Dustin May got the start for LA against Nick Pivetta of the Padres. Ohtani led off with a double. Betts grounded out. Freeman then doubled to right scoring Ohtani. Teo hit a ground ball to Machado, who threw the ball away, resulting in an error. Freeman went to third. Smith hit a sac-fly to right scoring Freeman. Muncy walked and Pages flied out to center. LA 2, SD 0. May was not sharp at all. Tatis and Arraez singled. Machado doubled to right, Tatis scored and Arraez stopped at third. Merrill hit a sac-fly to Kim, tying the game. Sheets popped out and Bogaerts grounded out to end the inning. 2-2.
LA went down in order in the second. Cronenworth walked, and Wade sacrificed him to second. Diaz flew out to Teo in right. Cronenworth to third. Tatis Jr. walked. He then stole second, and Smith threw the ball into center field, Cronenworth scored. 3-2. Tatis went to third on the error. Arraez grounded out. Betts and Freeman singled to start the third. With Mookie on third, Teo hit a sac-fly to right. 3-3. Smith homered to left, his sixth, Freeman scored. 5-3 LA. Muncy grounded out to first. Pages singled. Edman singled to right with Pages going to third, Edman took second on the throw. Kim struck out.
Bottom of the third, Machado singled and Merrill walked. Sheets flied out to center. Bogaerts walked loading the bases. Wade tripled to center clearing the bases. 6-5 SD. Diaz popped out to end the inning. Ohtani walked, Betts flied out and Freeman singled to left. Teo hit into a force play and Smith struck out. May settled down and got Tatis, Arraez and Machado out in order in the 4th.
Matsui took over for Pivetta. Muncy singled. Pages flied out to Tatis in right. Edman struck out but Muncy took second on a wild pitch. Kim doubled to right and Muncy scored 6-6. Ohtani grounded out to end the inning. May still pitching, Merrill struck out. Sheets singled, Bogaerts hit into a force play, and Cronenworth flied out to end the inning. Both bullpens pitched clean innings in the sixth and seventh. Reynolds and Estrada for the Padres and Banda went 2 for LA. In the 8th, Edman grounded out and Morejon took over for the Padres. Kike pinch hit for Kim and struck out.
Ohtani hit a ground ball right back to Morejon who threw wildly to first. Ohtani took second on the error. Betts drew an intentional walk. Freeman struck out. Vesia came in to pitch the 8th. Sheets struck out, Bogaerts grounded out and Cronenworth flied out to right. Suarez in to pitch for SD in the 9th. Teo, Smith and Muncy went down 1-2-3. Yates in to pitch for LA. Lockridge and Diaz struck out. Tatis walked and Arraez flied out to Teo.
Top of the 10th. Peralta in to pitch for the Padres. Muncy the ghost runner at second. Pages doubled to left center scoring Muncy. 7-6. Edman singled to right scoring Pages. 8-6. Kike flied out, Ohtani hit into a force play. Betts flied out to deep center. Scott in to pitch the 10th for LA. Arraez the ghost runner on second. Machado called out on strikes. Merrill doubles in Arraez. Sheets popped out to Muncy, and Bogaerts flied out to Pages. Final score, LA 8 SD 7. Winning pitcher, Yates 4-2. Loser Peralta. Scott gets his 12th save. LA not leads the Padres by 2 games.
There were no minor league games.
Exciting but nerve-wracking win. May did not pitch well at all. But he settled down his last two innings. Bullpen did a bang-up job. They will have to do another one tomorrow. Cease pitching for the Pads, and a bullpen game for the blue. Giants pass SD and are 1.5 games back of LA. Gonsolins MRI showed no damage to his repaired elbow. Glasnow with throw a pen this week and Sheehan gets another start at AAA.
Yes, nerve wrecking indeed. #
Our starting rotation is wobbly at the moment to say the least. May with another clunker of a start.
Dodgers will need Snell, Glasnow and Othani back for the stretch run.
If they do they will be very tough to beat in the postseason with those three plus Yamamoto in the rotation.
Bullpen immediately looks a lot better with Kopech and Yates back.
hate the bullpen game today. IMHO it would be smarter to bring up Miller and let him start. Bullpen is already taxed . In the worst outcome Miller does not last long and the bullpen has to pick it up but if he does okay or better it would be a blessing for the pen.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!
Would make sense, Miller is set to start tonight’s game for OKC. He is 2-1 with a 4.14 ERA down there. Bryan Reynolds rumors have kicked up again. Many pundits think LA needs to move on from Conforto. My problem with the Reynolds idea is the fact that he has 5 years plus an option year left on his deal for 105 million.
I’d prefer Miller to a bullpen game too.
In addition to the reasons you mention, a strong performance could really boost his confidence. Miller was very good as a rookie and there’s no good reason he can’t bounce back.
Another vote for Miller
I agree…..Miller, with one stipulation….he has to pitch 7 innings no matter what….
San Diego gave up 2 unearned. The Dodgers thank you.
Miller’s last start was Wednesday against Reno. Took 98 pitches to go 5. 3 earned, 4 BB’s and 1 K. Gave up 1 HR. He could pitch today but the Dodgers must feel they have a better shot at beating Cease with a bullpen game.
This is who they are now. Minor League starters, 4+ ERA 4-5 inning veteran starters and bullpen games. Hopefully they hold on until the first string starters get back.
Was just checking Yamamoto’s stats. He’s already 17 innings short of his total innings pitched last year. He has thrown as many as 193 innings in Japan, last done when he was 23. He’s started 13 games this year. All the projections sites, for whatever their worth, have him starting no more than 17. Am I the only one that sees an R&R in his future?
Yeah, he’ll be on the IL soon. Arm fatigue, elbow discomfort, shoulder soreness.
Definitely and said so last week. Be in big trouble if he goes down.
He might not want to, but I think AF might have to trade for a top end Starter as not sure any of Glassnow, Snell or Sasaki will be back and i think it’s fair to say that if we’re hoping CK, May or Gonsolin are going to improve enough for the Post Season we will be disappointed.
Our lineup is a lot better with Will in it.
If Houston makes Valdez available, I would love to see LA jump on that deal.
I agree. Valdez is a rental, which AF prefers, but he will still be available because every contender (except maybe SFG) will be after him, including NYY, NYM, Chicago Cubs, SD…His 2025 salary probably also puts Cleveland, Detroit, and Minnesota as possible teams.
Valdez is a workhorse. He had 201.1 IP in 2022, 198.0 IP in 2023,176.1, in 2024, and is on pace to exceed 200 IP in 2025. From what I can see, he has been on the IL twice. 2021 for a fractured ring finger (about two months). And not quite 3 weeks last April with elbow inflammation.
Valdez is on a 1 year $18MM contract.
I still cannot see him being available, but there sure is a lot of smoke out there on the rumors.
I agree. MLBTR reported that Hoyer said the Cubs would be looking to add starting pitching at the deadline. I know many would like to see Buehler come home. He is 4-4 with an ERA above 5. He has also given up 10 homers in 48 innings.
Andy Pages with the huge game winning hit. He is the reason we have runways. Tho I would prefer the length of an aircraft carrier, smarter minds than me make those decisions. Kudos to Andy. Tho as an irrational fan, I reserve the right, if Pages goes 0 for a series or two, to be the first one up and screaming for AF to send him down!
Speaking of runways, a month ago Muncy had an OPS of .578 and Teo’s was .933. Today it’s Muncy at .779 and Teo at .773. Baseball is a hard game!
Actually, the winning run was driven in by Edman. Pages double put them ahead 7-6. Teo has struggled since he came off of the IL. Kim with another hit off of a left-handed pitcher. He is now 3-3 off of lefties with a double, and a homer. Drove in the tying run last night.
Was it not that the rbi that put your team ahead for good was ruled the winning RBI ?
Go Dodgers11111111111
Not when the Padres scored that 7th run in the 10th. Would have tied the game had not Edman knocked in Pages. You actually have to knock in the run that gives your team the win. Pages RBI did not do that.
Oh and Badger, how many runs do we need tonight?
Sauer vs Cease?
With that matchup one might think the Padres would be favored. They are not. Dodgers by 1.5, O/U opening around 9. The Dodger bullpen games are typically low scoring. Leading up to this series the Padres have had trouble scoring. So, for this game I’m gonna say ….. gotta score 8.
Cease has an ERA of 4.72 and is a 4-5 inning starter. He has a 1-5 record. Dodgers should be able to get to him.
They DFAd Urena. Sauer has pitched 22.2 innings at AAA and 20.2 in the majors this year. He has a 3.05 ERA in the bigs. 5 of his 6 games at AAA were starts.
San Diego. I used to take dates down to the zoo there.
Reminds me of a joke:
A guy loads his family into the family car and heads to the zoo.
The zoo had one animal in it. A dog.
It was Shih Tzu.
San Diego is glorious, weather wise.
And the Salk Institute is one of my favorite modern buildings.
Other than that?
I used to have fun at Comicon.
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A date at a phone animal zoo? Sounds more like you took her to a dog rescue center and won her over by adopting a lonely mutt. That’s what Friedman usually does to find relief pitchers.
Nice Bum! I used to take dates to the LA Zoo, but usually they were ladies who had kids. Loved the reptile house.
I liked the pink flamingos just inside the park and the polar bears.
They had a two-headed snake in there, that was just the weirdest thing to me.
So, nobody but Sam gets the joke?
I got it. I liked it but still hope I don’t repeat it.
Seems like last night’s game was played backwards from a traditional game back in the day. I remember matchups with starting pitchers like Koufax or Drysdale vs Marichal or Gibson where the only hope was to get the starter out of the game and get to the bullpen, somehow.
Last night was the exact opposite. Both May and Pivetta had their opponents running to the bat racks and the hope was to get as much out of each, without major damage, until you could get to the bullpen.
It’s a new day.
This has been discussed and posted almost to a nauseating degree, but fans and MLB itself would LOVE to see starting pitching become more heroic and center-stage than it is right now.
Just too many factors working against it.
Ben Clemens on Andy Pages. From the last paragraph:
“Is that a star-level player? I mean, it definitely can be….”
If May doesn’t develop a change up that breaks similar to his 2 seamer, he won’t be an October pitcher
If May doesn’t start pitching better, he will be on a different team come next season.
Glasnow, YY, Snell.
Three of the four October slots are already spoken for.
Even if May develops, it’s unclear if he’ll be a starter for the playoffs, no?
If he is healthy, Kersh is going to be one of those guys.
Ohtani wants to be that 4th playoff starter.
Josue De Paula interviewed on the latest MLB Pipeline podcast:
Is there a tentative probable starter schedule? I’m thinking of going to Denver for a game and I will be going to Milwaukee for a game. I’m hoping to see Kershaw pitch in both games.
Kershaw could potentially pitch either the second or third game in Denver. He is scheduled to pitch either Saturday or Sunday against the Giants. He would then start either Thursday against SD, or Friday against the Nats. That would line him up to pitch one of the games in Denver. That all depends on how many days rest they give him. The Milwaukee games are the 7th-9th of July. A Mon-Wed Series. Just keep checking on the Dodgers broadcast after next weekend when the homestand ends.
Stratton elected free agency after being outrighted by the Dodgers. Loutos selected off waivers by the Nats. Starting lineup for tonight’s game. Ohtani DH, Betts SS, Freeman 1B, Teo RF, Muncy 3B, Pages CF, Conforto LF, Edman 2B, Rushing C, Sauer P
So Kim sits again. What a waste.
I’m baffled and ticked at this. We’ve all had enough of Conforto. Maybe he makes everyone eat crow with a big game tonight, or maybe unicorns and fairies actually exist.
Miller gave up 2 runs on 2 hits in the first inning to the Isotopes. Former Rockie, Sean Bouchard hit a 2-run jack off of him. OKC got one run back in the top of the inning. Athlon Sports believes LA will trade Miller at the deadline. The good news is Miller is throwing strikes. He has not walked anyone in his two innings of work so far, he has 17 strikes and just 7 balls in his 24 pitches. Aaron Nola of the Phillies shut down for two weeks with a stress reaction. When asked if Ohtani would pitch before the All-Star break, Doc said the chances are north of zero. Chris Taylor placed on the IL with a broken hand. He was hit in the 8th inning of last night’s game but remained in the game. X-Rays after the game revealed the fracture. Austin Gomber, on a rehab assignment is pitching for the Isotopes against OKC.
Miller imploded he gave up 11 hits 10 earned runs walked 3 and struck out 1 in 3 and a third innings
I hope tonight cures us of bullpen games.
Heh
I understand this game, but don’t like it.
forgettable game, waste of time ..and totally expected it.