https://www.truebluela.com/dodgers-scores-standings/119393/division-lead-keeps-growing-matchup-against-padres

"How quickly does one get hit in the face with a reality check? Why don’t we ask the San Diego Padres, a team that, when it faced the Dodgers for the first time this season, trailed in the race for the NL West by just half a game? And no, this series didn’t occur so early in the year as to make this point irrelevant—it happened on May 18th, well short of two months ago. Now, as Yoshinobu Yamamoto gets ready for a second straight matchup against the Friars, the Dodgers possess a 14-game lead, one that sounds like a lot, but it’s even bigger when you put it into a certain context.

If the Dodgers were to beat the Padres tonight, their lead over the Padres—who are currently tied with the Diamondbacks for the second spot in the NL West—would represent the second largest lead any team has against any opponent in their own division. As things currently stand, the Padres are much closer to the Rockies and the worst team in baseball (Royals) than they are to the Dodgers—the numbers show that, even if reality often brings much closer games such as Friday’s night one-run win thanks to a Teoscar Hernández grand slam."

Edited July 5Jul 5 by caulfield12

Ho-hum.

106-56 pace at the moment...

Jinxed.

6-1 Lead turns to 7-6 deficit including an overturn at home which could have given Colorado the game.

7-7 to the 11th

Sanzatela at 98-99

First LAD game to extras this season.

Second longest such streak in mlb history.

Ohtani finally tied Murakami with 20 homers each...

Roughly the same ops numbers as well.

Seemed like he was hoping to add a Cy to his trophy case this season, but I guess it will have to wait

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/articles/dodgers-being-urged-not-let-165843030.html

Almost certainly nothing, but man can you imagine if that caused an injury?

27 minutes ago, Autumn Dreamin said:

Almost certainly nothing, but man can you imagine if that caused an injury?

Alex Call to the gulag

https://sports.yahoo.com/collectibles/article/rare-1-of-1-shohei-ohtani-autographed-card-sells-for-10-million-after-being-found-by-collector-in-florida-trading-card-shop-182231353.html

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/shohei-ohtani-resumes-throwing-after-2-week-shutdown-hopes-to-progress-enough-to-pitch-before-regular-season-ends-145756448.html

Skubal with era so far

6 ER 11.66 ip

4.63 era

out of game trailing KC 3-2 after just 5 ip and almost 100 pitches

Edited Tuesday at 03:41 AM3 days by caulfield12

https://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/article/even-with-tarik-skubal-the-dodgers-look-very-beatable-051832504.html

Dodgers have blown yet another late lead

Had been leading KC 3-1 into 8th

Now trailing 4-3

Mostly Evan Phillips then Dreyer the weak links

Betts ties up 4-4 in bot 8

Henriquez in

Padres Phillies DBacks +7

all 64-57

Edited Wednesday at 04:38 AM2 days by caulfield12

Note to Royals:

don't want Kyle Tucker to face Max Muncy with the bases loaded

Edwin Diaz 6 sv/10 svo

also still don't pitch to Max Muncy in high leverage/clutch situations

17 blown saves overall

Team	Blown Saves	Save Pct.
Nationals	31	52%
Tigers	26	48%
Athletics	24	55%
Royals	23	56%
White Sox	23	57%
Cardinals	22	61%
Yankees	21	62%

Edited 3 hours ago3 hr by caulfield12

Tuesday's Dodgers-Cubs Major League Baseball game averaged 923,000 viewers across TBS, truTV and HBO Max, marking the largest MLB regular season audience on the TNT Sports networks since an Indians-Yankees game in April 2009 (1.1M). (A previous version of this article stated that it was the most-watched on TNT Sports since it began carrying national MLB in 2007, but that was based on an error in the company's announcement Friday.)

In a tightly contested matchup, a team functioning like a well-oiled machine cannot afford to have one of its integral pieces struggling in the manner that Edwin Díaz has, ultimately leading to a blown save in the ninth. Blowup outings here and there can be explained, but what’s baffling about Díaz right now, as he allowed four straight hits (all singles) to give up the lead, is that the stuff just isn’t performing as you’d expect. Too often he located the pitch well and didn’t get the result you’d assume, like in this Chourio RBI single.

It's a one-run game in the ninth pic.twitter.com/Dlw1udMOl2

— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) August 14, 2026

Díaz blew the save and left a mess for Alex Vesia with two on and two out against Jake Bauers. Vesia threw a 1-2 slider that didn’t break enough, and Bauers squeezed it past the infield for an RBI single to give the Brewers the 5-4 lead. In typical Brewers fashion, they came back in this one with nothing but singles.

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