And in the final days of his decades-long broadcast career, that is saying something.
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Kazmir allowed two hits while tossing just 19 pitches in his first start for the Dodgers since August 22.
The Dodgers second baseman, whose loathed by the Mets faithful, made an incredible defensive play in Thursday night’s game against the Rockies.
“It was the same thing I felt in OKC”, Kazmir said of the intercostal injury.
“That”s how I knew about him: “The Dodgers” bullpen coach, Mark Cresse, Maulding”s boss, was a friend of our family. He hadn’t pitched in a month due to inflammation in his neck. Ross Stripling (5-8) and five other relievers allowed one earned run over the final eight innings, preserving the victory.
“To grind out an at-bat and to click one, to put us ahead with that grand slam – what a night he had”, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. It was just always Vin and Claire, laughing, talking, and when I was lucky, which was often, I would just sit and listen, to an anecdote, a self-effacing joke, a poignant or important nugget of history – and think, how very special a moment in time I’d just experienced. With no time to turn around, Utley flipped a no-look throw behind his back to Gonzalez in time to get Chatwood.
Gray gave up four runs and three hits in four innings.
“I knew from the beginning it would be a tough day with no fastball command”, Gray said. And before I could revise it, our computer system ate the draft and all of my notes, a hard-earned lesson in the importance of backups and hard copies. For a split second he appeared to have it, but he’d missed it and the ball squirted away from him.
Pederson flexed his power on a towering fly ball to right-center on his 24 dinger of the year, and 50th of his career. Ethier followed with a shot into the lower right-field seats. He also connected for a solo home run against Chatwood, giving him a total of 27 for the season. The right-hander struck out 10 and walked three on 106 pitches.
And in yet another bit of good news, the winning rally came off a left-handed pitcher, Rockies reliever Boone Logan, who gave up four runs. “I was just trying to keep us in the game without it”. The Rockies have allowed 13 runs in their last three games and four or more runs in 10 of their last 15 games. “So I spent some time with Maulding, and among the many unprintable stories from a teenager”s days on the road with a major league team in the wild 1980s, he told one about Scully.
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Nolan Arenado hit his NL-leading 40 home run of the season as the Rockies scored their only two runs of the game in the top half of the sixth inning. Carlos Gonzalez lined into an unassisted double play at first base, where DJ LeMahieu was doubled off to end the inning.
