Right Back In!

Gavin dropped a ball that was in his glove. He got to it.

He almost had it.

It likely had to do with the sun.

Otherwise, Lux has looked fine there.

You don’t switch two players.

Lux is OK.

No need to panic!

Tonight’s 8pm ET Lineup:

RF Mookie Betts R

SS Corey Seager L

2B Trea Turner R

C Will Smith R

3B J. Turner R

CF Gavin Lux L

1B C. Bellinger L

LF Chris Taylor R

P Julio Urias L

Memo to Julio….stay away from the 3-2 FB away.

Is it my imagination, or did it seem that Lux hit that ball harder than both the Braves’ HR’s?

Gotta hit with ’em.

Urias is off tonight get him out of there.

PH for Julio. He’s done. Will JT and TT show up tonight? Julio not able to equal last year’s post season magic this year and the baseball gods will always have the ball find the inexperienced “out of place” player. Lux ain’t no CF right now and it’s evident.

What they need to do, and have not been doing at all, is string together a bunch of hits,

Atlanta bullpen working on a perfect game.

Can’t win if ya don’t score, can’t score if ya don’t hit.

In the old days they’d never let somebody get that comfortable at the plate. Go ahead and try to dig in against Gibson or Drysdale. Rosario just looks too comfortable in there

Of course that has nothing to do with our poor hitting, it just irks the shit out of me

Why is Urías still in there Robert’s? One more run was huge but Robert’s let’s him die on the hill, if he was pitching well he would have been taken out last inning.

When Julio’s change up is working he’s an all star and when it’s not they sit on his fastball and well the results aren’t the same. But cmon 2 no nothing pitchers have shut us down so far. That’s unacceptable!

I think Roberts left Urias in there because he is going to have to have a bullpen game tomorrow. Neither Scherzer or Buehler will be ready to go. But 5 runs? They had never overcome a 3 run lead until yesterday. Now they get 2 on with 1 out and dumb ass Taylor pops out on the first pitch. They do that way too frippen often. And look who comes through with a 2 run single, Pollock.

Playoff Pollock has a new meaning now. That was huge. Going the other way gets us two runs. Lesson learned?

Instead of pulling off that pitch Pollock went the other way

With our lineup we should be playing with leads not deficits.

It’s ridiculous to have to depend on a miracle to win a game with our lineup.

Kudos to belli also

Nice AB by AJ. At least we got 2.

So, now Roberts double switches which brings up the pitcher sooner. Probably not a big deal but not how one usually uses a double-switch.

Wow. TT totally lost up there! Hard to hit balls bouncing in the dirt!

Julio had his worst start since June today. His worst start of his last 20 starts. And the only start this year giving up 3 home runs. He clearly did not have his good stuff today, but gave his best effort. I have to think the decision to throw him on Sunday on minimal rest disrupted his routine and negatively impacted his performance today.

I believe it was much more a Friedman decision than Dave Roberts. Sometimes smart people overthink things.

They received a lot of credit for Scherzer closing out game 5 against the Giants, but it was likely that Kenley closes that game out as well.

The decision to use Julio instead of Treinen, Jansen and Graterol probably cost them game 2 and probably hurt their chances in game 4 as well. I didn’t like the move from the minute he was put into the game Sunday. Not only are you messing with your game 4 starter, but you are asking a young pitcher who overcame major shoulder injury, and has pitched by far a career high of innings this year to pitch three times in 5 days, in super high stress innings.

We will never know if the relief stint had any impact on Julio today or not. But to me it appears that the decision negatively impacted two games this series. Even if there was no impact today, it was not worth the risk, and not a wise move.

The Dodgers are currently losing this series more so due to the lack of hitting than any management decisions. Hopefully, they can start hitting and turn the series around. They still have the talent and ability to win this series even down 2 games to 1 and 5-2 in this game.

Let’s go, Dodgers!

Down 5-2 in the eighth. We’ve been here before! We’ve got them right where we want them!

They lose Turner to what looks like a balky hammy. That is a blow. If he was hitting like he usually does, it would be even worse. Team looks listless.

CT3, as much as I love him, just might be the dumbest player the Dodgers have. He comes up to bat with two new relief pitchers once with runner at 1st and 3rd and swings at the first pitch with not so much of a tough out at all. He then leads off the 8th with a new pitcher and swings at the first pitch when they needed base runners.

That has to drive Doc crazy….is that circular reasoning, asking for a friend?

Gonsolin is not a relief pitcher! How good would this Brave lineup be with Acuna and Ozuna! Wow! What a pickup with Rosario!

Down 3-1 after four games. We’ve been here before. We’ve got them right where we want them!

No late inning magic tonight. We will be down 3-1 with a bullpen game looming. The injuries played a huge part as has the sudden lack of offense since the playoffs began. When your table setters are not getting on you are not going to win many games. Except for a couple of games, they have been unable to score. That puts a lot of pressure on your pitching staff to be damn near perfect, And with the momentum and high of last nights win, to come out as flat and listless as they have been tonight? That just shows a huge lack of preparation. This is going to be about as disappointing an end to a season as I have ever seen. A team with this much talent being totally out played, out pitched and out managed. The pitchers look gassed. The players look gassed. Atlanta has taken advantage of every opening they have recieved. Give them and their players a lot of credit.