Aug 3-4: Highly anticipated short series with Astroisks has arrived. Get out your trash cans and trash talk.
Game 1- I told the Dodgers to save some runs for the Astros. Cruel baseball has teams score big followed by a shutout. And it wasn’t even that close, as Dodgers lost 3-0.
Pitching: Buehler pitched a strong 6 innings, giving up just 1 run. But his team gave him no support again, so he takes the loss. Struggling Gonzalez gave up a 2-run homer to extend the loss to 3-0.
Game 2- Much more fun, as Dodgers’ offense opened up with 4 HR’s, led by Mookie’s 2 solos. Dodgers took an early 7-1 lead, and it looked like a laugher. Monumental 1st Dodger start for Max Scherzer, hurling 7 innings with 10K’s, leaving with a 7-2 lead. But the pen made us sweat: Kelly looked great until he hung a center-cut curve to Correa for Astros’ 2nd HR. (Glad Kelly didn’t throw any pitches behind Astro hitters again.) Dodgers ended up out homering Astros 4-3.
Then Jansen in the 9th really made us sweat after giving up a 2-run blast to close it to 7-5, and still no outs. Good thing Treinen was heating up in a hurry. We didn’t want to see Kenley face Altuve, who was on deck. So our prayers were answered when Jansen was able to pick on a rookie for a K and end the game (whew!). Unfortunately Kenley showed us he is not now reliable enough to be our closer.