Tonight is the Biggest Game of the Year

Put Pujols allá the time!!!!

Rally round the machine boys! Be a good rascal and join in the band.

Minor League Report:

Mike Busch is raking like a lunatic – 2-4 tonight. BA up to .260.

Mike Grove went 4 innings, allowed 2 hits, 1 ER, walked 0, and K’ed 4. The Dodgers have been unusually patient with him. It’s starting to pay off.

V-Gon pitched one shutout inning for OKC tonight.

Lux played CF and was 0 for 4.

Brandon Lewis hit his 30th HR today.

Rancho put up 19 runs on Lake Elsinore on 20 hits.

That pitch to Betts is a microcosm of the Giants and Dodgers games.

The Giants are just getting everything their way this year.

wow! kill the punk umpire.

The home plate umpire taking the bat away from Betts needs to be fired. That’s just wrong!

Unbelieveable! Top of the 9th, 2-2 pitch to Mookie and the umpire takes the bat out of his hands with a called 3rd strike that was clearly a ball. The Giants have indeed got every close call their way. Don’t forget the non-called check swing 3rd strike to Ruff in LA when KJ was having a meltdown. If he had been rung up the game is over but the 1st base um said no swing and Ruff walked only to see Wade get a hit next and the Dodgers lose.

The freaking umpires are being paid good money to get it right. Bring on the electronic strike zone. This BS is too much.

The Dodgers cleared a 40-man roster spot by outrighting right-hander Ryan Meisinger to Triple-A. Los Angeles claimed Meisinger off waivers from the Cubs on Tuesday and only briefly kept him on the big league roster before assigning him to the minors. Meisinger has tossed 31 innings over parts of three MLB seasons, including 7 1/3 frames with Chicago this season that saw the righty post a 12.27 ERA. The results have been much better for Meisinger at Triple-A over his career, as he has a 3.18 ERA and 31.25% strikeout rate over 93 1/3 frames at the top minor league level.

Home unpire helped Dodgers some times . Saved Saeager for a strikeout…and the same for Smith with the Load bases….I agree the pitch to Betts was a balls with Any dude…but unpire Made mistakes both sides

Dodgers got a run from shit calls earlier too but still, that call to Mookie really killed the momentum and the pressure on McGee.

Terrible game.

Giants come on with a bullpen game, no Posey against Bueller and get lit up. Completely looked flat.

Can someone PLEASE show Bellinger the bunt that Crawford laid down over and over and over and over on the plane to St. L? Did I hear that right on the ESPN broadcast that Bellinger is hitting like 138 on fastballs? Jeez. I saw him on his knees on swings, falling sideways on others. Dude is so far off and STILL swinging for the 5 run homer no matter the count, pitch or situation. Losing Pollack is really going to hurt with Bellinger being just flat out awful.

Taylor may be sucking the last few days but I would still rather watch his ABs. At least they are somewhat competitive. Bellinger’s are not even close. Just about automatic as watching Rich Hill bat.

I am not a Roberts fan at all but can’t really lay any of this sorry game on him. Bueller laid an egg. Offense sucked. Pretty much sums it up.

I have to admit that I like the ways the Giants play to win. Not afraid to change out pitchers at any time, drop a bunt, even Crawford getting caught stealing I was thinking that I wished LA did that more often .

LA just looks so predictable on offense. ADOUCHE made a good point on the broadcast that I think people who think like me will agree with. I am sure other coaches tell their guys that LA will NOT bunt so no need to worry about that. It shows. With T Turner, Betts, Belli, Lux (when up), Pollack having good to great speed, I still can’t see why they don’t………..especially Bellinger since he obviously can’t hit his way on.

This was a big loss after the Brave sweep and a big series loss but still a lot left to play. Hopefuly Taylor and Muncy can get it going. Bellinger is a lost cause at this point. If he was going to adjust, he would have by now. Still the same approach that hasn’t worked in over a year.

TT helped McGee too. He swing a Bad pitch with 2 balls and no Strikes

Well at least our bullpen held it together. It’s sad our bullpen is our only strength at this stage.

Looks like an offensive team schneid. This was an important late season game and the giants seemed much more up for it than we were.

If Muncy, Taylor, Turner and Mookie all finish like this we could have have trouble winning the Division and we won’t go far in the playoffs. I don’t expect much from Bellinger, Seager should be ok but right now we have too many easy outs in this lineup. I expect them to snap out of it of course, and I’d rather see them all go ape in October, but the look we had tonight is concerning to me. We should have won this game and frankly we sucked.

I do think Roberts has to share the blame for this one. He should have pulled Buehler in the second inning before the game got out of hand, knowing the offense would struggle to catch up. It does nothing for team morale or Buehler’s confidence to let him flail/fail.

I know Bellinger isn’t the reason we lost this game. But just to make a point. People want to compare him to Matt Kemp and Agon.

But neither of those guys went anywhere close to tanking like Belli has

He just refuses to cut his swing down. Maybe Roberts needs to call his dad, maybe he can get through to him

Maybe I’m being naïve

The pitch to Betts and the many other miscalls in this game are emblematic of the mediocre pitch calling that we have been seeing all year. The Commissioner and MLB are surely aware of this problem and need to address it this winter. It simply cannot continue.

Noname, I coached Little League 50 years ago so what do I know, but I hear people say how much Belli is working on his swing.

Maybe he is, no doubt he is but I just don’t see much of any adjustments. Same old swing every time, with mostly the same results every time. Maybe it’s his shoulder but if it is, I doubt his shoulder is going to get better with that violent swing. To me Belli has no control of his swing and no confidence that he can it a ball.

I just don’t understand why he doesn’t try another approach. Sad to watch!

I am the one who has brought up Kemp and Agon with respect their struggles after their shoulder problems. I am not going to do any research or look anything up with respect to either of them. In the case of Agon, I believe it occurred while he was with Boston, and I wasn’t following him at the time. In Matt Kemp’s case, I believe his injury occurred in August 2012, when he crashed into the outfield wall in Colorado. If memory serves, I believe he ended that season going about 1 for 50, and it took him a several more years to recover.

Hopefully with advances in knowledge and medical technology the recovery time will be quicker for Bellinger.

Agon , and Kemp to some degree, kept hitting however. They just lost a lot of power, especially Agon.

Bellinger get blown away by mediocre fastballs.

Agon and Kemp has long histories of being top echelon hitters, especially Agon.

I don’t think I would even somewhat put Bellinger in that category, even with an MVP two years ago.

If Bellinger has a bum shoulder, and I really do wonder if that is just cover for a shit player right now, then swinging like that isn’t helping. I have a torn labrum right now that needs repair and it hurts just watching him swing. Why on earth the brass isn’t telling him shorten up, drop some bunts, etc. and let use your speed on the bases!!!

THIS team doesn’t need him to hit HRs to win. It used to be sad to watch. Then it was frustrating. Now it’s just laughable. He will surely run into a few over the next few weeks, and the Cody is Back guys will appear.

He is lost and every pitcher knows that he can’t hit a decent fastball. Throw it a little up and he is toast. Just about every single time.

The game was lost before the 9th but still a frustrating 9th inning after the HR. McGee was rattled so I just don’t get TT swinging 2-0 when they need a runner on base anyways.

Yes, the Dodgers hitters had a couple of close calls go their way but until the 9th inning thats how the ump had called the zone. For Mookie two balls were called strikes that weren’t even close. That’s the frustrating part. They weren’t borderline calls on Mookie. Please bring in the electronic K zone already.

Time to get Seager in the two hole where he belongs.

It took Kemp almost a year and a half before he was hitting with authority again. A=gone was solid after about the same length of time, but was never a 40 HR guy again. Bellinger had his surgery about 10 months ago. SO l think he will be a better hitter come next season. Especially if he gets a full spring training to work with the coaches. A couple of other things, first off, I would love to see them re-sign Seager, but i see a couple of problems, one, he is a Boras client and Boras wants his players to go after the money. Second, they also have to make decisions on Scherzer, Kershaw, Taylor, and Jansen. Third, no one knows what the threshold is going to be. But, you can bet the MLBPA is not going to allow the owners to drop the threshold. They want to make it 180 million, and that is not going to happen. The MLBPA is not going to take a step back. Everyone keeps saying JT will be the DH next season, but that has not even been discussed yet, Personally, the first thing I want enacted is the electronic strike zone. As bad as so many of these calls have been the last week, something needs to be done. Limiting the shift. That also should be on the agenda. I hate it when Machado is playing out there in short right like they do in softball. This stuff has got to end. I want to see the DH simply because I am tired of pitchers killing rally’s. And Buehler made my case when he struck out in the second inning. The Dodgers were a great team last year because they had the DH, and they did a great job coming back in games. This year, not so much.

Walker Buehler with his worst outing of the year in the most important game of the year. He was so bad that you have to wonder if he is injured. The Giants won the season series 9-8, and with the Dodgers chasing them, the Giants have beaten the Dodgers in three straight series. They have won 7 of the last 10 games against the Dodgers. The Giants have less talent but they are the better team head to head and deserve the division.

The Giants were able to beat the Cy Young favorite with a mix of average pitchers including two released from the pitiful Angels staff.

The Dodgers seem to lack the effort and desire of the Giants. Maybe after winning a championship, the team just doesn’t have the same edge. The giants seem much more willing to do whatever it takes to win including bunting for hits, shortening up and emphasizing opposite field contact, and pitching multiple innings or back to back games.

A very disappointing game and series, but have to hand it to the Giants for somehow finding a way to win 2 of 3.

The ump stunk both ways.

Belli still stinks, automatic out except maybe against AA pitchers

Poor CT3 is begging to have a few games off, but no can do (Pollock out)

Giants deserve the credit- bullpen v Buehler. David v Goliath, and David won again.

Dodger 40 man roster is at 39 as of today. A move is coming from AF. Maybe Davidson or Sousa from Oklahoma City to add a much needed right handed bat and to spell Bellinger against left handed pitchers. We will face two lefties in Kim and Happ in the Cardinal series this week.