The Futures Game is Here!
The 2022 Futures Game is finally here and will be held tonight. The seven-inning American vs. National League game will take place at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, July 16 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. It will be broadcast live on Peacock and SiriusXM, with MLB Network producing the…
The 2022 Futures Game is finally here and will be held tonight. The seven-inning American vs. National League game will take place at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, July 16 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. It will be broadcast live on Peacock and SiriusXM, with MLB Network producing the telecast and re-airing the game at 9 a.m. ET on Sunday. Scott Braun, Yonder Alonso, Jim Callis, and A.J. Andrews will call the game.
In case you have forgotten, the Dodgers have three players on the NL team:
- C Diego Cartaya (No. 1/MLB No. 14),
- RHP Bobby Miller (No. 2/MLB No. 27), 3B/2B/
- 3B/LF Miguel Vargas (No. 5/MLB No. 72)
Mike Scioscia will be the NL Manager, while Jimmy Rollins will manage the AL team. It’s only appropriate that the Dodger’s #1 prospect, Diego Cartaya, gets his interview with me aired today:
Future Dodgers Down on the Farm
- OKC lost 7-3
- Jason Martin was 1-4 with a 2-run HR
- Jacob Amaya was 2-4
- Tulsa won 6-4
- Jonny DeLuca was 2-5 (.310 BA/.984 OPS) with a triple
- Ryan Ward was 2-4 with 3 RBI and his 21st HR
- Clayton Beeter: 3 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 2 BB, 4 K 4.79 ERA
- Great Lakes was rained out
- Rancho Cucamonga scored a run in the bottom of the 9th to win 15-14
- Luis Diaz, who had three hits and five RBIs on the night, legged out a two-out infield single with the bases loaded, giving the Quakes their second straight win over the Grizzlies and the third in four games over Fresno this week.
- Damon Keith had four RBIs, and Jake Vogel had four hits (Vogel is hitting .252 now after a poor start)
None of the three Future Games Participants were active last night.
There Was a Dodger Game Last Night
Not much to report… the Dodgers scored nine runs, and Clayton Kershaw had a perfect game through 7 innings, but that was about it. Will Smith is smoking hot after going 4-4. Clayton Kershaw is a few innings short of qualifying for the ERA Title, but here’s where the Dodgers starting pitchers rank in the NL in ERA:
2. Tony Gonsolin – 2.02/ 11-0
4. Clayton Kershaw – 2.13/ 7-2
13. Tyler Anderson – 2.96/10-1
15. Julio Urias – 3.01/7-6
That ain’t too shabby, and Andrew Heaney will allegedly be back in a week or two. In the next 30-45 days, the Dodgers will “trade” for a couple more pitchers, like Tommy Kahnle, Brusdar Graterol, Blake Treinen, Victor Gonzalez, Danny Duffy, Jake Reed, Hansel Robles, Ryan Pepiot, and maybe Walker Buehler.
Look for Miguel Vargas to get the call with the next IL stint. Andre Jackson is most likely to be DFA’ed!
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Discussion (58)
Disagree, not disagreeable
Would you trade Mookie as the major piece in a Soto trade? The Nats aren’t a poor team. Mookie would give them a cornerstone to build around and his deal is set in stone. He has no choice but to stay? Soto has 2 and half years before Boros can pressure him into a big money deal to play for a loser, like Corey Seager. We might have to include a prospect or two to go along with the deal.
It would allow us to get out of Mookie’s ugly years at the end.
Cronenworth over Lux to replace Chisholm? That’s just not right!
Just read that Kershaw ‘s whip is currently at 1.001 and is fourth on the all time list. This stat could fall below 1 if he keeps pitching perfect innings like he has this year.
I say let him be the starter in the all star game. Ohtani pitches the top of the first. Kershaw goes out and pitches the bottom of the first facing Ohtani batting first.
Baseball drama at its best!
Did I just see Max flipping us off here at LA Dodgertalk?
Well I feel very confident if we play a Freeway Series this year!
Just my opinion but Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman are better players than Mookie Betts. Not just this year but also careers.
Mookie, Bellinger and Clayton Beeter for Juan Soto….Nats get a superstar (Betts) plus a former MVP and a top minor league pitcher. Dodgers clear Mookie’s long term deal, Bellinger’s 16+ mill contract next and can give that money to Soto….
Muncy is getting better and better at 3b
Hopefully this keeps him off of 2b and thus Lux out of LF
Dodgers are on pace for 108 wins even including when the offense was not so great. As it’s been improving quite sufficiently I’m thinking at least 112 wins!
Nice to see Max crank one out. Any sign that he will start hitting again is a positive. Trea and Freddie were doing Trea and Freddie things.. Also nice to see another strong game from Julio. Dodgers now have four starters with sub-3 ERAs.
The Dodgers are rolling, obviously….but let’s offer a moment of sad silence for the poor, pitiful Angels.
Just a few weeks ago they were rolling too. At one point, MLB.com had them at Np 5 in their “power rankings.” Taylor Ward was the hottest hitter in the game, Trout and Ohtani were doing their thing, Rendon and Syndergaard wer back from injury, Detmers threw a no-hitter….
All of which made a Freeway Series in October seemed like a real possibility.
And then it all fell apart, with an epic losing streak that cost Maddon his job. The Angels haven’t gotten much better since. The mini-sweep by the Dodgers follows a sweep by the once-hapless Orioles. Now it’s the Halos who are hapless–14 games below ,500 and 24 games out of first.
With the trade deadline approaching, they have to be sellers, right?
Just got back to civilization after a week of hiking and fishing a creak. Missed the Futures Game. And I ain’t waking up that early in the West Coast to watch the replay so I hope there are some good highlights. Caught the tail end of the game tonight. The Angels are just sad. Two of the (if not THE) best players in baseball on a team that knows nothing else but the sucking noise found only in the cellar. Baltimore is better. Just sad. I know a lot of Angels fans. I really feel bad for them.
The news that Soto turned down $100 trillion dollars from the Nats has the Dodger world speculating. Not just fans. But “legit” journalists (I did swallow a laugh, just typing that). Andrew Friedman is going to bed studying Garry Kasparov. Everybody else is fumbling through a used copy of the Cliff’s Notes of the original “Checkers for dummies”.
Soto is a stud. 2 years of control would take most of our top prospects. And Soto wants… a continent (he might accept Australia, but don’t count on it) and to have his face carved into the moon (the light side).
We aren’t singing Trea for $400m. We aren’t trading the system for Soto. Nor should we.
Andrew Friedman Is smarter than me. And that’s really about all I know. And that Soto and Trea won’t be Dodgers next year.
GREAT NEWS!!
Dustin May starts and pitches 2 innings last night in the ACL with 3Ks 0Hits 0BB 0R.
FUTURES GAME
DODGERS — Diego Cartaya, C (No. 1/MLB No. 13): The NL’s starting catcher, Cartaya appeared to record the final out in the bottom of the second when he hit a long fly ball to center field, but Jasson Domínguez dropped it at the warning track, allowing two runs to score. Cartaya later grounded out to third to lead off the bottom of the fourth against Jack Leiter. Bobby Miller, RHP (No. 2/MLB No. 26): Miller earned the start for the NL and didn’t disappoint in his future home park. Although he gave up one run on a hit and a walk, he struck out three while topping out at 100.3 mph. Miguel Vargas, 3B (No. 5/MLB No. 70): Vargas joined Cartaya and Miller in the starting lineup at second base and went 0-for-1 with a four-pitch walk and a groundout.
NOT SO GOOD NEWS!!!
Andrew Heaney on rehab at A Rancho last night 2.2IP 6H 4R 4ER 0BB 2K 2HR 13.50 ERA