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Friday Night Highlights

May 4, 2024 //
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Fireworks have mostly been replaced by drone shows, so the crowd was ecstatic to see and hear the old-fashioned, ecologically insensitive aerial explosions, especially after an 11th-inning walkoff!

I love extra innings, but I ABSOLUTELY HATE the “designated runner” rule. It’s so stupid, probably the worst thing that has happened to baseball in the past 100 years! It ruins the experience of wondering when a game could possibly end, and getting an extra “7th-inning stretch.”

I was at that 18-inning World Series game when Max Muncy broke a 2-2 tie with a walkoff homer. That night was something I will never forget. I walked home down a packed Sunset Boulevard with exuberant Dodger fans and sullen Red Sox fans. I made it to a bar just before last call and got home about 2 a.m. It was glorious! (This after getting to the stadium as soon as the gates opened at 4:10.)

A game like that can never ever happen again, unless Major League Baseball comes to its senses and rescinds that stupid-ass rule.

So, last night, we got a couple extra innings, and it was great fun! A good start for Gavin Stone. A perfect inning from reliever Joe Kelly. And a walkoff single by newcomer Andy Pages that scored gimme runner Will Smith. Pages also accounted for four of the Dodgers’ nine hits!

But it wasn’t magical … it wasn’t a night to remember forever!

MY SCORECARDS
GAME 34: Dodgers 4-Braves 3 (11 innings)

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One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

April 18, 2024 //
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This game was more like the Dodgers I expect to see, and Mookie went 5-for-5!

Oh man! It was great to be at a the stadium last night (Tues., April 16), especially after the low-energy Jackie Robinson Day debacle!

Mookie Betts killed with three singles and two doubles. He was on fire! Kyle Hurt made his first start at Dodger Stadium, and did great, getting out of a rocky start in the 1st with no damage on the scoreboard. Then Ryan Yarbrough relieved Hurt and gave up two runs in the 3rd, bringing the score to Dodgers 3-Nationals 2. The following four innings, however, Yarbrough was perfect, while the Dodger offense tacked on two more runs. A really good energy, a major-league-debut base hit for newcomer Andy Pages, and a bomb of a homer from Kiké Hernández. Great night all around, giving me hope for winning the series.

MY SCORECARDS
GAME 20: Dodgers 6-Nationals 2

But, alas, low energy and absent offense plagued the Boys in Blue on Wednesday afternoon, and we lost that one (along with the series) in a 2-0 shutout.

That’s two series in a row that the highest-paid team in baseball has lost to sub-.500 teams. Sure, we have a great lineup, batters out our ears, but with starters on the IL and inconsistent relievers, we are right back where we were last year in the playoffs. Hitting will only take us so far. We need arms, and plenty of them. We need to be able to count on at least one pitcher in the rotation.

GAME 21: Nationals 2-Dodgers 0

On the paper ticket front, I’m still waiting for a call from the Dodgers to see if there’s a way to resolve the issue, other than them holding a gun to my husband’s head to force him to get a smartphone.

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