Carlos Gonzalez lined into an unassisted double play at first base, where DJ LeMahieu was doubled off to end the inning.
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Colorado Rockies right-hander Jon Gray is emerging as a bona fide ace and he attempts to back up the best effort of his young career when he faces the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday in the second contest of a four-game set.
“To kind of show respect to him, for what he’s done for a long time”, Dodgers pitcher Joe Blanton said. But Grandal battled back to even the count, then sent a 93-mph fastball 408 feet into the gloaming for a grand slam. Were you among the crowd that groaned at one of my puns?
First pitch is scheduled for 7:20 tonight.
In 130 games this season, Chase Utley is hitting.253 with 12 home runs and an OPS of.706. No Dodger catcher has hit that many since Mike Piazza in 1997, and no one who claims catcher as his primary position has hit that many this year.
Grandal hit a solo shot in the second for the sixth homer given up by Chatwood in his last four games. He’s had six doubles in 14 games since September 9.
“When I was seven years old growing up in NY, I listened to Vin on the radio and the first time I heard him I said, ‘That’s what I want to be when I grow up, ‘ and here we are all these years later”, Steiner said. “Most of it was (chasing) balls out of the zone”. The 88-year-old Scully is retiring next weekend after Los Angeles concludes its regular season in San Francisco. They lead the division by six games with nine to play. Utley was later removed in the seventh inning in favor of a pinch hitter. He then walked Adrian Gonzalez, forcing in a run and leaving the Dodgers trailing 4-3. He is 2-2 with a 3.38 ERA in five career starts against the Dodgers. “We’re going to heat up those talks”.
Making his first start since August 20, Brett Anderson gave up four runs and six hits in five innings. So I stood in line behind Dodgers players, their wives, mothers, their infant children who’d come to the television booth – the shrine five flights above the field at Dodger Stadium.
“I was walking guys and I wasn’t getting my first pitch in for a strike”, Logan said. “He sinker was working great”.
“My curveball and two-seamer were working well”, Chatwood said.
But Anderson allowed three hits and a walk in the second inning before he recorded an out. Ethier followed with his first homer of the season into the lower right-field seats, extending the Dodgers’ lead to 4-0.
Kirk Gibson and Hank Aaron, who hit home runs that inspired two of Scully’s most memorable calls, each offered a video tribute. He continues to lead the majors with a.349 batting average. It’s doubtful he starts again this season.
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“It’s time for Dodger baseball”, he said in the deliberate cadence that has helped make Scully the most beloved broadcaster of all time.
