Highest TB games at Dodger Stadium against Marlins
Strangely enough there have not been many great offensive games by a Dodger against the Marlins at Dodger Stadium. Gary Sheffield leads the pack with ten, everyone else is tied with eight.
Player Date Opp Rslt PA R H 2B 3B HR TB RBI BB Gary Sheffield 2000-04-29 FLA W 13-12 6 2 3 1 0 2 10 5 2 Andre Ethier 2015-05-12 MIA W 11-1 5 1 5 0 0 1 8 3 0 Andre Ethier 2012-08-25 MIA W 8-2 4 2 4 1 0 1 8 1 0 Steve Finley 2004-08-17 FLA W 6-1 4 2 3 2 0 1 8 2 0 Shawn Green 2000-04-30 FLA W 7-1 4 2 2 0 0 2 8 3 1 Todd Hundley 1999-08-18 FLA W 7-0 4 2 2 0 0 2 8 2 0 Henry Rodriguez 1994-04-06 FLA W 3-2 3 2 2 0 0 2 8 3 0
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Interesting list, not surprising to see Gary Sheffield at the top. Andre makes sense. Steve Finley only had a few months to crack the list and he did. Might be his best game ever as a Dodger if not for that Grand Slam when they only needed a sacrifice fly game.
I like this one curious bit. Gary Sheffield did his game on April 29th, 2000. Shawn Green did his game on April 30th, 2000.
Henry Rodriguez gets in on the action. This will be the first time after 700 posts at Dodgers Yesterday and Today that Henry Rodriquez gets a mention.
Given the current state of the Marlin rotation I could see a 2017 Dodger cracking this leaderboard over this four game series.
Highest Game Score/Strike Out games at Dodger Stadium versus Marlins
Highest game scores at Dodger stadium facing the Miami Marlins
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 Hideo Nomo 1995-07-15 FLA W 3-1 9.0 3 1 0 10 87 Kevin Brown 2001-05-07 FLA W 1-0 8.0 2 0 2 10 86 Pedro Astacio 1993-09-12 FLA W 1-0 9.0 5 0 2 7 82
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Oh look, a no – hitter by Ramon. Which game would you have rather watched? Ramon Martinez no hit the Marlins but win going away 7 – 0, or Hideo Nomo win a tough 3 – 1 game while striking out 17? Tough call.
The more I do these game score leaderboards the more I realize how much I didn’t appreciate how brilliant Hideo Nomo was during his run.
Highest Strike Out games at Dodger Stadium against Miami Marlins
Player Date Opp Rslt IP H ER BB SO GSc Hideo Nomo 1996-04-13 FLA W 3-1 9.0 3 1 3 17 91 Chad Billingsley 2008-07-13 FLA W 9-1 7.0 5 1 0 13 76 Clayton Kershaw 2016-04-26 MIA L 3-6 7.0 7 5 0 10 53 Clayton Kershaw 2011-05-29 FLA W 8-0 9.0 2 0 1 10 92 Kevin Brown 2001-05-07 FLA W 1-0 8.0 2 0 2 10 86 Hideo Nomo 1995-07-15 FLA W 3-1 9.0 3 1 0 10 87 Ramon Martinez 1994-04-07 FLA L 0-1 8.0 6 1 1 10 75
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Can Alex Wood crack this leaderboard? He cracked the last one we did. Chad Billingsley sitting above Clayton might be a surprise. This was Chad’s highest strike out total in any game. He did it twice, once against the Marlins and once against the Diamondbacks. Nine times Chad had double digit strike out games.
Buehler blows Cardinals off perch
Walker Buehler may not find any competition for his pitching repertoire until he hits the major leagues. Walker struck out nine of his eleven outs yesterday in AAA and there is already talk that the talented Buehler could be used in the Dodger bullpen come Sept. He clearly won’t be stretched out enough to be a major league starter in 2017 but if he can bring his 100 MPH heat to the bullpen he might give the Dodgers a shot in the arm right when they need it.
Walker Buehler, rhp, Dodgers. The Dodgers have been careful with Buehler, maxing his pitch count at around 65. However many pitches he has, Buehler is using them to great effect. Like Ivan Drago, every batter Buehler faces, he destroys. In just 3.2 innings Wednesday for Double-A Tulsa, the former Vanderbilt ace struck out nine, touching 100 mph according to the Drillers’ Twitter account. Buehler has struck out 39 of the 95 batters he’s faced and opponents are hitting just .195 against him.
Justin Masterson continues to make his case to pitch once again in the major leagues. Masterson went six innings gave up just two runs, walked none, and struck out seven.
Josh Ravin who looked so impressive last Sept in the Dodger bullpen was fantastic last night. Ravin struck out five of the six hitters he faced. Ravin came off the DL on May 1st, and has appeared only six times but in those six games he has struck out fifteen hitters out of his twenty one outs with only two walks.
Dennis Santana bounced back from his first rough outing in Rancho on May 12 to pitch a solid game last night. Santana went five innings, gave up zero earned runs, walked two and struck out five.
OTDIB – May 17th, 1978 – Lee Lacy homers in 3rd consecutive pinch hitting at-bat
May 17th, 2005 Ervin Santana is cycled in major league debut
With the first 10 pitches he throws in the major leagues, 22 year-old Ervin Santana allows a collective cycle to the first four Indian batters he faces: a triple by Grady Sizemore, a double by Coco Crisp, a single by Travis Hafner, followed by a home run blasted by Ben Broussard. The Angels’ prized rookie right-hander will redeem himself by recording a five-hit shutout in his second major league start, beating the White Sox, 4-0.
I love the cycle much more than the no-hitter. This is a crazy kind of cycle. Can you imagine making your debut and having four hitters do the cycle against you in your first ten major league pitches? Santana is having a nice resurgance this year for the Twins.
May 17th, 1984 – Wiggins was an ex-Dodger farm hand who once stole 120 bases for Lodi in 1980
Padres second baseman Alan Wiggins ties a National League record by stealing five bases in one game in the team’s 5-4 victory over Montreal at Jack Murphy Stadium. Dan McGann (1904), Davey Lopes (1974), and Lonnie Smith (1982) also accomplished the feat in the Senior Circuit.
May 17th, 1978 – hey hey, one of my all time favorites. Maybe this is why:)
Pinch hitting for Davey Lopes in the Los Angeles 10-1 rout of the Pirates, Lee Lacy goes deep in the bottom of the eighth inning off Will McEnaney at Dodger Stadium. The utility player becomes the first player in major league history to homer in three consecutive at bats as a pinch hitter.
Kind of crazy power for a guy who didn’t hit a home run in his first three years in the major leagues.
Ty Blach? Really?
Evidently, I had the wrong impression of Ty Blach. My impression was that the fill-in starter for the Giants was a journeyman left-hander who would get schooled by the Dodgers. The 26-year-old pitcher had been pressed into the Giant rotation when Madison Bumgarner decided his recreational needs were greater than the needs of this team. He had little major league track record success and couldn’t even beat out Matt Cain this spring for the last stating job in the rotation.
Not only was I wrong about Ty Blach but I was also wrong about Matt Cain. The Dodger offense has been so anemic in San Francisco it was like they were facing the old Matt Cain and Madison Bumgarner.
Against these two starters the Dodgers have managed:
13 2/3 IP / 10 Hits / 2 Earned Runs / 5 walks / 9 Strikeouts
Ty Blach has now made five starts in place of Bumgarner and other than the one start against the Reds where he was crushed he has been very good.
The Dodgers have now lost three in a row after getting within 1/2 a game of the Rockies and are now three full games behind the Rockies and are also now in 3rd place.
Might be time for Joc / Justin / Seager / Puig to put on some hitting shoes. Cody Bellinger and Chris Taylor can’t be expected to carry this team. Those May stats I posted on Monday morning have just gotten worse for those four.
Been a while since I have seen a runner on 3rd thrown out at home on a ground ball to a 2nd baseman playing back.
Can Rich Hill break DL losing streak?
So far in 2017, each pitcher that has started for the Dodgers after being on the 10-day DL have lost their first start.
Strangely enough, it started with Rich Hill who had made only start in 2017 before he found his way on the 10-Day-DL. He came back to start on 4/16 and lost 3 – 1 getting all of nine outs while giving up two runs.
Ryu was next in line. He came off the DL just in time to get his second start at Coors. Ryu lost 10 – 7 on 5/11 giving up five earned runs in four innings.
Brandon McCarthy was the 3rd pitcher to give it a shot. He came off the DL yesterday and lost to the Giants 8 – 4 on 5/15 giving up six earned runs in five innings. He wasn’t hit hard but that is baseball.
Ryu and McCarthy had both been coming off superlative starts before hitting the DL.
Hill, on the other hand, is a different blister beast. Hill will need to answer some questions:
- Can he pitch long enough to be effective in the rotation given his blister problems?
- If he alters how he throws the curve so as to minimize the effect on the blister can he also be effective?
- If he throws fewer curves so as to minimize the effect on the blister can he also be effective?
Each starter besides Kershaw is trying to make their case to stay in the rotation. Is this good or bad? To much pressure or maybe the pressure will keep everyone at a high level?
I don’t know but so far, McCarthy and Ryu have both made a case for pitching out of the bullpen. Hopefully, Rich Hill does not make the same case.
Checking in on Mitch White
A few blurbs from national media on Mitch White after his superlative game list night in which he pitching seven innings for the first time in his professional career.
Starting off with Baseball Prospectus:
Mitchell White, RHP, Los Angeles Dodgers (High-A Rancho Cucamonga): 7 IP, ER, 3 H, 8 K
White’s been on a hard pitch count so far, so he hadn’t so much as seen the sixth inning, let alone the seventh. He did last night on account of supreme efficiency, as he recorded 21 outs on just 67 pitches. Visalia has a poor lineup, but White was on point from the jump, surrendering just one hit through six. When that cutter’s cutting he’s as tough as you’ll see at High A, and he’s now given up just seven earned runs in six non-at-Lancaster starts.
Mitchell White, rhp, Dodgers. After a couple of rough outings, White has gotten back in stride. On Monday, the Dodgers’ No. 19 prospect tied a career high with eight strikeouts in seven strong innings as high Class A Rancho Cucamonga beat Visalia 2-1. Fifty-five of Mitchell’s 67 pitches went for strikes—an astonishing 82 percent rate—and he walked none after walking six in his past eight innings.
Font for fifteen
Wilmer Font struck out fifteen hitters tonight en route to the most dominant game I think the Oklahoma Dodgers have ever had. This is what I know about Wilmer Font.
- He’s a pitcher in AAA for the Oklahoma Dodgers
- I have never heard he’s a prospect
- His name gives some Dodger bloggers much fun on twitter
- His first name sounds like someone who owns an old truck and may be missing some teeth
I suspect after tonight I’ll learn quite a bit more when I get deluged with Wilmer Font information.
Oklahoma City coach Matt Herges was almost brought to tears by @Dodgers righty Wilmer Font’s record-setting outing. https://t.co/11e1Jy4MKm pic.twitter.com/G1OuBf1xb8
— MiLB.com (@MiLB) May 16, 2017
As expected Baseball America checked in today:
Wilmer Font, rhp, Dodgers. The 6-foot-4, 265-pound Font has a career walk rate of 4.19 batters per nine innings. In the past two years, however Font has found his command. That was on full display Monday when Font took a perfect game into the seventh and set a Triple-A Oklahoma City record with 15 strikeouts in a 6-4 win over Sacramento (Giants). Font ended up allowing just two hits and a run and he walked just one. In his past four starts, Font has struck out 37 and walked just two and for the season he has struck out 63 and walked nine in 42 innings. Font has a fastball he can push to the upper-90s, but an improved splitter has been the key to his success.
Trayce Thompson hit a home run and is showing signs of life. A few days ago Thompson and Ike Davis were both hitting below .100, and they are both now between .150 and .190 so things are looking up for the hitters who were in dreadful slumps to start the season.
Kyle Farmer fresh off his Texas League POTW went zero for five and Andy Sopko couldn’t get out of the first inning.
Mitch White showed Yadier Alvarez what a top pitching prospect line is supposed to look like. 7 IP, 3 Hits, 1 Earned Run, 0 Walks, 8 K’s. The twenty-one outs by White were six more than he had ever gotten in a game before.
OTDIB – May 16th – The Shaggy one drives in eight
On this date in baseball May 16th
May 16th, 2008 – Ex-Dodger Jayson Werth drives in eight runs
Jayson Werth ties the Phillies’ single-game RBI record when he drives in eight runs in Philadelphia’s 10-3 win over Toronto. The 28 year-old center fielder, who equals the franchise mark shared Kitty Bransfeld (1910), Gavvy Cravath (1915), Willie Jones (1958), and Mike Schmidt (1976), accomplishes the feat with three home runs in team’s 10-3 victory over Toronto in the friendly confines of Citizens Bank Park.
When the clean-cut Jayson Werth patrolled left field for the Dodgers my wife swooned over him. When he was cut loose by Ned and ended up a Phillie he grew one of the early beards that now dominate baseball and she hates beards thus ending her relationship with the shaggy one. Werth was one of Depo’s best moves, and one of Ned’s worst.
May 16th, 2000 – Cubs fan starts a brouhaha by stealing a Dodger hat
After a fan steals Los Angeles’ catcher Chad Kreuter’s hat and hits him in the back of the head, many Dodgers, including coaches John Shelby and Rick Dempsey, go into the stands and start fighting with the Wrigley Field faithful. When the melee ends, several fans are arrested as the game is delayed nearly ten minutes, and there is litter all over the field.
May 16th, 1970 – Manny Mota foul ball kills first MLB fan hit by batted ball
During a game against the Giants at Dodger Stadium, Alan Fish, sitting with friends from the Poinsettia Playground in the second row seats along the first base line, is struck in the head by a foul ball off the bat of Manny Mota. The 14 year-old boy will die four days later to become the first fatality as a result of a batted ball in major league history.
Damn, this must have happened just days before I moved to Los Angeles. I have zero recollection of this but it had to have been a big deal at the time. Every time I go to a game and I’m with someone I comment on how shocked I am that more fans aren’t seriously hurt at baseball games.
Updated May Stats
Record: 22 – 16
Position: 2nd place, 1.5 games back of the Colorado Rockies
Dodgers in May so far:
Hitters:
Rk Player Split Year OPS PA R H HR RBI BB SO OBP SLG 1 Brett Eibner May 2017 1.500 6 2 2 1 2 1 1 .500 1.000 2 Franklin Gutierrez May 2017 1.189 13 4 4 1 2 2 4 .462 .727 3 Cody Bellinger May 2017 1.157 54 14 16 5 17 6 16 .407 .750 4 Austin Barnes May 2017 1.143 18 3 5 0 3 4 2 .500 .643 5 Scott Van Slyke May 2017 1.133 6 1 1 1 1 1 0 .333 .800 6 Yasmani Grandal May 2017 1.088 37 4 15 1 10 2 6 .459 .629 7 Chase Utley May 2017 .918 29 1 8 0 5 3 8 .379 .538 8 Enrique Hernandez May 2017 .900 21 4 4 0 4 4 5 .400 .500 9 Chris Taylor May 2017 .852 47 10 11 1 7 10 11 .447 .405 10 Andrew Toles May 2017 .825 26 5 9 0 2 1 4 .385 .440 11 Yasiel Puig May 2017 .717 48 9 13 2 7 1 12 .292 .426 12 Corey Seager May 2017 .664 53 8 10 1 4 5 9 .302 .362 13 Justin Turner May 2017 .658 51 6 11 0 5 6 10 .373 .286 14 Joc Pederson May 2017 .643 35 5 7 0 3 3 6 .343 .300 16 Adrian Gonzalez May 2017 .444 9 0 2 0 1 0 3 .222 .222
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Bellinger, Grandal, Taylor and Chase are leading the way with nice contributions from bench players Barnes / Hernandez. Seager, Turner, Puig and Joc are are slumbering. Adrian is resting. Toles is done.
Pitchers:
Player Split SO W L ERA GS IP H ER HR SO9 SO/W Clayton Kershaw May 18 2 1 2.66 3 20.1 20 6 3 8.0 3.60 Alex Wood May 29 3 0 2.25 3 16.0 14 4 0 16.3 9.67 Julio Urias May 7 0 1 4.11 3 15.1 12 7 1 4.1 1.00 Kenta Maeda May 13 1 0 2.03 2 13.1 8 3 1 8.8 4.33 Josh Fields May 7 0 0 0.00 0 7.1 4 0 0 8.6 3.50 Ross Stripling May 11 0 0 2.70 0 6.2 6 2 0 14.9 5.50 Chris Hatcher May 8 0 0 3.38 0 5.1 8 2 1 13.5 Pedro Baez May 4 0 0 1.69 0 5.1 4 1 1 6.8 1.33 Kenley Jansen May 11 1 0 0.00 0 5.0 3 0 0 19.8 Sergio Romo May 5 1 0 4.50 0 4.0 2 2 1 11.3 5.00 Hyun-Jin Ryu May 4 0 1 11.25 1 4.0 8 5 0 9.0 0.67 Grant Dayton May 3 0 1 9.00 0 3.0 3 3 0 9.0 1.50 Luis Avilan May 4 0 0 0.00 0 2.1 3 0 0 15.4 2.00 Adam Liberatore May 1 0 0 0.00 0 1.0 0 0 0 9.0
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Wood has been so good I’m left wondering if he can give Clayton a good run for pitcher of the month in May.
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