If the season was over today, the Dodgers would have to play in the Wild Card series against the Mets. LA is currently the #3 seed, and the Mets are #6. San Diego would have to travel to Chicago to play the Cubs who are currently the #4 seed. The winner of that series would have to play the Brewers in the NLDS. The Mets-Dodgers winner would have to play Philadelphia. The Dodgers have a series with the Phillies starting on Monday, the 15th. They are 1-2 against them so far this year. They lost the season series to the Mets, 3-4. LA is also not very good on the road, 34-38, very un-Dodger like. They were 2-2 against the Mets in Dodger Stadium.
The road to the World Series is not as smooth as the team might like. What they need is an extended winning streak. Finishing off a sweep of the Rockies would be a good start, but they have to play better baseball against the Giants in San Francisco this weekend. The Giants are playing for their playoff lives. They are 7-3 over their last 10 picking up 3 games on the Dodgers and the Padres who went 4-6. SF is now 7.5 games back of LA, and just 2.5 games out of the Wild Card. They are chasing the Mets. Little chance they catch San Diego since they are 5.5 games back of the Padres, so their incentive to beat LA is right there for all to see. So far, LA is 4-2 against SF this year. They are 2-1 against them in LA and 2-1 against them in SF.
One thing that is happening is that the Wild Card is very muddled right now. The Mets are in the middle of a slump. They have lost six in a row, and their schedule is not being kind to them. They are 3-7 over their last 10 games and their lead in the Wild Card race is down to just 2 over the Reds and Giants, and the D-Backs are making a push too, just 3.5 back. LA’s series with them will be important.
Of course, as we all know, a team’s fortunes can change just like that. The Dodgers are getting excellent starting pitching, with Max, Tommy and Kim all back now, the offense should be better. The one worry is the lingering soreness in Smith’s right hand. It caused him to miss Wednesday night’s game. I honestly believe LA would not have too much trouble beating the Met since the series would be played at Dodger Stadium where they are a much better team.
If they defeat the Mets, they then have a 5 game LDS against the Phillies. The Phillies are excellent at home, 26 games over .500. They are also 2-1 against the Dodgers so far this year. The Phillies have a very good pitching staff. They now also have a lock-down closer in Duran. LA has a slight advantage power wise, but the Phillies have some very good hitters of their own and Schwarber leads the NL in homers, 50 and RBI’s, 123. They also steal more bases than the Dodgers do. LA is going to have to play flawless baseball to win a series with the Phillies.
MiLB GAME SUMMARY REPORTS
OKC Comets 5 – Sacramento River Cats (San Francisco) 1
Noah Miller and Ryan Ward each hit three-run home runs to guide the Oklahoma City Comets to an 8-2 win against the Sacramento River Cats Friday night.
Noah Miller with a season-high RBI No.4️⃣ on the night! pic.twitter.com/VWA7oKQ9P7
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106.5 off the bat. 415ft. Ryan Ward hits homer No. 33 👊 pic.twitter.com/9UHOqVPwId
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The River Cats took the first lead of the night in the second inning on a two-run home run by Tyler Fitzgerald.
The Comets answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning to take the lead for good on a three-run homer by Miller out to left field.
The Comets added five runs in the fifth inning. Ward connected on a three-run home run out to right field for a 6-2 lead. CJ Alexander and Miller went on to hit RBI singles later in the inning for an 8-2 OKC advantage.
Comets pitchers Landon Knack, Garrett McDaniels, and Kyle Hurt held the River Cats scoreless over the final seven innings and scoreless in eight of nine innings overall. Knack started and completed 6.0 innings. He allowed the two-run HR, one unearned run. He gave up 5 hits, walked just 1 and struck out 6. McDaniels pitched a perfect 7th with 2 Ks. Hurt pitched 2 scoreless innings allowing 4 hits, and zero BB. He struck out 2.
Ryan Ward hit his league-leading 33rd home run of the season — tying his 2024 total with the Comets and tying for the third-most home runs in a single season by a Comets player during the Bricktown era (since 1998). The total is also tied for the most homers by a player in the Minors this season…Ward went 1-for-3 with a walk and three RBI to boost his Minor League-leading RBI total to 118 this season for the most RBI in a single season by a PCL player since 2010 when Salt Lake’s Mark Trumbo had 122 RBI.
Ryan Ward claims another record as he now owns the Bricktown era single season RBI record❗️ pic.twitter.com/0dDkwbtB8J
— Oklahoma City Comets (@OKC_comets) August 20, 2025
Dalton Rushing continued a Major League Rehab Assignment and appeared in a second straight game with the Comets, drawing three walks and going 0-for-1 with a run scored as the designated hitter.
- Kody Hoese – 2-4, 2 runs, 2 doubles (25)
- Justin Dean – 2-3, 1 BB, 1 run
- Noah Miller – 2-4, 1 run, 4 RBI, HR (4)
- Ryan Ward – 1-3, 1 BB, 1 run, 3 RBI, HR (33)
- Alex Freeland – double (27)
Tulsa Drillers 7 – Arkansas Travelers (Seattle) 1
Tulsa started fast with 5 in the first. Kole Myers and Zach Ehrhard singled to lead off the inning. With one out, Chris Newell hit a ground ball to 2nd, but the throw was late to home was late. Yeiner Fernandez reached on an error, allowing a 2nd run to score. That was followed with back to back BB to force in a 3rd run. With the bases still loaded, Taylor Young singled to plate 2 more.
A walk and 2 singles led to a Travelers run off started Wyatt Crowell in the 4th. The Drillers got it back in the bottom of the inning with an Ehrhard single and James Tibbs III triple (2).
Tibbs III doubles in the 7th, moved to 3rd on a passed ball, and scored on a Griffin Lockwood-Powell single.
The Drillers held Arkansas in check with two pitchers. Crowell completed 5.0 IP allowing the one run on 3 hits, 2 BB, and 5 K. Chris Campos followed Crowell and finished the final 4.0 innings in scoreless fashion. He allowed 3 hits, but no BB, and registered 3 K.
The win lowered Tulsa’s magic number to two as Wichita also won, defeating Corpus Christi 8-3 to remain on the Drillers’ heels. The Drillers need a combination wins and Wichita losses that totals two to claim the final playoff berth. There are two games remaining in the regular season.
- Zach Ehrhard – 2-4, 2 runs
- James Tibbs III – 2-4, 1 run, 1 RBI, double (4), triple (2)
- Taylor Young – 2-4, 2 RBI
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Ugly loss, with really bad situational hitting. Especially late in the game. Conforto with his 11th homer, and Rortvedt had a double off of the wall. After getting out of a 9th inning jam with a huge fly ball to Pages, Pages to Rortvedt DP, they had the same thing happen to them when with Rortvedt on second as the free runner, they walked Ohtani and Betts hit a fly out to right with the right fielder throwing Rortvedt out at third. Then the 10th inning fell apart on them with Scott giving up a grand slam to Bailey. Never would have been in that position except Mookie made an error that put 2 on and no one out. Treinen and Scott did not get the job done. Wasted a 1-hitter by Yoshi. Padres lost to the Rockies, so they did not lose any ground. Magic number to clinch the West is 13. Verlander pitched a helluva game too. Kersh Vs Webb tomorrow.
Unless we play the Rockies in October, our starters will have pitch shutouts!
I don’t think things are that bad. But we keep getting players hurt who are important to the offense. Max got hit in the hand tonight, and Smith is still out.