No-hitters. The Dodgers have actually had 26 in their history including the ones thrown prior to the NL coming into existence in 1890, with Sandy’s perfecto on September 9th, 1965, being the most famous. Three of those 26 came prior to 1890. In the last three games they came close to having two more. I firmly believe Doc should have left Yoshi in to get the last out. He had handled Jackson all night including striking him out once. Since today is the 60th anniversary of Sandy’s perfecto, this is a perfect subject. What difference would five or six more pitches have made? You know what you have on the mound. You never know how a relief pitcher is going to perform. We have seen that from an inconsistent bullpen all year. 
In Glasnow’s game, Doc made the right decision. Glasnow had the Rockies on their heels all night. But he has rarely reached 100 pitches in a game. Even he acknowledged that Doc did the right thing. Putting Treinen in the game after his meltdown on Saturday was the right move too. Doc has to show those guys he really trusts them. Fans booed Scott after he gave up the leadoff double to Ritter. The booing was because the no-hitter was gone, and the fans have seen Scott implode one too many times.
In his defense, the loss on Saturday was on Treinen. He did not do his job which was simple enough, get one frippen out. Double, hit batter, walk, walk is not getting it done. He set Scott up for failure. Scott had to be perfect. He made a really good pitch to Rivera. Rivera just reached out and got the bat on the ball. Had he hit it harder, it would have been a liner to center that Dean could have caught. Last night Scott finished the job. Yes, the no-hitter was gone, but on a night when your closest pursuer gets a walk off win, the W was way more important. Especially since this weekend they are playing a very hot Giants team.
Thirteen of the Dodgers no-hitters have come since they moved West. Four of the ten belong to one pitcher, Koufax. Lefties have thrown seven of them. Valenzuela, Reuss and Kershaw threw the other three. Adonis Terry (2), Carl Erskine (2) and Koufax are the only Dodger pitchers with more than one. Koufax also threw two one hitters. May 23, 1960, against the Pirates. He gave up a double to the pitcher, Bernie Daniels in the second inning of a 1-0 win. On June 20, 1965, he gave up a fifth inning homer to Jim Hickman of the Mets in a 2-1 Dodger win.
As of last season, there have been 33 one hitters in LA history, 34 if you include the gem last night. Don Sutton, who never threw a no-hitter, had five of them as a Dodger. No other Dodger pitcher had more than two. One of the more memorable one-hitters was Rich Hill’s 10 inning 1-0 loss to the Pirates in 2017. Today is the anniversary of Sandy’s perfecto. Jeff posted an audio of Vinny’s call. 
#1 Koufax Vs Bob Miller of the Mets on Saturday, June 30th, 1962. Koufax would walk 5 and strikeout 13 on his way to his first no-hitter. The Dodgers scored four in the bottom of the first inning and they did it with two outs. Wills and Gilliam made outs. Willie Davis tripled. Tommy Davis singled him home. Fairly walked and Howard singled home Davis. Roseboro then doubled scoring Fairly and Howard. LA would not score again until Howard homered, his 8th, off of Ray Daviault in the 7th inning. Koufax threw 138 pitches in the win. Attendance 29,797.
#2 Koufax Vs Juan Marichal and the Giants on Saturday, May 11th, 1963. Koufax would walk only 2 in this game, but he also only struck out 4. The Dodgers scored the game’s first run in the bottom of the second inning when Wally Moon hit his 1st homer of the year off of Marichal. After that, the game was a pitcher’s duel until the bottom of the sixth inning. They scored 3 that inning with Marichal managing to get just one out. He was relieved by John Pregenzer who got the last 2 outs. They managed 9 hits and 1 walk off of Juan. After pitching a scoreless 8th inning, LA roughed up Pregenzer for 4 runs in the bottom of the 8th. The big blow was a 2-run double by Fairly. Pregenzer also walked 4 along with the 4 hits he allowed. LA got a DP after one of Sandy’s walks, so the Giants left just 1 runner on base. Koufax made 111 pitches. Attendance: 49,807. 
#3 Koufax Vs Chris Short and the Phillies at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia on Thursday, June 4th, 1964. Koufax would allow one base runner in this game on a walk. He struck out 12. Short pitched a very good game also shutting out the Dodgers until the seventh inning when Howard hit a three-run homer to left field with no outs. Gilliam and Tommy Davis had singled to open the inning. Those were the only three runs scored in the game. Koufax got his 6th win and he threw just 97 pitches. The game took 1 hour 55 minutes to play. Attendance: 29,709. 
#4 Koufax Vs Bob Hendley of the Cubs at Dodger Stadium, Thursday, September 9th, 1965. Sandy Koufax became the first and so far, only Dodger to throw a perfect game. There was only one hit in the entire game, and it did not figure in the scoring. Sweet Lou Johnson, who was brought up to replace the injured Tommy Davis, drew a walk in the bottom of the fifth inning. He was sacrificed to second by Ron Fairly. He then stole third and scored when Chris Krug’s throw sailed into left field. He then broke up Hendley’s no-hitter with a double in the seventh inning. Meanwhile the Cubs failed to get to Koufax who struck out 14, including the last six batters in a row. In winning his 22nd game of the year, he threw 113 pitches. The game took 1:43 to play. Attendance was 29,139. It is no surprise to me that three of Sandy’s no-hitters were pitched at Dodger Stadium. It was more of a pitcher’s park in the 60’s. 
#5 Bill Singer Vs Woodie Fryman and the Phillies at Dodger Stadium, Monday, July 29th, 1970. The Dodgers got Singer a 2-0 lead in the first on singles by Willie Davis and Wes Parker driving in Grabarkewitz and Sizemore who had also singled. LA would score one more in the third and 2 in the fifth for a 5-0 lead. Both teams made 2 errors each. Singer did not walk anyone, and he struck out 10. The errors were made by Singer himself, plus he hit Oscar Gamble twice. The game took two hours and two minutes to play. Attendance was 12,454.
#6 Jerry Ruess Vs Vida Blue and the Giants at Candlestick Park, San Francisco, Friday, June 27th, 1980. LA would pile up 17 hits in this game. They scored 1 in the first and 1 in the third before Dusty Baker hit his 17th homer, a 3-run shot to left off of Blue in the fifth to break the game open. LA scored 2 more in that inning. Garvey added a solo shot, his 16th, off of Gary Lavelle in the seventh to end the scoring. The only base runner Ruess allowed was on Bill Russell’s 9th error of the year. He struck out just 2 and made 107 pitches. The game took 2:13 to play and the attendance was 20,285. 
#7 Fernando Valenzuela Vs Jose De Leon and the Cardinals at Dodger Stadium on Friday, June 29th, 1990. Fernando was in his 11th season as a Dodger and past his best years. The 29-year-old from Mexico stymied the Cardinals allowing just 3 walks in this no-hitter. He threw 119 pitches. LA scored a run in the first, single runs in the fifth, sixth and eighth, and two runs in the seventh. Hubie Brooks homered in the fifth and Juan Samuel hit one in the eight. They had 12 hits and 4 walks, and the Cardinals made 3 errors. Fernando Struck out 7. The game took 2:47 to play and the attendance was 38,583. 
#8 Kevin Gross Vs Francisco Olivera and the Giants at Dodger Stadium, Monday, August 17th, 1992. Eric Karros hit his 17th homer of the year to start the scoring in the second inning. The Dodgers added another run in the bottom of the fourth when Brett Butler doubled and was singled home by Henry Rodriguez. Gross walked 2 and struck out 6 while making 99 pitches. Gross also hit a batter. Time of game was 2:23 and the attendance was 25,561. 
#9 Ramon Martinez Vs Josh Beckett and the Marlins at Dodger Stadium, Friday, July 14th, 1995. The Dodgers scored 2 runs in the third, 1 in the fourth and 4 in the sixth for the 7-0 win. Burkett went 5 innings allowing 3 of the runs on 6 hits and a walk. He struck out 6. LA had 10 hits, with Jose Offerman driving in 4 runs. He had a triple and Hollandsworth doubled. The only Marlins base runner was Tommy Gregg who drew a walk. Marinez struck out 8 and made 114 pitches. Game time was 2:21 in front of 30,988. It was Martinez’s 9th win of the year. 
#10 Hideo Nomo Vs Bill Swift and the Rockies at Coors Field, Tuesday, September 17th, 1996. The game is historic since it was the first no-hitter by a Japanese pitcher. The game was delayed 2 hours by a rain storm in Denver, and it was still drizzling when crew chief Bill Hohn deiced the conditions were good enough to play. The game was being broadcast to Japan and it was around 5P.M. in Japan when the bottom of the 9th inning started. People stopped traffic to watch the big monitors in Tokyo. The temperature at the start of the game was about 46 degrees. The Dodgers jumped on Swift for 5 runs in his five innings of work, getting 7 hits along with 2 walks. Two of the hits went for extra bases, Mondesi and Wayne Kirby had doubles. Mondesi was 3-5 with 2 runs driven in. Wallach hit a 2-run homer in the 9th for the final 2 runs in a 9-0 win. Nomo walked 4 and struck out 8. Game time was 2:51, and the attendance was listed as 50,000, but only about 30,000 stayed through the weather delay.
#11 Josh Beckett Vs A.J. Burnett and the Phillies at Citizen’s Bank Park in Philadelphia on Sunday, May 25th, 2014. The Dodgers scored single runs in the first and second innings to take a 2-0 lead. The second run scored on a homer by Justin Turner, his 2nd of the year. The Dodgers scored another run in the sixth, and then chased Burnett with a 3-run seventh. They had 11 hits and 4 walks off of him and 4 of the 6 runs were earned. Beckett gave up just 3 walks and struck out 6. He made 120 pitches. The time of the game was 2:37 and the attendance was 36,141.
#12 Clayton Kershaw Vs Jorge De La Rosa and the Rockies at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014. The only blemish in this game was an error by Hanley Ramirez in the seventh inning kept the game from being perfect, he was also helped by a great fielding play by rookie 3rd baseman, Miguel Rojas. The Dodgers scored 2 in the first inning. Gordon walked and stole second. Ramirez walked and both moved up when De La Rosa fired a pickoff throw into center field. Puig hit a sac-fly and Kemp singled in the second run. They broke the game open in the third scoring 5 runs, capped by Rojas’s double to left clearing the bases to make it 7-0. They chased De La Rosa in the fourth with their 8th run. Meanwhile Kershaw kept mowing down the Rockies hitters until Ramirez’s error in the seventh. With Tulo at the plate and pitching out of a stretch, Tulo hit a ball down the line to Rojas who made a one bounce throw to first just beating the runner and dug out by Adrian Gonzalez. Kershaw finished with 15 K’s, and made just 107 pitches. The game took 2:58 to play with 46,069 in attendance. Along with Beckett’s no-no in May, it was the first time the Dodgers had 2 pitchers toss no-hitters since Erskine and Maglie in 1956. 
# 13. Walker Buehler Vs Joey Lucchesi and the Padres at Estadio de Beisbol in Monterrey, Mexico on Friday, May 4th, 2018. Buehler got the start in what would be the Dodgers first even combined no-hitter. As part of MLB’s take the show on the road program they had started a few years earlier, LA played a three-game series with the Padres as the home team. The Dodgers scored a run in the first and 2 in the second to take a 3-0 lead. Buehler would pitch six innings allowing 3 walks and striking out 8 on 93 pitches. Tony Cingrani, Yimi Garcia and Adam Liberatore followed with scoreless innings with only Cingrani’s 2 walks keeping them from being perfect. The trio struck out 5 more Padres for a total of 13. The Dodgers scored their 4th run in 6th inniing. Chris Taylor and Kike homered in the second.
Those are the 13 no-hitters in Dodger history. They almost got # 14 and #15. Me, I just settle for the wins.
MiLB GAME SUMMARY REPORTS
OKC Comets 5 – Sacramento River Cats (San Francisco) 1
Last night it was Roki Sasaki with the strong start. In Wednesday’s game it was Andrew Heaney. He pitched the first 3.0 innings, allowed just 1 hit, and of the 10 batters he faced he recorded 8 strikeouts . In his first game back at OKC, Ben Casparius followed Heaney, retired all 5 batters he faced, 3 via a strikeout.
Ronan Kopp continued the strikeout flurry with striking out 5 of the 8 batters he faced. He did allow a hit, but no walks and runs.
Logan Boyer struck out 1 and walked 1 in his 1.0 IP.
Sacramento did score their sole run in the 9th off Paul Gervase. Combined, the pitchers, allowed just 1 run, struck out 17, walked 3 and allowed 3 hits.
OKC put up 3 in the 2nd. José Ramos singled. Nick Senzel reached on an error. Both runners scored on a Kody Hoese double (23). Hoese scored on an Esteury Ruiz triple (5).
They scored 2 more in the 4th. Hoese hit his 7th HR, a solo shot, and Ruiz hit his 2nd triple (6) of the night and scored on a balk.
- José Ramos – 3-4, 1 run, triple (3)
- Kody Hoese – 2-4, 2 runs, 1 RBI, double (23), HR (7)
- Esteury Ruiz – 2-4, 1 run, 1 RBI, 2 triples (6)
- Ryan Ward – 1-4, triple (6)
Tulsa Drillers 4 – Arkansas Travelers (Seattle) 3 – 13 innings
The Tulsa Drillers missed an opportunity Wednesday afternoon to cut their magic number to three in their quest to clinch a berth in the 2025 Texas League playoffs. The Drillers took an early one-run lead in the contest, but the Travelers answered with four straight runs of their own and eventually posted a 7-4 victory in the final afternoon game of the season.
With the defeat, the Drillers lead on second-place in the TL’s North Division, and a spot in the league’s playoffs, was trimmed to just 1.0 games over Wichita.
In Wednesday’s afternoon matchup, Kole Myers, batting in the leadoff spot, beat out an infield single to open the inning. Myers advanced to second on an errant pickoff throw and to third on a ground out, and scored on James Tibbs III’s RBI ground out.
The Travelers generated a run of their own in the top of the second to quickly tie the score at 1-1.
Arkansas broke the tie with an unearned run in the fifth inning, putting the Travs up 2-1.
Tulsa fell into a deeper hole in the sixth inning when Arkansas upped its lead to 4-1. Reliever Cam Day, making his Double-A debut, walked the first batter he faced and hit the second with a pitch. Day battled to get a ground out and a strikeout to nearly escape the jam, but Freddy Batista delivered a two-out single that brought home two.
The Drillers trimmed the deficit to one run in the bottom half of the sixth. Travs starting pitcher walked the first two batters of the inning, and Yeiner Fernandez followed with a run-scoring single.
Former Tulsa reliever Michael Hobbs replaced Morales and got a strikeout before Griffin Lockwood-Powell provided a sacrifice fly on a deep drive into the left field corner, pulling the Drillers to within 4-3.
Arkansas again delivered a quick response when Colt Emerson doubled against Brandon Neeck to open the top of the seventh inning. Right fielder Zyhir Hope bobbled the ball, allowing Emerson to slide safely into third on the error. Montes singled with one out to bring Emerson home and give the Travelers a two-run lead.
Windish’s third home run of the season leading off the ninth upped the margin to three runs before four walks forced home another run for the Travs.
The Drillers did not go down quietly in the bottom half of the ninth. With two outs, Sean McLain was hit with a pitch and he scored when Myers followed with a double into the left field corner. But that is all the Drillers would get.
With his first-inning RBI ground out, Tibbs III has driven in 28 runs in just 32 games with the Drillers.
In what was likely his final appearance of the regular season, Jackson Ferris worked five complete innings and allowed two runs, one earned, on three hits. He held the Travelers without a hit through the first four innings, but he was hampered by three walks and needed a total of 85 pitches to get through the five frames. Ferris will finish the regular season with a 10-7 record and a 3.86 ERA with 135 strikeouts in 126.0 total innings. The lefthander was outstanding in the second half of the year, going 7-2 with a 2.05 ERA.
Josue De Paula was 0-5 with 1 K, and Zyhir Hope was 0-4, with 1 K. AA is a difference maker. They are both getting exposed and should be better prepared for next year.
Dodgers turned two big innings into 9 runs. In the second inning an error by Kyle Karros opened the door. After Rojas singled, Pages doubled in Edman. Kike hit a sac fly scoring Rojas. Rordvedt who replaced Smith just prior to the start of the game grounded out to second. Ohtani singled, scoring Pages. He then stole second base and scored on a double by Betts. LA did not score again until the 8th inning when they loaded the bases with one out and Betts hit a grand slam homer to left field, his fourth hit of the night. Teo followed with a solo homer for the 9-0 final. Vesia came in to pitch in the 7th with the bases loaded and one out. Kopech had gotten one out but loaded the bases on walks. Vesia then struck out Moniak and Freeman to end the threat. Yates pitched a scoreless 8th.Padres and Giants lost, so did the Mets. LA now leads the West by 3.
Another superlative start from one of the 6 LAD starting pitchers. Blake Snell dominated for 6.0 innings. As he said after the game, just too many 3-2 counts. He said he would work on attacking more and try to stay away from 3 ball counts.
Vesia bailed out Kopech and looks to be in October form. Even Yates looked good.
Dodgers pitchers now have 7 straight games with double digit Ks.
Mookie and his 4 hits and 5 RBIs. He now has multi RBI games in 5 consecutive games. He now has 74 RBIs.
I am becoming a big Ben Rortvedt fan. He finds out he is catching a guy he has never caught before 15 minutes before game time, and handles Blake Snell very well. Teams do not like to use catchers late in the season who have not caught their pitchers, and yet Rortvedt has done that and handled the job easily. He is also hitting .308/.400/.308/.708. He reminds me of a LH hitting Austin Barnes, who I was very much a fan of. Handles the pitchers well, blocks balls, frames well, and has a weak arm. He is a backup catcher. He is not supposed to be a Cal Raleigh.
Great win. Now on to SF. Friday figures to be a good one…Justin Verlander vs Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Kershaw goes Saturday, and Glasnow. Logan Webb will probably pitch Sunday for SF.
Jeff, I too am becoming a Ben Rortvedt fan. And I’m not sure why. I just like the way he calls a game and hustles. He’s not going to strike fear in the hearts of pitchers based on his career stats, but he’s played well for us. He’s easy to root for.
And, he can bunt
It’s risky putting a large salary behind home plate as it usually means the catcher is a key part of a successful offense.
Assuming the first string catcher can play 140 innings, maybe it is best that the backup isn’t a team’s best trade piece.
Kopech still the same wild problem. Sasaki ready to pitch with the big club, so now what do they do with him?
Give him an inning every other day. Starting tomorrow.
Agree. Let’s see what Roki can do in a 1 inning or 1-2 inning situation, and let’s see it often over the next couple weeks.
3 great games against a pathetic team. But great just the same
my words exactly David……now it’s time to beat the bigger boys- like SF and Philly. We sure have the starting pitching to keep us in till the end….the big question is….do we have the closer to end it?
Correct. Now it’s time to get going! At a resurgent SF team, then home to philly. This is where things get interesting.
Don’t forget four more with the Giants in LA before the final road trip.
Monday With Murray.
Koufax, before he became Koufax.
https://gdrinnan.blogspot.com/2009/09/mondays-with-murray.html
For those who had the pleasure, and good fortune, to have read his daily column, a trip down memory lane. For the less fortunate out there, a sample of what you missed.
I have a book of Jim Murray columns that I bought at an antiques store in Healdsburg. I pull them out every so often to remind me what a great writer he was.
I read his column daily in the early/mid 60s. Made me consider becoming a sports writer. The around ‘65 I thought maybe I was good enough that he may be writing about me some day. Then I joined the Marine Corps in March of my senior year and that blew everything up. Still read Murray every chance I got though.
Think I’ll look for a copy of that book. I see there a couple. What’s the title of yours?
I also loved Jim Murray. A better sports writer I don’t think there ever was. For the longest time I didn’t know he had such poor eyesight. Even more incredible.
I loved Bud Furillo and his column in the Examiner.
Saw a story about Lopes being in critical condition.
Roberts had to be anxious to pull Yams beginning in the 6th, lol. He made the right decision.
Pads get the Rockies for 4 this weekend, at the Mets for 3 next week, and then off to Chicago to play the crappy, but playing better, White Sox.
I’ll assume SD wins at least 3-4 from Colorado, so we got some work to do!
Hello Bear, I was reading your comments on the OKC game. I noticed that they had 4 triples in the game. That’s quite an accomplishment. I assume that they have some real speedsters on the team.
That was me who wrote the MiLB Summaries. Esteury Ruiz who is a true speedster, had 2. Ryan Ward is a more than competent baserunner more than a speedster. He has had 6-7 triples each of the last three years. But he has hit his career SB mark with just 15. José Ramos is not a speedster. He had 2 triples last year and 0 in 2023. He has never had double digit SB.
Ruiz is a former AL SB champion. He has 58 SB this year. The real speedsters are in A+ and below.
Yep, it was definitely you.
For those pushing for ABS, attached is an interesting article. Particularly, what Walker Buehler thinks
https://sportsnaut.com/mlb/two-time-all-star-pitcher-walker-buehler-opposes-abs-system-in-baseball/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=topic/baseball
Dodgers released Matt Sauer. Gurriel will miss 8-10 months after UCL surgery.
They released him? I thought it was illegal to release a major leaguer. He’s due any day now, right?
Just want to say how impressed I am watching the Philadelphia Phillies play…….like today…down 4-0 after one and they go on to win 6-4 with their new closer, JDuran pitching only 11 pitches to get 3 Ks. Wow….wouldnt it be nice to have him instead of Scott, Yates, and or Kopech?
Unlike our team, they, like San Diego, also improved greatly at the TDL. Oh well….maybe we can fool them in the playoffs. I would put them as the top team to beat because they are very well balanced with hitting and pitching. And pitching includes the bullpen. I’m done. -TM
Having Edman, Kiké Hernández, and Hyeseong Kim back should give the Dodgers every excuse to move Conforto to the bench permanently, if not dump him entirely, right?
Nope. Dave Roberts said he still intends to start Conforto against righties.
But Conforto is a reverse splits guy — batting .180 with a .591 OPS against righties, and .254 with a .770 OPS against lefties this season.
Dodgers fans would much prefer if Conforto wasn’t on the Dodgers’ roster at all, but if they’re so set on keeping him, why on earth would they insist on batting him in situations where he’s provably worse?? Insanity!
Make it make sense.
Nobody can make this make sense.
I can.
He’s due. He’s going to deliver any day now.
Wait, that sounds like his wife, who I don’t believe is pregnant.
Never mind.
By the way, his wife’s name is Cabernet. Cabernet Burns, which sounds like a shame. I like Cabernet. Used to anyway. Sorry to hear what happened to it.
If Conforto starts tonight i may down a bottle of cabernet
Verlander is a RHP so I would expect to see Conforto in the lineup. Don’t agree with it, but am expecting it.
Trout hit his 399th last night in the Angels extra inning loss.
The first few years of Trout’s career I thought he was the second coming of Willie Mays. Offensively anyway. He led the league in OPS 4 times before the age of 28. Even Mays didn’t do that. Led the league in WAR 5 times before the age of 25. Even Babe Ruth didn’t do that. Then? Derailed by injuries. Still good of course, but not the same player after 28. Bummer.
yes, TennisMenace, JDuran of the Phillies is something else. He sits at 102 with movement and a Snappy breaking ball from hell. He was unhittable yesterday. The Phillies look like the team to beat to me with due respect to the Brewers.
Even after losing Wheeler, their pitching looks good. Luzardo gave up a 4 spot in the 1st yesterday to the Mets. No problem. The Phillies shut em down from there to win 6-4, giving up only 5 hits. Even with Turner and Bohm on the IL, they still hit. I don’t know Otto Kemp from Auto Zone but he had a dinger and double.
Can anyone offer an explanation as to what Conforto has on the Dodger brass? Compromising photos? I truly don’t get it. Do they think he’s going to suddenly break out after a pitiful season with questionable defense too.
His reverse splits make sticking with him even more weird.
With players back from the IL, I like Miggy Ro at 2nd with Kim in the conversation, Teo in left, Edman in center and Pages in right with Muncy at 3rd. I like that lineup a lot.
Mets sent Kodai Senga to AAA.
This is why you do not look at the back of baseball cards when evaluating a backup catcher:
So how is the assembled LADC readership going to react if, when Rushing is ready to come back, they send him to OKC instead to play everyday and keep Rortvedt.
I, for one, would not be totally upset if that happens.
To me, it certainly would not be as egregious as announcing that Conforto will get playing time against RHP when his splits are better against LHP this year.
I do not know what they are going to do. Rushing caught 9 innings last night and went 1-4 including a double and 2 Ks. Rortvedt does not have any options left. It will get interesting.
Meanwhile, I find Smith’s not starting again tonight a bit ominous. They may just fake it for the next few days and then have Rushing and Rortvedt as the catching duo for the rest of the season. Hopefully, Will would be available for the post season if he’s forced to the IL again in the next few days.
Pretty cool Jeff. Thanks
Tarik Skubal was forced to leave the Tiger’s game tonight in the 4th inning. He grabbed his left side after throwing a pitch. Good news, it isn’t his arm. But bad news if it’s an oblique.
Walker Buehler started for the Phillies tonight against KC and went 5 innings with 1 earned run. Maybe he’s getting ready to round into post season form, just like last year.
Looks like we’re back to our anemic offense. Making Verlander look like Cy Young does not inspire confidence.
Verlander is a frippen Hall of Famer, he knows how to pitch. And he has been excellent his last several starts, part of the reason the Giants are back in the playoff picture. Give the guy some credit.
Conforto ties the game with a dead central homer. Rortvedt doubles. Ohtani walks and Betts swings at the first frippen pitch he sees for an easy fly out. Pitiful situational hitting by Mookie.
Got him yesssss.
an OFer throwing out a runner at home is my favorite play in baseball
Man Pages has a gun!
How many more years of Scott do we have to watch? One fast ball and one home run. Wow! And the only pitching staff we can hit are the Rockies! Unless our starters can throw nine inning shutouts, we’re in trouble. What a shame!
Three. And pitchers change from year to year, just look at Scott and Yates, both were lights out last year.
Ive said it before, I’ll say it again, Tanner Scott sucks. He is an atrocious pitcher. Maybe he’ll be ok next year, but I wouldn’t count on it. How many games does he have to blow before the Dodgers stop using him?
If I were management I would have released him and ate the salary weeks ago.
And you would be an idiot for doing so. Management does not make decisions like that concerning that much money, that is up to ownership. And releasing him and eating all that money is just dumb. Never would have been in that situation had they had some offense. And don’t forget, Betts did the same thing in the 10th that the Giants did in the 9th, fly out into a double play? Bad baseball.
The offense not getting the job done and Scott being a terrible reliever are two separate things.
Neither excuses the other. And neither has anything to do with the other.
Bullshit. It is a team game; each player has to do his part. Had the offense been better, Scott might never have made it into the game. Scott is not a terrible reliever. His track record says so. You can’t blame all of the issues on just one guy. Yates was getting hammered by fans until he had a good game. Scott got a save just the other day. With the bases loaded and one out, a fly out would have won that game for the Giants.
So your solution is to what, continue to use him and allow him to keep blowing games?
You know what is idiotic? Continuing to use a bad pitcher over and over while he blows important games in the middle of a playoff race when the club is only 2.5 games up. If they refuse to release him then he should be demoted to mop-up. No more excuses.
It would be different if they had a 10 game lead. The Dodgers can afford to eat the salary Bear, they have plenty of money. There is no defense for this.
What would be idiotic is you running the Dodgers. They could afford it yes, but that is bad business. Who else are they going to use? The pen has been iffy all year. You do not get rid of a guy who has that large of a contract without some sort of return. So, he is having a bad year, the whole team has been having a bad year. Yes, keep using the guy, he probably feels worse than anyone else on the team. It’s easy for you to say cut him and eat 56 million dollars. It’s not your money. The guy still has 21 saves. Yes, he has blown 9 of the 23 blown saves the team has. There are 24 pitchers in the majors with 6 or more blown saves. I think they believe that this year is an anomaly for Scott. Doubtful they have even considered releasing him. They are only 2.5 games up because they played lousy for more than two months.
Why are you making excuses for him? Sure I feel bad for him too, but do you want to win?
Ive already given you at least one example of an MLB team releasing a player with 30 million dollars remaining on his salary. The Dodgers just this year released Taylor and Barnes and Taylor had at least 13 million dollars left on his contract. Did they get a return on that money lost? Players are released all the time, even ones with high salaries, and big contracts. This is thr big leagues, not little league. Performance matters here.
Now you are talking about business and returns? They should consider releasing him.
Who else are they going to use? Uh, anyone? Kopech, Vesia, wrobleski, they had an entire bullpen fully rested. Even Yates would have been a better choice than him.
Please stop making excuses for bad pitching. You certainly don’t make excuses pointing out the offense. Like I said before, if they want to keep him on the roster I wouldn’t complain, just stop using him in high leverage innings. Mop-up only, or cut him loose and cut their losses.
Simple Scott. I am a Dodger fan, winning and losing is not on me. He is a Dodger, and he has been good more than he has been bad. I don’t remember you giving me any examples of a team releasing a player owed 30 million. I remember giving you the only Dodger ever released when owed a substantial amount, Carl Crawford. But we are not talking 30 million, we are talking 56, and a player in the first year of a four-year deal. Your only solution is release him? And replace him with who? It is far too late in the season to add an accomplished closer. Scott will not be released, the team no doubt has not even considered that option. Roberts no doubt will give him a soft-landing spot his next time out, but for as long as I have watched baseball, the one thing I have learned is that a player can be awful for a stretch and then a light will go on, or a minor adjustment, and he is himself again. And don’t tell me who to defend and what to say. My opinion is that the man is a part of the team and releasing him is a stupid move. I would appreciate it if you were not so damned negative all the time either. You suggested Kopech, who the other night could not find home plate with both hands and a search warrant. Vesia is just off of the IL. He will get his chances.
Jose Abreu, I can link you to it if you like. Was owed 30 million when Houston released him in 2024.
Not sure when T.Scott was ever good with the Dodgers? I guess you do not believe in cutting anyone from the team. I get it, this is like the little leagues, A reliever can blow 9, 10 games (including back to back games in the Baltimore series), a left fielder can hit below .200 all year, with poor defense, and just keep playing them. According to you.
I disagree, and believe those players who do not perform for an entire season Like Scott, Conforto etc. should not be given opportunities to fail in the postseason.
I give a shit less what Houston did. It is not relevant to what the Dodgers do. You are not the one making the decisions. They decided to keep these players. Not my problem, there are much more pressing things happening the world than the Dodgers playing baseball, it is a game, not life. You cannot compare Scott with Abreu. Abreu was 37 years old and played just 35 games that year, he was hitting just .124 when he was cut loose. Yeah, he was owed a little over 30 million, but Scott is just 30, coming off of three years as an excellent reliever. No comparison.
Get used to it. Both Scott and Conforto will be on post season roster
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