Dodger News & Notes

Great game. I did not see the game, I was with a friend in the hospital and I did not have time to use my cell phone, fortunately, he is well and will improve. I’m going to watch the replay and enjoy the game, from the comfort of knowing the result. congratulations Dodgers fun guys. come on count the giants

Glad we didn’t do to the 10th inning…..I didn’t want to see Jansen pitching a 2nd inning. And I really didn’t want to throw out any of the kids.

Well, I can finally breathe again. What a game. Dodger pitchers did not have one clean inning the entire game. And as bad as the Dodger have been with runners in scoring position, the Cardinals tonight were terrible. 0-12. The bullpen gave up 2 hits and no runs and the Cards only run scored on a wild pitch which was set up by a Seager error. Dodgers hit 2 homers and win the game. Pujols scared everyone with that line drive. But, as important as Taylor’s at bat was, he would not have even come up if Bellinger had not drawn his second walk. 2 walks a single, 2 stolen bases and a K. And he did not have a single put out in CF tonight. Taylor made a great sliding catch, and Mookie ran into that low wall in foul territory and made a great catch. Just a total team effort. Only 2 players left on the bench at the end of the game, McKInstry and Barnes. Vesia, Bickford, Gonsolin and Urias were left in the pen. I thought Dave made the right move pulling Scherzer, but I feared for his life.

I like to comment on the games I watched. Micro not Macro. If I think Dave Roberts did something stupid like pulling Hill against Boston I will say so. If I think he was dumb playing McKinney two games in a row I will say so. If he does something well I will say so. The former might set Mark off on ANOTHER piece on how Dave Roberts is great but blogs comments tend to be immediate full of emotions and more micro than macro.

I will say this. Dave Roberts had big brass balls to go out there and pull Scherzer. Kudos to Doc tonight.

What a freaking game. Had to watch the replay about 6 times and it was wonderful each time. I so badly wan’t to beat the Giants and their BS penchant for always getting the break during the season. From a non-called check swing third strike to some BS check swing opposite field base hit from rule 5 “castoff.”

Lets show them who is the better team and lets get this done.

And which pitcher got the win? That’s right Kenley did!

The Fant4stic four: Kelly, Treinen, Knebel and Jansen are great, they are a nightmare for opposing lineups, the Dodgers have four closers in a row. CT3 writes his name in the history of the Dodgers with gold letters and what game Belli had, I’m so glad that he had that great game !!!

Trust me, somewhere Ned Colleti has a glass of wine and is feeling pretty damn good right now, the ghosts of the Cardinals are finally gone.

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Where’s that Cards ars#hole now?

Keyboard Warrior already in bed, up early for school in the morning.

Great performance from the BP

To get any further we’re gonna need Max to get his Mojo back quickly.

Great win – and good on CT3

All my bitching and complaining throughout the season was all about this game. I wanted the Dodgers to avoid a one game win or go home. This game almost went the wrong way. Fortunately the Dodgers won.

My blood pressure is F’d! What a suspenseful game. I felt very uncomfortable those last couple of innings. Doc pulled all the right strings with the bullpen and it delivered. Best bullpen in MLB! Wow, Belli and CT3 came up pretty big.

I’m glad I didn’t look at the comments during the game. SMH.

Well if the Dodgers can now win the World Series CT3 deserves a big paycheck because he made it possible. A beautiful walkoff.

YEE -HAW!!!

My blood pressure is a little better now

I’m going to the emergency room now to get my butt hole turned right side out again

Me sooo happy

Woooooooooooo! CT3 always shows up for the postseason.

Book em Dano. Bring on the Giants.

Who? CT3! That’s who!!!

Belli got on 3 times tonight

Burn Lux and Tio swinging on a 3-0 count. Not a fan of that at all.

Here comes Bellinger’s reemergence!

Bellinger!

Now walk it off so we can kick the Giants butts!

The entire season comes down to the fact that the Dodger offense is just so darn inconsistent! That’s been our weak spot all season long!

Good pitching stops good hitting. There has been outstanding pitching by both teams tonight.

The entire season is most likely going to come down to Kenley pitching in the 9th. Ponder that.

Not a good time for the “nothing” offense to show up!

Exciting game!

I’m callingSeager leading off the 8th

Who’s gonna hot the homer to win it?

Belli tried!

I may have made a slight miscalculation predicting an 8-3 score.

Arrenado had a pitch and just missed it.

Phew

really good team (106 wins). Problem all year, lob!!

Another out chasing a bad pitch. I wish Pollock just once would show up for the postseason.

Show us your offense, Will!

I can breath now. Graterol did his job and I’m happy for him and Doc. Lets score runs……………..

Graterol says “take that doubters”!!!!!! “I’m playoff ready”

Cannot believe Doc is going with Graterol, that is a move I don’t think he should make. Go with Treinen and if need be go with Julio in the 7th and 8th. No tomorrow if you don’t win and Graterol has been garbage lately. Bickford might be a better option also.

The Bazooka scares me. He’s on or off!

Do we really want to bring in Graterol?

Another Bellinger K…on a fastball too. Hmmm

Machine Gun Kelley. There I said it!

No matter what happens with the change to Joe Kelly, it is the right move. Max had 92 pitches through 4.1 innings pitched and his command was horrible all night. Now can Joe get it done…..we shall see.

I don’t care what the result is. That is the right move in taking out Scherzer.

Well, that answers your question. Scherzer won’t be happy about this. 94 pitches for 13 outs? He didn’t have it tonight, but he battled.

Scherzer has nothing.

Man I love Turner, I’d kiss him right on the lips if he would let me

Wow…………TT swung at ball four on that DP. Oh well lets get’ em next inning

Matt Beaty has acquitted himself very well… so far!

Well, at least we can watch the game without checking on what the GIANTS are doing

TBS with no K zone box. Is that the norm or because Joe West is umping?

Way to battle Max. You’re going to come around I can feel it

I was going to post some more negative shit. But I thought hell no think positive

Gotta feeling we will certainly see Julio tonight

Scherzer ain’t right, again.

TOTAL CONFIDENCE Dodgers will outscore RedBirds .it’s gonna take a lot more than Cardinal smallball to beat Mighty Dodgers.

Decision to go offense over defense has reared its ugly head with Smith’s poor pitch blocking. Lets hope he makes up for that with the bat.

Upside: The Dodgers are scalding the ball.

I hate seeing a catcher on one knee. Too hard to get over and block the damn ball put us in the fucking hole early. Defense matters in this game

I hope Smith can make it up at the plate

Pardon my French I need to go take a blood pressure pill, And down it with a couple of beers

1 free run. They can’t do that stuff

Smith not blocking ball correctly. E-6. Defense.

Get Barnes in there!

What is Yasmani doing in there?

Greetings fellow fans,

I Just want to thank everyone here for graciously accepting me and making me part of your DodgerTalk family.

I know I probably upset a few at first when I was promoting a “trade Cody” agenda, but I think even those who were most opposed to that agenda eventually accepted me as a fellow passionate Dodgers brother.

Even if we lose today, I still plan on buzzing in to stay abreast with current events (like the latest on Trevor Bauer) so I’m not writing this as my goodbye letter.

Here’s hoping we have more games after today.

TM

If the Dodgers need more than 10 pitchers they are screwed!

Found on a different site:

“Max Scherzer’s history versus Cardinals lineup

Edman: 4-11, 2B, HR, 4 K

Goldschmidt: 6-35, BB, 18 K

O’Neill: 0-3, 2 K

Arenado: 2-10, BB, 5 K

Carlson: 0-7, 4 K

Molina: 1-20, 2B, 4 K

Sosa: 1-3, K

Bader: 2-10, 2B, 4 K

That’s a combined 16-for-99, good for a .162 AVG.

— Daniel Preciado (@DanJPreciado) October 6, 2021”

Only one lefthander in the pen though we probably will see Julio somewhere during this game. Would not surprise me Doc using him like last postseason in this game.

Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Pollock

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Belly

Scherzer

Padres officially fire Tingler.

For those of you Doc haters out there, he is now available to replace Roberts.

All I have to say about tonight’s game:

Here is the Dodger Arizona Fall League roster:

Dodgers (Glendale): Bobby Miller, RHP (No. 4/MLB No. 78); Landon Knack, RHP (No. 8); Kody Hoese, 3B (No. 13); Jacob Amaya, SS (No. 14); James Outman, OF (No. 27); Jeff Belge, LHP; Kyle Hurt, RHP

The Dodgers are sending their top two 2020 Draft Picks to Glendale, and both Miller (2.40 ERA, 70/13 K/BB in 56 1/3 innings) and Knack (3.18 ERA, 82/8 K/BB in 62 1/3 frames) are coming off strong pro debuts between High-A and Double-A. Hoese and Amaya are two of the better position prospects in the system but had rough seasons in Double-A.

The league begins play on October 13

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Would Beuhler not have been handy in an extra innings situation?

Her job’s tables!

Cardinals roster for today’s game posted on MLBTR. Dodgers is not out yet. No gloom and doom for me today. As much as most fans are sweating the Cardinals Wainwright, Cardinal fans are saying oh no, the MAXINATOR is pitching in his home park with 50,000 plus California nut jobs cheering for him!!!!! We are toast!

Controversial umpire Hernandez part of Giants NLDS crew

https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/giants/controversial-umpire-angel-hernandez-part-giants-nlds-crew?amp

If Dodgers win tonight, this is good or bad?

I’ll say this now; the rules about the baseball Wildcards are an insult to fans. They should be to players and managers, too. We all know that professional sports exist to make money for already rich owners. Yes, some want to compete and win, but the money is always paramount, and it may be to the players as well. No one begrudges them wanting to make money, but the fans are not a guaranteed payment machine who will show up and root no matter what ridiculous rules the owners and commissioner put in to try to speed up the money wheel.

The Dodgers won 106 games this year, the Cardinals won 90 in a weaker division. Why does baseball play 162 games in a season? So that the team which won 90 gets to have a one-game playoff with the team which won 106? The extra wildcard team was added several years ago. Its only purpose was to keep more teams eligible for the playoffs, and thus entice more fans to stay interested. That makes sense from the owners’ and commissioner’s interests. But what about some integrity in the game? This is a gimmick only designed to lure in fans.

Now they are talking about expanded playoffs. Again, a carnival gimmick; step right up, your team will make the playoffs, too! It makes a mockery of playing 162 games, going through that long schedule, hoping your team wins this or that game. It really doesn’t matter one bit whether the Dodgers won 106 games or 91 games,, both would have gotten them exactly the same thing, a one-game home playoff with the other wildcard team, and if they lose, there goes the entire season.

How about a rule that if you are trailing in a game by five runs in the ninth inning, you get to start that inning with the bases loaded? That will keep people from turning it off! Or let all the teams in the playoffs, the regular season is just for seeding. Actually, that’s about what they do in the NBA, where .500 teams or less sometimes get in. They lose, because it is unlikely for a weaker team to beat a better one in a best of seven in basketball. Much less unlikely in baseball. And in a one-game playoff? We all know that any team can win one game. Spin the roulette wheel!

I think that it is insulting to fans who are encouraged to go to many games, even buy season tickets, to root for their team. They actually might as well only follow the playoffs. The people who run baseball will do what they want. I know that 2020 was a losing proposition. But now they are considering gimmick after gimmick, as if this is some kind of game show that is trying to stay on the air. Electronic umpires! DH in both leagues! Runner on second base in extra innings! More playoff teams! Change the mound again! An extra run for any homer hit in the eighth inning or later! Well not that last one–yet– but they’re busily working on new ideas to try to artificially increase short-term interest.

They certainly don’t care if I watch or not, but they might ultimately care if season-long fan interest eventually drops off because the game has been cheapened. For my part, I will not watch very much, if at all, of the playoffs, if the Dodgers lose to the Cardinals. I have no interest in watching the Cards play the Giants, or the Braves play the Brewers. Actually, I used to always have some interest in following the short playoffs, the league championship series, and the World Series. Because they featured the very best teams which had earned their way to the elite playoffs. Now we’ve got ten teams in the playoffs, more to come. We’ve got a wildcard game where one team has won 106 games, and one has won 90. I am sure that if the Dodgers lose, there will be fewer Dodgers fans who closely follow next year’s regular season.

Roger Angell was a great and literate baseball writer, and I read all of his books, which I think were compilations of the essays he had written during each season.. I remember him writing after the 1968 season, that the next season, the one which was to split the leagues into divisions, was going to change the game forever. He noted that the networks, which were then virtually running sports, wanted playoffs, “big games,” to get the ratings up. So instead of two leagues ,and one world series, we were going to have two divisions in each league. And he foresaw what was going to happen to the great game of baseball. Bob Costas wrote similar things about expanded playoffs. Both of them loved the game, and wanted a certain amount of inherent “purity” to remain. The classic pennant races of the past would essentially gone, because the extended playoffs would surmount them.

Then of course we got three divisions in each league. Yes, expansion dictated some splitting of the leagues, but then they needed four teams in each league’s playoffs, so they had to toss in a wildcard to get to the fourth. Then they added one more wildcard team in each league. More to come. Again,, it is their sport, they own it, they make hundreds of millions from it, and to whatever extent, the players and managers and coaches and umpires share in it.. But there should be a place for the fans, particularly the loyal season-long fans, not just those casual fans who show up to watch playoff games, in those considerations. And cheapened playoffs, and demeaning the results of a long regular season, treats the fans like suckers at the entrance to a carnival, in my view.

I would go with Belli in CF and eihter Beatty or Albert at 1b.

Lets hope Max has his A game with him when he takes the mound. Will have to watch it on tape due to the time difference to Central Europe time, game will not start before 2 am.

Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I have said many times, the playoffs are a crapshoot. The Dodgers and Cardinals are sending their best crapshooters out to the mound. Sometimes it works, and sometimes, like last night for the Yankees, it blows up in your face. They are home, in Dodger Stadium where they have won more games than any other team in the majors this season. 58-23. The Cardinals were 45-36 on the road and are 1-2 at Dodger Stadium this season. It will be a sell out, and the crowd is going to be loud. The sun will play a factor in the outfield, so at the start my 3 best outfielders are going to be playing. That means no Lux in CF. Why would Roberts take a chance playing McKinney, who at this point is not even on the roster, when he has not been in a game for almost a month? Beaty is a better choice. Red Sox went with their best defensive team last night. I think LA will do the same. Oh, one other thing. If the Dodgers win tonight, it will give home teams a .500 percentage in win or go home games. Right now they are one game below .500. As for Bauer, his fate is not in the Dodgers hands and I think they should act accordingly. This offseason there will be a lot of questions to be answered. AF is going to have a very busy winter.

>>> Munchausens by proxy is a disorder that is shocking and more prevelant than you might think. People have stabbed, shot themselves and drank poison to get others in trouble. Never underestimate the power of “crazy.” <<<

Hmmm….. I said very similar within the last few weeks, but without mentioning the syndrome. I basically said that people hurt themselves all the time for money & to get people in trouble. I was called out by someone who maintained that it was a rare thing for that to happen & was lambasted & told to prove it. When I did it was not "proof enough".

cheers

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Hey, I won’t weigh in on Doc speak on injuries. I really have no idea.

But according to Clayton Kershaw his issue is the disappointment of missing the playoffs, this team is special, his future will take care of itself and no he didn’t hold onto the ball as an indication that this was the last game he will pitch, said he wasn’t aware that he had it, more or less caught up in the moment and his disappointment.

What I will conclude is despite all the injuries to key players, the loss of Dustin May, the Trevor Bauer curse, and the inability to win extra inning games in the first half, the Dodgers somehow managed to win 106 games. If the Dodgers win 106 in 2022, they win the NL West title.

So here we are, one game, advance or go home. If Max Scherzer is on his game and the Dodgers don’t chase, I think they win tonight. As hot as the Cardinals were during their streak, the Dodgers have the best record in baseball since July 31.

Tomorrow this site will be talking about the upcoming series with the Giants or what lies in the future. Will Corey Seager be back, will Kershaw, Jansen and Scherzer return? What lies ahead for Cody Bellinger? Funny, but the LA newspapers are already looking ahead, while also focusing on the Cards.

Not to quibble, but I think you misuse Munchausen syndrome by proxy in this case.

You’re making the case that she punched herself in the face and the vagina to manufacture the physical evidence. I suppose that’s possible. I take the Occam’s Razor approach.

I think we may not ever get a definitive answer. The DA could fail to prosecute simply because they think their case may not be winnable, not because there is “smoking gun” evidence that exonerates him.

I skimmed the Dylan Hernandez article and the comment section. Journalism is just broken. There is just a complete inability to analyze a story dispassionately and report objectively. It is more about the Who rather than the Why – and it serves a larger agenda. There is just such a visceral, unhinged and over-the-top hatred of the who, that articles wind up being temper tantrums railing against the who, and everything the object of their hatred does is simply evidence to reinforce their narrative – and then you have the ready consumers of outrage who click on the links because it reinforces their biases, and outrage is addicting. We had four years of this with Trump. That Facebook whistleblower testified about algorithms that feed that dopamine outrage. The MSM has already been doing this in plain view.

I tuned in to the Bauer thing for about 30 seconds. It was stupid – Bauer and his bros sitting there in chairs saying nothing in particular.

I was surprised to see Bauer’s video pop up yesterday. It was about 37 seconds of a nothingburger. He basically said he one judge already ruled in his favor in one case and that there’s still another case outstanding and that he can’t talk about it.

Doc seemed a little undecided about Lux in center, but said he would probably play some out there, but not necessarily start. His cryptic hints sure seems like he’s leaning towards Belli in center and Beaty at 1B. I was surprised that he mentioned the possibility of McKinney at 1B.

It sounds like he’s planning an all hands on deck game with multiple changes based on matchups.

Doc mentioned that Max dislocated his elbow. Also no UCL damage.

I find it ironic at a manager referred to as “Doc” would be so bad at giving updates on the medical information for his players.

If Clayton Kershaw was this bad and this injured this year, but doesn’t need surgery, would you really want to bring him back next year? I guess one plan would be to take a spot in the rotation while we’re waiting for May to come back?

I sure hope you’re right about Belli. Maybe he can have a big postseason to put that horrible regular season to bed.

I’ll go out on a limb and say that I think Beaty is going to have another big game tonight filling in for Muncy and keep it going until Mad Max comes back.

11 short hours to game time. Go Blue!

Hopefully you’re right and dodgers score 8 runs, but realistically I’d settle with 3 runs …

Bellinger hero? I will be happy if he is not strike out 3 times!

(Sorry for my bad english)