yesterdays game….have a plan, shorten up and play team baseball.
Still watching way too many center-cut fastballs called for strikes as the batter keeps his bat on his shoulder and then swinging at a ball well outside the strike zone. Loved Rushing’s HR AB but the at-bat before that I believe he had a 3-1 count and swung and missed on a ball outside the zone and then watched strike 3 right down the middle.
It’s time to press on the gas and get it going. Go Dodgers!
Doc had this to say after watching what SD hitters were doing on Friday and Saturday nights.
“You saw (Friday) night with Manny (Machado), guy in scoring position, he shortens up and lines the ball to center field,” Roberts said. “And Laureano tonight shortens up — and he’s a dead pull guy — and blocked the ball the other way to drive in a couple runs. Just finding ways to create offense. And (the Padres pitchers) are good. So you have to take what the pitcher gives you and try to create something.
“You can’t always go for that big swing. You’ve got to kind of shorten up. I mean, we have it in there, and we do it at times. But just collectively, I just don’t see us doing that collectively. … So now it’s just kind of getting the guys that have played important ballgames to kind of wrap their head around helping the ballclub. Your stats are your stats, and you got to kind of just isolate that particular game. Whatever you have that night, you got to go with it. And I think good things will happen.”
Maybe Doc should tell AF to get him a hitting coach who knows how to do this. I am not as confidant that the HR barrage on Sunday will result in a change. This team was built on slug, and it will win or lose on whether they can effectively slug. As Doc said, the Padres were taking what was pitched and going with it. Whether it was Machado, O’Hearn, Laureano, or Cronenworth…the Padres hit the outside pitch to the oppo field. Not to pick on Mookie, because he did get three hits. But there was one AB with the pitch on the outside part of the plate (a strike), he tried to pull it and grounded out meekly to SS.
I mentioned it last week, but look at their statcast spray charts and compare this year to last year, and how many balls hit into the opposite field last year compared to this year. When your strategy is pull side power, the manufactured runs do not magically appear. Great pitching like they will see in the playoffs can usually shut that down.
Teoscar Sac Fly – Pitch was middle up.
Freddie HR #1 – Pitch was mostly in middle middle square
Dalton’s 3-run shot – Pitch was mostly in middle middle square, but lower than Freddie’s
Freddie HR #2 – Inside and thigh high, right where he likes it
Shohei – Pitch was middle up
LAD hitters can hit HR if the pitcher is missing. Dodger pitchers stayed away from the middle, and the only HR they got was a hanging splitter that Elias Díaz just crushed. Other than that, a lot of flairs that Conforto watched drop in front of him, a lot of oppo doubles, and clutch single here and there. They only scored 9 runs over the weekend series, but with their pitching that was enough to win 2 games.
Doc is saying what all of us say on this board continuously harp on.
Our lineup is totally lacking in foot speed with the guys we currently have on the roster. The one guy who is actually fast (Dean) isn’t allowed to bat.
That should change once we get Kim and Edman back. Those two, along with Rojas also seem to be the only ones who have any clue as to how to lay down a bunt.
I guess what I’m trying to say here is that once Kim and Edman return, Doc will be able to do things offensively that he doesn’t have the pieces to do right now. And if the manager is complaining that his hitters aren’t doing what they should in terms of going with the pitch, changing their two-strike approach, etc., then the front office/manager/hitting coach dynamic is completely screwed up. Why are the players not listening?
Tonight’s lineup is out.
Ohtani, Betts, Freeman, Smith, Teo, Freeland (3b), CONFORTO, Pages, Rojas
Conforto starts and Call sits. Total bullshit. What the hell am I missing??
I figured it out. Dave wants this board to have something we can all agree on. Therefore Conforto plays so we can all complain about the same thing. He is unifying the fans! Great job Dave!
Kennedy gets dfa’d Nomar in the booth with Joe tonight
Crazy stat I learned today: Ohtani next HR will be his 100th as a Dodger.
Muncy update
https://x.com/THEREAL_DV/status/1960113543782818129
Greene really needs to stop throwing mediocre sliders in the middle of the plate to Pages! Way to go Andy!!!!!! If we played every game at Dodger stadium, Pages would be in the MVP conversation!
Emmet freakin Sheehan!!!! Young studs stepping up!
Please, give us more of Nomar. SO much better than Orel.
Got that right.
Very impressive outting from Sheehan. He’s making a case to be in the playoff rotation.
Indeed. Heck of a performance tonight.