Téoscar Hernàndez hits one of two homers in Game 2 of the Cards-Dodgers series.
I have to admit, I’m getting older. And after my long Opening Day at the Ravine, I was none too excited about going up there last night when it looked like it would rain at any minute. I had already printed out my scorecards, so I stayed home and kept score while watching the game with Stephen on Apple TV+. And it was another triumph for Dodger hitting AND pitching, as we beat the Cardinals, 6-3.
We hit 4 home runs (2 by Téoscar Hernàndez alone), and we got a great quality start from Bobby Miller. He went 6 innings, gave up only 2 hits and struck out a career-high 11. Fantastic!
Tonight is Freddie Freeman Bobble Head Night, so I will be going this evening, come rain or just freezing cold. Go Dodgers!
The Opening Day font reminds me of either Disneyland or a graveyard. Weird.
I swear, the new graphics for this season of Dodger baseball make me think management believes the more fonts you use, the more money you’ll make! Holy cow! Not only does every single announcement have, like, 6 different fonts, but the announcement cards for the players use nonstop changing fonts for their numbers. Some of the fonts look like bubblegum, others like they belong on a tombstone. It’s a real mishmosh.
What was not convoluted on this glorious Opening Day was the team’s resolve to kick some Cardinal ass! After Mookie Betts walked, Shohei Ohtani did what he’s getting the big bucks for: he doubled to right field and got the (almost) full house rocking! Unfortunately, our overly cautious third-base coach, Dino Ebel, held Mookie at 3rd (he could easily have scored), and Shohei got doubled up on that base, so he was out. But then Freddie Freeman knocked in Mookie with a beautiful seeing-eye single up the middle, and there was no looking back! The Dodgers took their home opener, 7-1.
What most impressed me, however, was the great pitching we got from starter Tyler Glasnow (an alum of my alma mater, Hart High School) and reliever Ryan Yarbrough, who got a 3-inning save after he and Glasnow kept all the Cardinals except Paul (“I Hate L.A.”) Goldschmidt from getting any hits at all.
It was just a great team effort all the way around, and if it doesn’t start raining soon, we’ll be back at it tonight. A great start to the season!
The view from our new seats in Top Deck 9. It was not my choice to move; the Dodgers management just likes to mess with those of us in the real fans’ section!
We open at home against the St. Louis Cardinals tomorrow at 1:10 p.m.
I could not sleep last night, I was fretting so much about getting to the game on time tomorrow, walking up to the stadium, what I would take to eat, whether I would make it in time for the first pitch. (This year, I am truly going to try to take score at every game I attend.)
Thus far, since Korea, the Dodgers have shown a somewhat lackluster level of energy. They lost that 2nd game — a nearly 4-hour slugfest — to the Padres in Seoul (Game 2: SD 15-LAD 11). I had my DVR set to record for 3½ hours, so I didn’t see the final innings! But I did see the 1st, when our new ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto put the game out of reach by giving up 5 runs almost immediately.
The freeway series was equally underwhelming. We won the first game, but lost the second two. My husband and I went to the games at Dodger Stadium, and it was too cold out there to sit and watch our Boys in Blue play with the enthusiasm of teenagers in detention. I hope they were just saving their strength for tomorrow.
I’m looking forward to another great season! We have a lineup to die for, but unfortunately, our pitching is thus far nothing to write home about. If we don’t have more effective arms on the mound, we might as well not hope for any trophies, just a certificate of participation and a fun time at the ballpark.
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