Los Angeles Dodgers

I don't even know if he'll remember this story.

1997, he was in Vero Beach with the Vero Beach Dodgers.

I don't know if-

Right.

And also, also, in, uh, two thou...

I got a lot of Beltre, but in 2004, by the way, I was there, and you guys won the division.

Steve Finley grand slam, the year you set the, the, uh, home run record for the Dodgers at the time.

I think you hit 49.

Not a perfect game, but that said, Isak Paredes off of Hopkins is 21st home run of the season, and then Casey Lugamita will give up a home run to Nick Allen, 3rd home run of the season, and Nelson Velasquez, the 6th, gives up a pair of home runs in his inning work, but you did have Steven Matz give you a squirrel saying to be able to get that one in.

Being able to get this one in, the Miami Marlins 6-4 over the LA Dodgers.

Emmett Sheehan was great, by the way.

6 shutout innings out of him, and then Alex Vecchia, squall ascending, and then Yara Rinkas gives up two runs at two-thirds of an inning.

Not just, you know, obviously looking forward to some playoff matchups or, you know, games with playoff implications.

Like, you know, obviously we kind of know what's happening in the American League, at least at the top of it with the Red Sox and the Yankees and the Rays.

Seeing what the Dodgers do against the Reds, Scooble has not been the greatest pitcher in the world by any means.

He's been up and down this year, definitely starting to heat up a little bit more in L.A. rather than when he first came over.

I see that.

So because of that, it actually works correctly because you have the Brewers number one, the Dodgers number two, the Braves number three, the Cubs four, the Phillies five, and the Padres six.

And that is exactly how it looks in the standings when you look.

But

Oh, they should get rid of more home.

Well, why? Well, because they're playing in the toughest division.

They're playing with the Dodgers in their division.

They're going to win 96 games.

The final game of the nineteen fifty-two World Series, and I know that you're anxious to know the official identities of the starting pitchers.

And so quickly, quickly we go right down to the playing field and show you, as you would expect, right-hander Joe Black of the Brooklyn Dodgers, as previously announced by Chuck Dressen, making his third appearance in this series as the starting pitcher.

He's won one and lost one.

And for the Yankees, the issue is no longer in doubt, it's going to be left-hander Eddie Lopat.

So that manager Casey Stengel, hard-pressed for a starting pitcher for today as a result of having to bring in Allie Reynolds yesterday in relief, said he had to sleep on it, and he came up with Lopat today.

Eddie with three days' rest, coming in to pitch against a Dodger lineup which is predominantly filled with right-hand batters.

The Dodgers have not had too much trouble with left-hand pitchers, particularly here at Ebbets Field.

But Casey Stengel had to come up with somebody, and it's Eddie Lopat on the mound.

Second game is the Brewers against Gibson.

The Dodgers lead the Pirates six to four playing the bottom of the ninth.

Peraneski in there now, and pretty for Pittsburgh.

Clemente homered in the third.

Cincinnati shut out the Cardinals six-nothing in the first game.

Second game is nothing-nothing into five and a half.

The Dodgers beat the Pirates six-four, and the Cubs beat Milwaukee four to three in 10 innings.

Well, that's the way the action stands in the, around the rest of the American and National League.

Molio looking for his sixth win going for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Giants now only one game ahead of the second-place Cardinals in third place, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Dodgers are playing Cincinnati.

The starting pitcher, Johnny Padres, against Kim O'Toole.

Rolio looking for his sixth win, going for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Giants now only one game ahead of the second place Cardinals.

In third place, the Los Angeles Dodgers.

And the Dodgers are playing Cincinnati.

A score from the National League headliner tonight.

The Dodgers 1 and the Philadelphia Phillies 2.

They're playing at Philadelphia in the seventh inning.

Odom's one-two pitch to McAuliffe.

Behind the pitcher's mound, he makes the catch.

There's one away in the sixth.

They're going into the ninth inning at Philadelphia in that National League headliner, and the score is still the Phillies 5 and the Dodgers 1.

The Giants are not playing tonight.

One ball and one strike.

Alexander, key part in the Frank Robinson swap to the Dodgers in December of 1971.

In fact, he pitched for the Robinson-managed Santurce club in the Puerto Rican, the Winter League last winter.

Pitch, foul ball over the screen, and the count is a ball and two strikes.

They haven't lost.

And winning seven in a row at this time of the year, you know, they're not facing the, the, the, uh, the Braves and the Dodgers and, you know, uh, w- you know, uh, whatever other good teams, you know, that aren't the Cubs, right? Doesn't matter.

They play what's in front of them, and they're taking care of business.

They, they went to San Francisco.

The vibe is the s- is similar to '24.

But the thing about '24 differently than this year, I don't think the Padres are gonna be, uh, the Vegas odds-on favorite to win the World Series like the 2014 was.

At, at one point they were when they led the Dodgers.

You're 100% right.