True Blue LA - September 8: Rockies 5, Dodgers 4Where The Dodger Dogs Are Always Grilledhttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/49563/truebluela_fav.png2017-09-09T00:08:50-07:00http://www.truebluela.com/rss/stream/160416752017-09-09T00:08:50-07:002017-09-09T00:08:50-07:00Darvish exits early again, reaches 1,000 K
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<p id="qcm7vx">LOS ANGELES — <span>Yu Darvish</span> reached a milestone on Friday night, but his start against the <a href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a> was cut short thanks to a fifth-inning rally that included four doubles.</p>
<p id="YIPBd5">Six days after the shortest start of his career, Darvish had things working early on. He allowed a solo home run to <span>Carlos Gonzalez</span> in the first inning, but allowed no more hits through four innings, and struck out six of his first 12 batters faced.</p>
<p id="Jqvm61">His strikeout of Gonzalez in the fourth inning was the 1,000th of his career, making Darvish <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/leaders/SO_p_career.shtml">the 501st player in major league history to reach the milestone</a>. </p>
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<p id="cbIh5U">With 128 career games and 812 innings (at the time of his 1,000th strikeout), Darvish is the fastest pitcher in major league history to reach quadruple digits. </p>
<p id="wJ93Fu">“We want to win, and I wanted to go deep in the game. Those are the goals I had today,” Darvish said. “A couple guys came in and congratulated me, and that was great, but that wasn’t my goal today.”</p>
<aside id="dzmVjD"><div data-anthem-component="readmore" data-anthem-component-data='{"stories":[{"title":"Dodgers can’t finish what they started","url":"https://www.truebluela.com/2017/9/8/16279490/dodgers-great-start-poor-finish-8-straight-losses-rockies-recap"}]}'></div></aside><p id="EMH3oO">Colorado erased a three-run deficit in the fifth inning thanks to four doubles and a walk, knocking Darvish out after just 4⅓ innings. </p>
<p id="yfaInG">“Those last couple of outings, when I was pitching I was constantly thinking about by mechanics,” Darvish said. “Tonight it wasn’t about mechanics, I was just getting behind in the count.”</p>
<p id="cQ4TSn">Manager Dave Roberts used the familiar refrain of soft contact and that had a few more plays been made, Darvish might have lasted longer. But that didn’t help end the <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a>’ losing streak on Friday.</p>
<p id="dliLrc">“If you look at the body of work and the quality of contact, I thought Yu threw the baseball very well,” Roberts said.</p>
<p id="Aqbc9K">Darvish has allowed 16 runs on 27 hits in 18⅓ innings in his last four starts.</p>
<p id="FokcVP">“It’s important for him to not be results-driven. He wants results really bad, and that’s natural,” Roberts said. “The pitch execution was considerably better than it has been.”</p>
<p id="G8XOMt">The Dodgers have lost 13 of 14 games.</p>
<p id="SpgKIj">“In the first couple weeks when I joined the team, the team was playing really good baseball. I was like, ‘Wow, everything we do is working’,” Darvish said. “Right now we’re on the opposite side. </p>
<p id="srHTZr">“The team is not playing well. But the team is working hard. It amazes me how hard they work to win. That shows me we’re a good team, because we never give up, and keep fighting.”</p>
<h3 id="Y5Zj92">Booing Baez</h3>
<p id="vlveNN"><span>Pedro Baez</span> has struggled mightily of late, retiring two batters while allowing seven runs (five earned) in his previous three outings combined. Rather than wait for his Friday performance to commence, the Dodger Stadium crowd was all over Baez as soon as he jogged in from the bullpen to open the sixth inning, showering him with boos before he even threw a pitch. </p>
<p id="wcenAH">That welcome did not sit well with Roberts.</p>
<p id="IWX0W0">“As passionate and knowledgeable as our fans are, it’s irresponsible and it’s ridiculous that this guy who grew up a Dodger, who does nothing but compete and is continuing to grow, and he’s got a two and a half [ERA], and he gets booed at home,” Roberts said. “That’s something that really pissed me off tonight. This guy is grinding and trying to find his way through things, and has done a lot of good things for us, and pitched big innings.”</p>
<p id="e4E6a4">It looked like a self-fulfilling prophecy at first when Baez ran the count to <span>Ian Desmond</span> to 3-0 and eventually walked him. Then Desmond stole second base. But Baez recovered to strike out the next three batters in succession, and was cheered like a hero as he walked off the mound.</p>
<p id="DIVAKb">“I thought his response was outstanding,” Roberts added.</p>
<h3 id="qFjK6p">Up next</h3>
<p id="fKYKov"><span>Alex Wood</span> takes the hill on Saturday night, a 6:10 p.m. PT start, with <span>Chad Bettis</span> pitching for the Rockies.</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2017/9/9/16279496/yu-darvish-early-exit-1000-strikeoutsEric Stephen2017-09-08T22:44:17-07:002017-09-08T22:44:17-07:00Dodgers can’t finish what they started
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<p id="iFZdTl">LOS ANGELES — The <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> were able to break out of their offensive funk, but only briefly. They stopped scoring after an early outburst, and the <a href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a> seized the opportunity, rallying for a 5-4 win on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium.</p>
<p id="nViI56">The Dodgers have now lost eight straight and 13 out of their last 14 games.</p>
<p id="6ZVsAv">After two weeks of bad baseball and offensive futility, the Dodgers broke out with a crooked number in the first inning against Rockies starter <span>German Marquez</span>, their <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/2017/9/8/16278808/dodgers-offense-first-inning-drought">first multiple-run first inning in 27 games</a>.</p>
<p id="CfhAsD"><span>Justin Turner</span> hit a two-run home run, and <span>Austin Barnes</span> hit a two-run single, and the hungry Dodger Stadium crowd, yearning for something — <em>anything</em> — to cheer for, exploded after both run-scoring hits as if this was a playoff game.</p>
<p id="N1N4Ko">Those four runs in the first inning matched the Dodgers’ total output of the previous four games.</p>
<p id="nWGaoW">The early 4-1 lead didn’t last, with the Rockies hitting four doubles in the fifth inning to plate four runs and take a 5-4 lead. That knocked <span>Yu Darvish</span> out the game early, and coupled with Marquez lasting only four innings this became a battle of the bullpens.</p>
<p id="rxbN8S">The Dodgers’ bullpen was up to the task, with <span>Tony Watson</span> wiggling out of the jam in the fifth, followed by scoreless innings by <span>Pedro Baez</span> — more on him shortly — <span>Tony Cingrani</span>, <span>Ross Stripling</span> and <span>Josh Fields</span>. That quintet combined to strike out eight while allowing just three to reach base in 4⅔ innings, and one was an intentional walk.</p>
<p id="wfqeHv">Cingrani in the seventh inning struck out left-handed batters <span>Charlie Blackmon</span> and <span>Carlos Gonzalez</span>, and since joining the Dodgers at the trade deadline has throttled lefties to the tune of 1-for-17 (.059) with 10 strikeouts and no walks.</p>
<p id="xUiuUx">On offense the Dodgers had more chances to score, putting runners on base in every inning but the ninth, including a pair in scoring position with one out in the fourth. But they couldn’t push across another run after the first, stranding 10 runners on base on the night.</p>
<h3 id="nXMtm7">Zoning in</h3>
<p id="oP0F6H">The Dodgers lead the majors in walks (562) as well as walk rate (10.4 percent), but of late the free passes haven’t been flowing. During the club’s stretch of 13 losses in 14 games, the Dodgers walked just 32 times, with a walk rate of 7.5 percent. </p>
<p id="1pfqLG">The four-run first inning was extended by a two-out walk from <span>Joc Pederson</span>, who eventually scored on Barnes’ single.</p>
<p id="yxTG0i">“When we’re at our best as an offense, we’re aggressive in the strike zone, and balls that are out of the zone we’re taking, and we’re taking walks,” manager <span>Dave Roberts</span> said. “We’re not walking as much as we normally do when we’re good. When you’re getting pitchers out of the strike zone, and getting traffic, you have a better chance to score runs.”</p>
<p id="QcrAch">The Dodgers walked six times on Friday. Only one scored.</p>
<h3 id="k4m9H4">Silver lining</h3>
<p id="eyulXR">Though the Dodgers lost, again, Friday night wasn’t a total loss for the team. The <a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a> proved to be human, dropping a game to the <a href="https://www.gaslampball.com/">Padres</a>, 10-6 in Arizona. That knocked the Dodgers’ magic number down to 12 to clinch the National League West, the first day that number has lowered since Aug. 25.</p>
<p id="Pkmf4M">LA leads Arizona by 10 games in the division, with 21 left to play.</p>
<h3 id="L9s5nr">Friday particulars</h3>
<p id="hZ95t8"><strong>Home runs</strong>: Justin Turner (19); <span>Carlos Gonzalez</span> (10)</p>
<p id="BeR0Dt"><strong>WP - </strong><span><strong>Chris Rusin</strong></span><strong> (5-0)</strong>: 2 IP, 1 hit, 1 walk, 3 strikeouts</p>
<p id="xz4ijT"><strong>LP - Yu Darvish (8-12)</strong>: 4⅓ IP, 5 hits, 4 runs, 2 walks, 6 strikeouts</p>
<p id="rgg7sO"><strong>Sv - </strong><span><strong>Greg Holland</strong></span><strong> (38)</strong>: 1 IP, 1 strikeout</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2017/9/8/16279490/dodgers-great-start-poor-finish-8-straight-losses-rockies-recapEric Stephen2017-09-08T18:02:47-07:002017-09-08T18:02:47-07:00McCarthy, Kazmir to rehab with Quakes in playoffs
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<p id="rKUUPC">LOS ANGELES -- Perusing the <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> disabled list, there are a pair of pitchers working their way back to varying degrees, and a pair of players whose 2017 seasons have concluded.</p>
<p id="Z9wfVT"><span>Brandon McCarthy</span> starts for Class-A Rancho Cucamonga on Friday night, in Game 3 of the Quakes’ first-round California League playoff series, tied 1-1. McCarthy is expected to pitch five innings in his third rehab start, looking to rebound from blister issues that have sidelined him since late July.</p>
<p id="sVnkqX"><span>Scott Kazmir</span> hasn’t pitched in the majors all season with a hip injury, and will pitch in relief for Rancho Cucamonga on Saturday, expected to pitch three innings in relief. He pitched three scoreless innings on Monday for the Quakes in their regular season finale.</p>
<p id="fXwGUV">Both pitchers are on the 60-day disabled list, and would require a corresponding transaction to rejoin the active roster. Manager Dave Roberts didn’t rule out either or both pitching in the majors this season, though it does seem like a long shot.</p>
<p id="vjxHlP">“To give Brandon another opportunity to figure something out and compete is a good thing,” Roberts said. “After those two appearances, we’ll see what we have in those two guys.”</p>
<p id="eJtzNw">McCarthy wouldn’t be eligible to return until Sept. 19, after his 60 days are up. If Kazmir is activated, it wouldn’t be for any sort of playoff audition.</p>
<p id="oXfzE9">“For Kaz, it’s been a trying year for him with health. For him to have an opportunity to finish his season on a high note, that’s a good thing and I applaud him for wanting to see it through,” Kazmir said. “But I don’t see him on a playoff roster.”</p>
<h3 id="3RZ2pv">Seasons over</h3>
<p id="tiU5Ae"><span>Adam Liberatore</span>, out with a left forearm strain since May 30, pitched in four minor league rehab games, but hasn’t pitched since Friday. He didn’t suffer a setback, Roberts said, but the left-hander was shut down for the rest of the year.</p>
<p id="sTVDuq">“After his last outing, it didn’t feel justified in coming off the disabled list. That’s his season,” Roberts said. “We expect him to come back next spring to compete for a job.”</p>
<p id="ltIWOX"><span>Liberatore</span> pitched in four major league games this season, allowing a run in 3⅓ innings, with five strikeouts and two walks.</p>
<p id="gQFwGU"><span>Franklin Gutierrez</span> is in a similar boat. The outfielder last played on June 24, out with ankylosis spondylitis, a condition that affects his immune system and that has plagued him in recent years. Like Liberatore, Gutierrez is on the 60-day DL.</p>
<p id="9nety7">“Franklin is around mentoring his teammates and he wants to be around,” Roberts said. “He won’t be activated this season.”</p>
<p id="z288aw">Gutierrez appeared in 35 games this season, starting 14. He hit .232/.317/.339 with one home run and three doubles in 63 plate appearances.</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2017/9/8/16279320/brandon-mccarthy-scott-kazmir-franklin-gutierrez-adam-liberatore-dodgers-disabled-list-rehabEric Stephen2017-09-08T15:25:38-07:002017-09-08T15:25:38-07:00Early offense lacking for Dodgers
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<p id="xwiUeH">LOS ANGELES — The <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> will take any offense they can get at this point, and the return of <span>Corey Seager</span> at shortstop might help in one specific department.</p>
<p id="BAgz5B">The Dodgers haven’t scored multiple runs in the first inning since Aug. 10 at Chase Field. They scored three runs on that night in a win over the <a href="https://www.azsnakepit.com/">Diamondbacks</a>, before Arizona decided to never lose again.</p>
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<p id="FrXLnJ">But in 26 games since, the Dodgers have scored six total runs in the first inning, single tallies in six different games.</p>
<p id="7BKQQu">On the season, the Dodgers have scored 76 runs in the first, their third highest-scoring inning, behind only the sixth (90 runs) and fourth (88) frames.</p>
<p id="P3vNLN">Seager is back batting second, and <span>Justin Turner</span> is batting third after getting a day off on Thursday. Add in <span>Cody Bellinger</span> at cleanup — the first time Bellinger and Seager have been in the same lineup since Aug. 19 — and the Dodgers have a chance to put up some early offense for a change.</p>
<p id="Lp8Mm5">But whenever they score, any runs would be welcome, for a team that has scored just three times in their last four games.</p>
<p id="gRTH9y">In their current 1-12 skid, the Dodgers have been outscored in the first inning 16-3, with their opponent scoring in the first inning in seven of 13 games.</p>
<p id="I0jB7s">Seager this season is hitting .382/.452/.627 with six home runs and seven doubles in the first inning. Turner is hitting .333/.406/.495 with three home runs and six doubles in the opening frame.</p>
<p id="97U6z4">Joc Pederson gets his third straight start in center field, and with the recent spate of opposing right-handed starters, Austin Barnes gets a start at catcher, his 11th start against a right-hander this season.</p>
<p id="ScYdCX">“I love Austin behind the plate,” manager Dave Roberts said. “It’s more Austin’s at-bat quality has been good versus right, and versus left. And I felt Yasmani needed a day off.”</p>
<p id="WhO9Fg">Barnes has started 33 games against left-handed pitchers, including the last nine straight and 14 of the last 16 against southpaws.</p>
<p id="dUrKkz">“It’s nice when you have two guys behind the plate that regardless of the handedness you feel very comfortable, and regardless of who’s pitching that the chemistry works,” Roberts said. “Now essentially not only using Austin as the guy that plays in day games after a night game, that you can run him out there against anyone, that’s a good thing.”</p>
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https://www.truebluela.com/2017/9/8/16278808/dodgers-offense-first-inning-droughtEric Stephen2017-09-08T11:43:20-07:002017-09-08T11:43:20-07:00Dodgers looking for spark with Seager’s return
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<p>Last started on Aug. 27</p> <p id="MkqZBo">LOS ANGELES -- Nothing will make a team look worse than when it isn’t hitting. Except maybe when the pitching staff struggles to get outs. The <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> are caught in a vortex of both extremes right now, and the results have been putrid. They try to climb out from under the rubble on Friday night against the <a href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a>.</p>
<p id="iByNyD">The Dodgers have scored three runs in their last four games, the streak of four straight games with no more than one run tied for <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/tiny/AnQaK">the fifth-longest since moving to Los Angeles in 1958</a>. The longest was a six-game skid by the 1984 club, including appearances by German Rivera, Bob Bailor, Ed Amelung and the like.</p>
<p id="cYP5oI">There were five-game streaks in 1968 (The “year of the pitcher” in MLB), 2003 (Arguably the worst Dodgers offense in team history), and in 2015 as well.</p>
<p id="hMuO6i">During the Dodgers’ 1-12 stretch, they have scored 28 runs, an average of just 2.15 per game. They are hitting .195/.261/.306 during that stretch, which isn’t too far off what opponents are hitting against <span>Clayton Kershaw</span> this season (.198/.235/.340).</p>
<p id="fQ3v8d">The club has allowed 74 runs during that time, an average of 5.69 per game. Opponents are hitting .266/.343/.473, essentially what <span>Yasiel Puig</span> has done all season (.257/.346/.476). Starting pitchers have a 6.02 ERA in the last 13 games, and the bullpen has a 5.33 mark.</p>
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<p id="eeF3RF">“It’s bad right now, there’s no getting around that,” Kershaw said after his start on Thursday night, his first loss since May 1.</p>
<p id="vJzeCl">The Dodgers’ run differential was +223 after play on Aug. 25, tops in baseball by 58 runs (over the <a href="https://www.crawfishboxes.com/">Astros</a>). Now, the run differential is down to +177, second in MLB and 22 runs behind the hard-charging <a href="https://www.letsgotribe.com/">Indians</a>.</p>
<p id="7x5m8q">The offense, at least, gets a big cog back on Friday night, with <span>Corey Seager</span> expecting to return after nursing a sore elbow for the better part of two weeks. His last start was Aug. 27, and has been limited to pinch-hitting duty in the last 11 games.</p>
<p id="LRCVv4">He was 1-for-5.</p>
<p id="0ubuSO">Seager had a 15-game hitting streak before he was sidelined. He hit .348 (23-for-66) during the streak, but also has just one extra-base hit — a double — in his last 87 plate appearances, dating back to Aug. 6.</p>
<p id="KrRGxk">Getting a healthy and productive Seager back in the lineup will help, but much like <span>Cody Bellinger</span> just his return won’t be a cure-all solution. The rest of the lineup will need to produce as well.</p>
<p id="vwPHIQ">“Those other seven guys still have to put forth good at-bats and find a way to get hits. We’re better in the lineup, but once those guys are in the batters box, Corey’s not in the batters box with them,” manager <span>Dave Roberts</span> said. “We as an offensive unit have to continue to grind and get better, and that’s the goal”</p>
<h3 id="rsXLpM">Game info</h3>
<p id="pcf20f">Time: 7:10 p.m. PT</p>
<p id="XJ0HFO">TV: SportsNet LA</p>
https://www.truebluela.com/2017/9/8/16276856/corey-seager-back-dodgers-offense-rockies-previewEric Stephen2017-09-08T11:42:40-07:002017-09-08T11:42:40-07:00Dodger Stadium home records good and bad
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<p id="dwJ660">The <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> have a unique opportunity given their current free fall combined with their ridiculously strong four-month stretch.</p>
<p id="7lmNis">There are nine regular season home games left this season at Dodger Stadium, and the club is 52-20 at home. That’s still the best home record in baseball, even though the last six at Chavez Ravine have been Dodgers losses.</p>
<p id="ixkmMs">Since opening in 1962, the Dodgers’ best home record in a season was in 2015, when they finished 55-26 (.679). This year’s club needs four wins to eclipse that mark, which given the current state of play might seem like a tall task, even with 10 games left in the home whites.</p>
<p id="60Dtkr">But it’s possible, as is the longest home losing streak at Dodger Stadium.</p>
<p id="dxqAbB"><em>That</em> record is <a href="https://www.baseball-reference.com/tiny/05ClP">nine straight losses,</a> from Aug. 13 to Sept. 5, 1987, a team that would lose 89 games for a second consecutive season, leading to a dramatic overhaul in the offseason that would bring the Dodgers a World Series win the next season, a postseason run the franchise has been chasing ever since.</p>
<p id="mvRWbx">In 2017, the Dodgers haven’t been doing much chasing. They have been the ones chased for quite some time, though after sprinting out to a big lead they appear to be in cool down mode at the moment, walking this lap while eating a sandwich and watching objects in their rear view mirror get larger and larger.</p>
<p id="wwFra5">It is still possible for the Dodgers to set both club records, their longest losing streak at Dodger Stadium and their best home record since the stadium opened 55 years ago. In a weird season, that might be the most bizarre thing of all.</p>
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<p id="gJagkb">LOS ANGELES — The <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/">Dodgers</a> conclude their homestand with a four-game weekend series against the <a href="https://www.purplerow.com/">Rockies</a> at Dodger Stadium. Here is a look at the series schedule and the pitching matchups for all four games.</p>
<h3 id="8dWkL7">Thursday, 7:10 p.m. PT (SportsNet LA, MLB Network)</h3>
<p id="n4ZiP0">The Dodgers have won Clayton Kershaw’s last 16 starts, dating back to May 6. <span>Jon Gray</span> has allowed three or fewer runs in eight straight starts, with a 2.98 ERA, 47 strikeouts and 12 walks in 48⅓ innings during that span.</p>
<h3 id="kqwT6i">Friday, 7:10 p.m. (SportsNet LA)</h3>
<p id="cl6VxB"><span>Yu Darvish</span> continues his process to revert to his old delivery, trying to snap a two-game losing streak during which he has allowed eight runs in eight innings. <span>German Marquez</span> has 67 strikeouts and just 15 walks in 61 innings since the All-Star break, with a 4.13 ERA in 10 starts.</p>
<h3 id="CyES14">Saturday, 6:10 p.m. (SportsNet LA)</h3>
<p id="MV9P36"><span>Alex Wood</span> has allowed one run in 12 innings in two starts against the Rockies this season, with 17 strikeouts and three walks. Since pitching seven scoreless innings in his triumphant return from beating cancer, <span>Chad Bettis</span> has allowed 16 runs in 22⅓ innings, including seven home runs allowed in his last four starts.</p>
<h3 id="nkoutS">Sunday, 1:10 p.m. (SportsNet LA, TBS)</h3>
<p id="e1CI6i"><span>Rich Hill</span> in his last eight home starts has a 2.44 ERA with 58 strikeouts and 16 walks in 48 innings. Colorado has not yet announced their starter for Sunday’s series finale.</p>
<p id="zBNNyL">The TBS broadcast <a href="https://www.truebluela.com/2017/8/30/16227832/dodgers-rockies-sept-10-tbs-tv-schedule">will be available in the Los Angeles market</a>.</p>
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