Splitting a 4 Game series with the Giants just didn't seem like a thing that could happen. It really doesn't matter that the Giants always look like Disney child actors that outgrew their TV shows. It mattered that they really looked like a bad baseball team in the first two games.
Julio Urias didn't look too sharp. Overall it was a good outing. He gave up only one earned run in 5 innings. If he wants to do that every fifth day I'm sure the almighty Friedman won't be looking for a replacement. He walked three. He threw 78 pitched and 51 of them were strikes. I don't know, maybe it was just that the walks ended up really hurting and maybe it was that a lot of the pitches were nowhere near the zone. Who knows.
The other alarming detail is that The Dodgers sure did look at a lot of first pitch strikes. That was new.
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What is going with the #11? Who remembers the agony of watching a Logan Forsythe plate appearance? Who remembers the unwashed grouch that Josh Reddick was in his short time with The Dodgers? How many letters did they waste putting Erisbel Arruebarrena's name on the back of a #11 jersey. Manny Mota must have run out of middle fingers to give these guys.
Now AJ Pollock goes up there, looks at the ball and refuses to swing. I thought they sent a cardboard cutout to take his place in the batting order.
Well he drove and exquisite double into the gap to leadoff the 9th but a popout, a flyout and a strikeout later left things at 3-1 and the Dodgers with a 2-2 split in their opening series.
So they aren't going to win all 60 but they can still go 58-2 and that would be just fine.
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I think the Astro, Dodger match up was quite satisfying especially the 6th inning. It is only 5 games in during an unprecedented Pandemic. So take it easy, it is going to get better.
GO DODGERS
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