Dodgers, Yesterday and Today

Player              Split  PA 2B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG  OPS
Cody Bellinger        May 113  4  5  13 11 30 .180 .265 .390 .655
Chris Taylor          May 112  5  3  10 16 29 .253 .393 .451 .843
Matt Kemp             May 103 10  3  17  4 19 .361 .379 .557 .935
Yasmani Grandal       May  89  0  4   9 15 22 .181 .315 .347 .662
Max Muncy             May  84  5  5  15 13 19 .261 .381 .551 .932
Joc Pederson          May  79  6  0   5  6 12 .211 .278 .324 .602
Justin Turner         May  60  3  1   8  4  6 .255 .317 .364 .680
Yasiel Puig           May  60  2  5   8  7 12 .283 .367 .604 .970
Enrique Hernandez     May  60  0  4   7  4 15 .196 .250 .411 .661
Chase Utley           May  54  1  0   3  3 12 .137 .185 .196 .381
Austin Barnes         May  50  0  1   1  7 11 .214 .340 .286 .626
Logan Forsythe        May  45  3  0   2  3  5 .238 .289 .310 .598
Alex Verdugo          May  30  4  0   1  0  5 .241 .241 .379 .621
Kyle Farmer           May  23  0  0   2  1  5 .190 .217 .190 .408
Tim Locastro          May  14  1  0   0  2  5 .182 .357 .273 .630

Year   Rnd OvPck Signed                     Name Pos  WAR   G
2013     1    18      Y   Chris Anderson(minors)          RHP
2013     2    56      Y       Tom Windle(minors)          LHP
2013     3    92      Y    Brandon Dixon(minors)       3B   7
2013     4   124      Y   Cody Bellinger(minors)  1B  4.8 187
2013     5   154      Y                J.D. Underwood(minors)
2013     6   184      Y      Jacob Rhame(minors) RHP -0.5  19
2013     7   214      Y Brandon Trinkwon(minors)           SS
2013     8   244      Y      Kyle Farmer(minors)   C  0.2  50
2013     9   274      Y       Hank Yates(minors)           LF
2013    10   304      Y      Nick Keener(minors)          RHP
2013    11   334      Y    Spencer Navin(minors)            C
2013    12   364      Y         Adam Law(minors)           3B
2013    13   394      N        Ty Damron(minors)          LHP
2013    14   424      Y  Michael Johnson(minors)          LHP
2013    15   454      Y    Billy Flamion(minors)          LHP
2013    16   484      N     Peter Miller(minors)          RHP
2013    17   514      Y      Greg Harris(minors)          RHP
2013    18   544      Y   James McDonald(minors)           2B
2013    19   574      Y  Blake Hennessey(minors)           SS
2013    20   604      Y       Mike Ahmed(minors)           LF
2013    21   634      Y      James Baune(minors)          RHP
2013    22   664      Y      Jake Fisher(minors)          LHP
2013    23   694      Y      MJ Villegas(minors)          RHP
2013    24   724      Y     Jose De Leon(minors) RHP -0.8   3
2013    25   754      Y      Kyle Hooper(minors)          RHP
2013    26   784      Y    Thomas Taylor(minors)          RHP
2013    27   814      N     Tanner Kiest(minors)          RHP
2013    28   844      Y     Crayton Bare(minors)          LHP
2013    29   874      N       Sam Finfer(minors)            C
2013    30   904      Y       Ryan Scott(minors)            C
2013    31   934      N Andrew McWilliam(minors)           3B
2013    32   964      Y       Rob Rogers(minors)          RHP
2013    33   994      Y   Tyger Pederson(minors)           2B
2013    34  1024      N     Rob Cerfolio(minors)          LHP
2013    35  1054      N   Kaleb Holbrook(minors)            C
2013    36  1084      N      James Lynch(minors)           RF
2013    37  1114      N      Justin Dunn(minors)          RHP
2013    38  1144      N     Dillon Moyer(minors)           SS
2013    39  1174      N     Jake Sidwell(minors)            C
2013    40  1204      N    Matt Haggerty(minors)           CF

Year    Age   Tm  W  L  W-L%  ERA  GS    IP ERA+  FIP  WHIP   H9 BB9 SO9
2011     21  LAD  1  2  .333 3.63   6  34.2  102 4.35 1.385  7.3 5.2 6.0
2012     22  TOT  4 13  .235 4.30  22 119.1   92 4.13 1.508 10.0 3.5 5.9
2012     22  LAD  1  6  .143 4.15  10  56.1   92 4.11 1.473 10.1 3.2 5.4
2012     22  MIA  3  7  .300 4.43  12  63.0   92 4.16 1.540 10.0 3.9 6.3
2013     23  MIA  4  6  .400 3.39  18 106.1  114 3.59 1.317  8.5 3.4 6.6
2014     24  MIA  6 14  .300 4.37  33 199.2   85 3.37 1.332 10.1 1.9 6.4
2015     25  NYY 14  3  .824 4.20  27 154.1   97 3.42 1.451 10.2 2.9 7.1
2016     26  NYY  9  8  .529 4.76  21 124.2   90 4.97 1.307  8.9 2.9 7.0
2018     28  TBR  1  0 1.000 0.00   1        6.0 2.28 0.167  0.0 1.5 6.0
7 Yr   7 Yr 7 Yr 39 46  .459 4.18 128 745.0   94 3.84 1.372  9.4 2.9 6.6
MIA     MIA  MIA 13 27  .325 4.10  63 369.0   93 3.57 1.363  9.6 2.7 6.4
LAD     LAD  LAD  2  8  .200 3.96  16  91.0   96 4.20 1.440  9.0 4.0 5.6
NYY     NYY  NYY 23 11  .676 4.45  48 279.0   94 4.11 1.387  9.6 2.9 7.0
TBR     TBR  TBR  1  0 1.000 0.00   1        6.0 2.28 0.167  0.0 1.5 6.0

Kenta Maeda has the best two game stretch in his three year career

Phil Gurnee ♦ May 24, 2018 ♦ 4 Comments

Fresh off of his best game ever in the major leagues, Kenta followed it up with another gem giving him a two-game, game score total of 164, by far his best two games back to back.  Kenta has had only five games out of sixty-six starts with a game score >= 75 and two of those five have come in his last two starts.

Date         Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
2018-05-23   COL W 3-0 6.2 2  0  4 12  78
2018-05-17   MIA W 7-0 8.0 2  0  0  8  86
2017-08-01   ATL W 3-2 7.0 2  0  1  6  78
2017-06-27   LAA W 4-0 7.0 4  0  0  6  75
2016-07-10   SDP W 3-1 7.0 2  1  0 13  82

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Yikes, this was not supposed to be a massive column but the deeper I got the deeper I got.

For a little perspective on this, let’s see how other pitchers on this Dodger team besides Kershaw have done compared to this two-game stretch by Kenta. Rich Hill has had two outstanding sets of back to back games. The first set was right after his blister problems of 2016 where he pitched a one-hitter and the abbreviated no-hitter in back to back games in Sept of 2016 to total a combined 157 game score points.  In 2017 Rich Hill stepped into July with back to back outstanding starts and tallied up 162 total game score points.

Rk         Date  Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
3    2017-07-06 LAD ARI W 5-4 7.0 2  1  0  9  78
4    2017-07-01 LAD SDP W 8-0 7.0 4  0  1 11  79
5    2016-09-10 LAD MIA W 5-0 7.0 0  0  0  9  86
6    2016-09-03 LAD SDP W 5-1 6.0 1  0  2  8  76

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How about Alex Wood? Alex has had four games scores >= 75 as a Dodger and none have come in back to back games.

Hyun-Jin Ryu never had a two-game stretch that matches Kenta but earlier this year Ryu did have a three-game stretch where he put up game scores of 77, 67, and 78. In 2014 Ryu had a game score of 75 on March 30th, and a game score of 80 on April 11th, but in between those brilliant starts was one of the worse games of his career on April 4th in which he gave up eight hits and six runs in just two innings.

Now I’m going to go back to the year 2000 and forward. These are pitchers with at least one game score of 75. How many of them did it in back to back games.

Randy Wolf  – one game score >= 75, did not

Jeff Weaver – six games scores >= 75 did not but he did come close with a game score start of 78 on 8/28/2005 and a game score of 89 on 9/12/2005 but in between he put up two stinkers of 30 and 41. See how hard it is.

Brett Tomko – one game score >= 75, did not

Eric Stults – two games scores >= 75, did not

Aaron Sele  – one game score >= 75, did not

Odalis Perez – eleven game scores > 75, did not. I fully expected him to have done this but the closest he came was in 2002. On June 9th he had a game score of 79 and on June 25th a brilliant 90 but in between, he had two starts of 63 and 66. That might have been his best four-game stretch as a Dodger but it was bookended by a 44 and 45 which is why he drove us crazy and didn’t get his moment in the sun.

Brad Penny – five games scores >= 75, did not.

Chan Ho Park – nineteen games scores, twelve in the 21st century  >= 75,  and yes he did. On 9/24/2000 Chan Ho had a game score of 87, and he followed that up with a game score of 95 for a two-game total of 182.  The game score of 95 is one of the greatest game scores by a right-handed LAD since 2000.

Rk            Player       Date  Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
1       Chan Ho Park 2000-09-29 LAD SDP W 3-0 9.0 2  0  1 13  95
2       Chan Ho Park 2001-07-18 LAD MIL W 5-0 9.0 2  0  0  9  92
3       Zack Greinke 2013-07-13 LAD COL W 1-0 9.0 2  0  1  9  91
4      Hiroki Kuroda 2008-07-07 LAD ATL W 3-0 9.0 1  0  0  6  91
5        Kevin Brown 2000-09-23 LAD SDP W 2-1 9.0 2  1  1 13  91
6       Josh Beckett 2014-05-25 LAD PHI W 6-0 9.0 0  0  3  6  90
7    Vicente Padilla 2010-08-04 LAD SDP W 9-0 9.0 2  0  2  9  90
8      Hiroki Kuroda 2008-06-06 LAD CHC W 3-0 9.0 4  0  0 11  90
9         Derek Lowe 2005-08-31 LAD CHC W 7-0 9.0 1  0  2  7  90

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Hideo Nomo – twenty-two game scores >= 75, but only five since 2000.  Hideo did not do it in the 21st century but he did it several times in 1995 and 1996. In 1996 he preceded his no-hitter at Coors with a game score of 77. His no-hitter was a 91 for a combined two-game, game score of 168.  His 1995 was ridiculous. From May 28th, 1995 until Aug 5th, Nomo made fifteen starts, and had eight-game scores of at least 75.  That has to be the best fifteen game run by a right handed LAD since the days of the Bulldog.

Date          Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
2003-06-25   LAD SFG W 6-0 7.0 2  0  1  7  79
2003-06-15   LAD CLE W 4-3 7.0 2  1  1  8  76
1996-09-17   LAD COL W 9-0 9.0 0  0  4  8  91
1996-09-12   LAD STL W 4-1 8.0 2  1  3  6  77
1995-08-05   LAD SFG W 3-0 9.0 1  0  3 11  93
1995-07-30   LAD CIN W 5-4 8.0 5  1  0 11  79
1995-07-15   LAD FLA W 3-1 9.0 3  1  0 10  87
1995-06-29   LAD COL W 3-0 9.0 6  0  1 13  87
1995-06-24   LAD SFG W 7-0 9.0 2  0  3 13  93
1995-06-19   LAD STL W 5-2 8.1 3  1  3  8  76
1995-06-02   LAD NYM W 2-1 8.0 2  1  3  6  77
1995-05-17   LAD PIT L 2-3 7.0 2  0  3 14  84

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Ricky Nolasco – two games scores >= 75, and yes they came back to back. Who’d thunk it. If someone told me that I’d demand proof so here it is.

Date          Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
2013-08-28   LAD CHC W 4-0 8.0 3  0  1 11  86
2013-08-23   LAD BOS W 2-0 8.0 2  0  0  6  84

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Greg Maddox – two games scores >= 75, did not

Derek Lowe – ten game scores >=75, and yes he did. Twice. We forget just how good Derek Lowe was for us in his brief Dodger time. In fact, his two games in 2005 put up a combined total of 174 game score points which is the 2nd highest two-game total so far.

Date          Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
2007-06-15   LAD LAA W 2-1 7.0 4  1  1 11  75
2007-06-09   LAD TOR L 0-1 9.0 4  1  0  3  78
2005-08-31   LAD CHC W 7-0 9.0 1  0  2  7  90
2005-07-25   LAD CIN W 4-0 8.0 1  0  1  5  84

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Jose Lima – one game score >= 75

Ted Lilly – three games scores >75, he did not

Hiroki Kuroda – ten games scores >= 75, he did not

Scott Kazmir – three games scores >= 75, he did not

Kaz Ishii – three game scores >= 75, he did not

DJ Houlton – one game score >= 75, Really? Does this shock anyone else?

Dan Haren – two games scores >= 75, he did not

Aaron Harang – one game score >=75, surprisingly it was not the strikeout game

Zack Greinke – seventeen game scores >= 75, and of course he did. Twice.

Date          Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
2014-07-30   LAD ATL W 3-2 8.0 5  1  1 13  80
2014-07-25   LAD SFG W 8-1 7.0 4  0  1 10  78
2013-07-13   LAD COL W 1-0 9.0 2  0  1  9  91
2013-07-08   LAD ARI W 6-1 7.0 2  0  2  7  78

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Jon Garland – one game score >= 75

Eric Gagne – two game scores >= 75, he did not

John Ely – one game score >= 75, who could forget Elymania?

Darren Dreifort – eight games scores >= 75, and yes he did.

Rk         Date  Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc IR
7    2000-07-23 LAD SFG W 5-0 7.0 2  0  1  9     81
8    2000-07-28 LAD PHI W 2-0 7.0 2  0  2  6     77

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Yu Darvish – three times in one year, but none back to back.

Omar Daal – one time

Chris Capuano – five game scores >= 75, and yes he did. Chris debuted with the Dodgers in 2012 and had the interesting first five games scores as he got better and better with each start 43, 55, 54, 62, 75, and 76. And yes I know 54 is less than 55 but you get the point.

Date          Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
2012-04-29   LAD WSN W 2-0 6.2 3  0  2  9  75
2012-05-05   LAD CHC W 5-1 7.0 3  0  2  7  76

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Walker Frigging Buehler has already done it twice but not back to back yet. Which is amazing for a guy who was supposed to be a five inning pitcher for a while.

Kevin Brown – holy shit, 24 times in just five years and 129 starts. Of course he did. Is this the guy with the highest back to back game score total. He needs to beat 182. Shockingly he did not, but he did have a few notable back to back games. Because he’s a HOF, not just a borderline HOF, a real HOF who for some reason, the voters simply ignored. Kevin Brown had back to back game scores of at least 75, five times but never had a total combined game score in back to back games greater than 170 which is still an awesome score but doesn’t knock of Chan Ho Park and his 182 or even D Lowe and his 174.

Date          Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
1999-05-19   LAD HOU W 5-2 8.0 4  1  2  8  76
1999-05-25   LAD CIN L 2-3 8.0 5  1  1 12  75
1999-08-04   LAD HOU W 2-1 9.0 4  1  2  7  80
1999-08-09   LAD NYM W 9-2 7.0 2  0  1  3  75
2000-07-19   LAD COL W 9-1 8.0 1  0  1  8  85
2000-07-24   LAD COL W 4-1 8.0 3  1  1  5  76
2001-05-07   LAD FLA W 1-0 8.0 2  0  2 10  86
2001-05-12   LAD ATL W 1-0 8.0 3  0  1  9  84
2003-05-25   LAD MIL W 5-1 8.0 4  1  1  8  77
2003-05-31   LAD MIL W 3-0 8.0 6  0  0  6  76

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Mike Bolsinger – one time

Chad Billingsley – sixteen times the much maligned Chad Billingsley had a game score >= 75. Sixteen times!!!!!!! – but not once did he have back to back game scores of at least 75.

Josh Beckett – three times, and he did not

James Baldwin – one time

Andy Asby – twice

Wilson Alvarez – five times, and yes he did. Time to write a column about the Wilson Alvarez’s. The impact pitchers who were not prospects nor traded for that either came back from the dead or from nowhere.

Date          Tm Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
2004-05-07   LAD PIT W 4-0 7.0 1  0  0  5  80
2004-05-12   LAD CHC W 4-0 7.2 5  0  1  8  76

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Terry Adams – one time

Whew, finally done.  Did anyone get to the finish line? If so give me a holler.

Player                 OPS+  PA Age  Tm
Kris Bryant             169 185  26 CHC
Jose Ramirez            156 198  25 CLE
Nolan Arenado           148 186  27 COL
Max Muncy               148  86  27 LAD
Eugenio Suarez          144 132  26 CIN
Christian Villanueva    140 150  27 SDP
Eduardo Escobar         140 170  29 MIN
Jedd Gyorko             137  86  29 STL
Mike Moustakas          132 199  29 KCR
Matt Chapman            129 194  25 OAK

Date         Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc IR
2018-05-17   MIA W 7-0 8.0 2  0  0  8     86
2016-07-10   SDP W 3-1 7.0 2  1  0 13     82
2017-08-01   ATL W 3-2 7.0 2  0  1  6     78
2017-06-27   LAA W 4-0 7.0 4  0  0  6     75

Player                  Date Opp  Rslt  IP H ER BB SO GSc
Ramon Martinez    1995-07-14 FLA W 7-0 9.0 0  0  1  8  94
Clayton Kershaw   2011-05-29 FLA W 8-0 9.0 2  0  1 10  92
Hideo Nomo        1996-04-13 FLA W 3-1 9.0 3  1  3 17  91
Ramon Martinez    1994-06-07 FLA W 2-0 9.0 3  0  0  7  88
Hideo Nomo        1995-07-15 FLA W 3-1 9.0 3  1  0 10  87
Kenta Maeda       2018-05-17 MIA W 7-0 8.0 2  0  0  8  86
Rich Hill         2016-09-10 MIA W 5-0 7.0 0  0  0  9  86
Kevin Brown       2001-05-07 FLA W 1-0 8.0 2  0  2 10  86
Chris Capuano     2012-08-12 MIA W 5-0 8.0 2  0  3 10  85
Pedro Astacio     1993-09-12 FLA W 1-0 9.0 5  0  2  7  82
Brad Penny        2007-05-07 FLA W 6-1 7.0 5  0  0 14  81
Kevin Brown       2002-05-11 FLA W 3-0 7.0 3  0  1 10  80