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Art Deco · 08-08-2020, 07:58 PM

Game 1: The baseball world was talking up this 2-game series as a possible World Series preview, and the game itself had a postseason feel as it was tightly played with plenty of drama and a raucous Dodger Stadium crowd. The Rays ended up prevailing 7-4 in 10 innings, so a World Series preview is just fine with me. It was Chris Paddack against Alex Wood and both starters were gone by the 6th inning. Paddack recovered from allowing the first batter he faced, Jeren Kendall, to take him deep and ended with a 5 8 2 2 0 5 line. In fact it was Paddack who got the offense going as the former Padre with hitting experience doubled off Wood in the 3rd and scored when Vidal Brujan doubled him home. Brujan scored on a Meadows groundout to give the Rays a brief lead, but Gavin Lux doubled home Cody Bellinger to tie it. They grabbed the lead back in the 6th when Rafael Devers doubled and scored on a Yusniel Diaz sac fly and made it 4-2 in the 7th when Devers singled in Brujan, who had stolen second. Aaron Ashby got the call in the 6th over TJ McFarland with several lefties in the Dodger lineup and got through it despite a couple of runners, but Jose Alvarado served up Cody Bellinger's 63rd HR of the year to cut it to 4-3. Nick Anderson entered for the 8th, and then he gave up a leadoff homer to Will Smith (the catcher) and we were suddenly tied. Will Smith (the pitcher) struck out the side in the 9th and off to extras we went. Edwin Diaz had mowed down the Rays in the top of the 9th but things went very differently in the tenth against him as Devers went the opposite way inside the LF foul pole for his fourth hit of the game and 25th HR of the season, and then after Keibert singled, Alec Bohm drilled #36 into the LF stands to make it 7-4 and joined Wander, Meadows and Devers in the 100-RBI club with 101. Smith stayed on for a second inning after a reasonable pitch count in the 9th and got the Dodgers in order with one more K for his 3rd win of the season. It was quite the game, and the win keeps their faint record hopes alive as they still need to go 8-2 in the final 10 games to win 117.

Game 2: It looked like the Rays' domination of the Dodgers would continue as Austin Meadows had a 2-run HR and Keibert Ruiz followed suit with one against his old battery mate Walker Buehler to make it 3-0 in the first, but that was as good as it got for them tonight in an 8-3 loss. Max Fried had another ugly outing, going 4 10 7 7 2 4 and giving up HRs to Corey Seager, Josh Bell and Gavin Lux. Shane McClanahan looked his best in quite a while with 2 hitless innings with 3 Ks in relief, but TJ McFarland had to leave with a tired arm that will keep him out 2 weeks and perhaps off the playoff roster. After the rough first inning, Buehler settled in and got some revenge for his pasting in Tropicana Field earlier this year, going 8 7 3 3 1 4. In addition to his home run, Keibert threw out all 3 Dodger runners trying to steal tonight or it could have been worse. Wander had 3 hits including a couple of doubles to break out of his mini-slump but Yusniel Diaz continues cold after being pushed into an everyday role, going 0-4 again today.

Team record: 109-44.

08-08-2020, 07:58 PM	#143
Art Deco Hall Of Famer Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 6,934	September 19-20, 2023: at LA Dodgers (2) Game 1: The baseball world was talking up this 2-game series as a possible World Series preview, and the game itself had a postseason feel as it was tightly played with plenty of drama and a raucous Dodger Stadium crowd. The Rays ended up prevailing 7-4 in 10 innings, so a World Series preview is just fine with me. It was Chris Paddack against Alex Wood and both starters were gone by the 6th inning. Paddack recovered from allowing the first batter he faced, Jeren Kendall, to take him deep and ended with a 5 8 2 2 0 5 line. In fact it was Paddack who got the offense going as the former Padre with hitting experience doubled off Wood in the 3rd and scored when Vidal Brujan doubled him home. Brujan scored on a Meadows groundout to give the Rays a brief lead, but Gavin Lux doubled home Cody Bellinger to tie it. They grabbed the lead back in the 6th when Rafael Devers doubled and scored on a Yusniel Diaz sac fly and made it 4-2 in the 7th when Devers singled in Brujan, who had stolen second. Aaron Ashby got the call in the 6th over TJ McFarland with several lefties in the Dodger lineup and got through it despite a couple of runners, but Jose Alvarado served up Cody Bellinger's 63rd HR of the year to cut it to 4-3. Nick Anderson entered for the 8th, and then he gave up a leadoff homer to Will Smith (the catcher) and we were suddenly tied. Will Smith (the pitcher) struck out the side in the 9th and off to extras we went. Edwin Diaz had mowed down the Rays in the top of the 9th but things went very differently in the tenth against him as Devers went the opposite way inside the LF foul pole for his fourth hit of the game and 25th HR of the season, and then after Keibert singled, Alec Bohm drilled #36 into the LF stands to make it 7-4 and joined Wander, Meadows and Devers in the 100-RBI club with 101. Smith stayed on for a second inning after a reasonable pitch count in the 9th and got the Dodgers in order with one more K for his 3rd win of the season. It was quite the game, and the win keeps their faint record hopes alive as they still need to go 8-2 in the final 10 games to win 117. Game 2: It looked like the Rays' domination of the Dodgers would continue as Austin Meadows had a 2-run HR and Keibert Ruiz followed suit with one against his old battery mate Walker Buehler to make it 3-0 in the first, but that was as good as it got for them tonight in an 8-3 loss. Max Fried had another ugly outing, going 4 10 7 7 2 4 and giving up HRs to Corey Seager, Josh Bell and Gavin Lux. Shane McClanahan looked his best in quite a while with 2 hitless innings with 3 Ks in relief, but TJ McFarland had to leave with a tired arm that will keep him out 2 weeks and perhaps off the playoff roster. After the rough first inning, Buehler settled in and got some revenge for his pasting in Tropicana Field earlier this year, going 8 7 3 3 1 4. In addition to his home run, Keibert threw out all 3 Dodger runners trying to steal tonight or it could have been worse. Wander had 3 hits including a couple of doubles to break out of his mini-slump but Yusniel Diaz continues cold after being pushed into an everyday role, going 0-4 again today. Team record: 109-44. Last edited by Art Deco; 08-08-2020 at 10:14 PM.