HOF Don Sutton is on top of this LAD leaderboard
The best game ever pitched at Dodger Stadium against the Expo/National baseball franchise using game score as the criteria was performed by HOF Don Sutton back in 1975. Don had to throw 11 innings to get that game score of 89.
Clayton Kershaw and Derek Lowe are the only two LAD who have produced a game score >= 80 against the Washington Nationals.
There are no unlikely names on this list as every one of these pitchers were all solid pitchers for the Dodgers. Sutton, Messersmith, Fernando, Leary, Reuss, Kershaw, Lowe, Rau, Hooten, and Astacio.
Remember the franchise didn’t come into existence until 1969 so Koufax, Drysdale and company never got a shot to pitch against them.
Player Date Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc Don Sutton 1975-08-24 MON L 3-5 11.0 4 1 3 9 89 Andy Messersmith 1975-06-09 MON W 4-0 9.0 4 0 3 12 88 Fernando Valenzuela 1986-05-20 MON W 4-0 9.0 2 0 1 6 88 Tim Leary 1988-08-21 MON W 4-0 9.0 6 0 0 12 87 Jerry Reuss 1982-07-20 MON W 10-1 9.0 4 0 0 8 85 Doug Rau 1979-05-11 MON W 7-0 9.0 1 0 4 4 85 Clayton Kershaw 2013-05-14 WSN W 2-0 8.2 5 0 1 11 84 Clayton Kershaw 2015-08-12 WSN W 3-0 8.0 3 0 0 8 84 Orel Hershiser 1988-08-19 MON W 2-0 9.0 5 0 1 8 84 Orel Hershiser 1985-09-03 MON W 4-0 9.0 4 0 1 6 84 Tim Leary 1988-05-19 MON W 2-0 9.0 7 0 0 10 83 Derek Lowe 2008-07-26 WSN W 6-0 8.0 1 0 1 4 83 Andy Messersmith 1974-04-26 MON W 7-1 9.0 3 1 3 7 81 Jerry Reuss 1980-08-31(1) MON W 2-0 9.0 4 0 1 3 81 Burt Hooton 1978-08-28 MON W 4-0 9.0 4 0 1 3 81 Pedro Astacio 1994-07-05 MON W 2-1 8.0 2 1 2 8 80 Don Sutton 1978-06-18 MON W 5-0 9.0 6 0 1 6 80
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