Goodness gracious! There are so many story lines from last night's game. I could rattle off about the fantastic start by Mike Bolsinger; who went 5.2 innings, gave up five hits, a lone home run and struck out three. Via an AP story at ESPN:
"I just tried to put myself in a good position to stay up here," Bolsinger said. "I didn't have my fastball command that I wanted so I just threw a lot of curveballs and sliders and was able to get some groundouts."Or, how about that home run Bolsinger gave up to Mike Stanton that cleared Dodger Stadium - only the fifth time that's ever been done. Via Mark Saxon at ESPNLosAngeles.com:
"That's the hardest ball I've ever seen hit against me … well, I take that back. His last ball he hit against me was probably the hardest ball," Bolsinger said. "You've got to just look back and go, ‘That's awesome,' and just go on with the game."Then there's the offensive explosion that saw the team record 21 hits to earn the Dodgers 22nd win of the season. Via Joe Frisaro and Ken Gurnick at MLB.com:
"We did a good job forcing [Haren] to throw the ball in the strike zone and kept the pressure on him," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. "We did a good job of passing the baton."But I am really enjoying the recent resurgence of the once-maligned outfielder Andre Either. He is proving his naysayers wrong by showing that he still has something left in the tank. Via Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider:
Ethier pushed his 2015 OPS to 1.021 and has six consecutive hits dating back to Monday. Ethier holds the Los Angeles Dodger record (and is tied for the all-time franchise mark) with 10 consecutive hits in August 2012.Photo above via Jon SooHoo/LA Dodgers 2015. Go here to check out more photos of yesterday's game from Jon. Below are some links to check out:
“It’s a good feeling,” Ethier said. “You’re doing what you want to do — every at-bat, you want to get a hit. But more importantly, it’s just keeping this thing going and building off that momentum from last night.”
- What's better than a Dodger story told by Vin Scully? How about a story told by Vin about the great Satchel Paige. Watch it here via Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider.
- Via Eno Sarris at FanGraphs, "Justin Turner, Marlon Byrd, and an Education in Hitting."
After years of hearing about letting the ball travel deep in the zone, and giving the ball time, and staying back, Turner didn’t quite take to the advice right away. He challenged Byrd, but Byrd got him right back. “Pull up your film from all the balls that you’ve driven, and look where your contact point was,” the outfielder told the infielder. “Even though I thought I was backing the ball up, when I looked at the balls I was driving, they were out in front of the plate,” Turner admitted. “It really started making sense.”
- Yeoman's work. Redditor r/siber222000 translated a recent Korean article that includes an interview with Hyun-Jin Ryu regarding his recent shutdown. Check it out here.
Q. Was it because of the pain? or was it because of the decline in fastball speed?
-It was more of an extended stiffness that lasted couple of days rather than pain which caused a bit of decline in my fastball. The second bullpen session was more uncomfortable than the first bullpen session (which he threw 25 fastballs).
- Via Ken Gurnick at MLB.com, "Puig's rehab stopped after setback." Oy Vey!
"I don't know about it starting all the way over," Mattingly said. "It wasn't necessarily good news, but I don't feel we're starting all the way over. The MRI shows a strain and we know there is one."
- Wow! This is fantastic. John Thorn, MLB's official historian, is sharing photos from an 1880 book about the Worcester Base Ball Club's season that includes cartoon-like engravings. It is from the only copy known to exist, and has never been reproduced or shared with the public before. Check it out here. Below is my favorite.
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