On this day in 1934 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Nevada 33-0. Running back Don Fowler led the way carrying the ball twelve times for 112 yards and two touchdowns. Cal out-gained the Wolfpack, 331-64. The victory was the second in a row to start the season. Unfortunately the Bears would slip to 6-6 in “Navy” Bill Ingram’s fourth and final season as head coach.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
SAN DIEGO - California men's soccer's Evan Davila scored the first goal of the season by any San Diego State opponent and freshman goalkeeper Zack Andoh got a shutout in his first collegiate start Thursday night, as the Golden Bears bested the 17th-ranked and previously unbeaten Aztecs, 1-0, in a Pac-12 Conference clash at the SDSU Sports Deck.
Cal improved to 4-2-3 (1-1-1 Pac-12). SDSU is 6-1-1 (0-1-0).
Four members of the California men's tennis team will compete in the Aggie Invitational at UC Davis starting Friday, while five Golden Bears will play in the ITA All-American Championships starting Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Bears and the rest of the field in Tulsa are vying to qualify for the ITA National Fall Championships in November.
Mikey Wright, John Kim, Alex Aney and Ethan Schiffman are heading to the Marya Welch Tennis Center in Davis for the Aggie Invite, which is slated to end on Sunday. Alex Chang, Derrick Chen, Jonathan Irwanto, Carl Emil Overbeck and Tim Stepanov are set to compete in the ITA All-American Championships at the University of Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center and at the Case Tennis Center in LaFortune Park. The All-American concludes on Oct. 8.
WOODSIDE – After nearly six and a half hours of competition at Menlo Country Club, a deep putt by Rina Tatematsu sealed a 4-3 victory for the California men's and women's golf teams in the 2023 edition of the Big Match.
With members of both teams and a host of spectators looking on, Tatematsu and her partner Sampson Zheng came up clutch on hole 17, earning the match-clinching 2-and-1 win. The seventh and final Golden Bear pair had been in the lead since the opening hole, going 3-up on multiple occasions before finally staving off Stanford's Rachel Heck and Karl Vilips.
BERKELEY- The California women's soccer team earned its fourth shutout of the season in its conference home opener Thursday, blanking Arizona 2-0. Junior forward Ari Manrique earned a brace with two second-half goals to give the Golden Bears their third-straight win.
Cal improved to 5-3-1 with a 2-0-0 conference record while the Wildcats fell to 4-3-3 overall with a 1-1-0 Pac-12 mark.
The California women's basketball team is hosting its fourth annual Race For Change at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. PT. This year's event is extra special as the team will be joined by Olympic bronze-medalist and well-known activist Dr. John Carlos – famous for displaying the Black Power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
in NYC SoulCycle classes, we are sometimes asked to come up w/ our "stripper name" based on some similar set of criteria and then share w/ the person next to us.
Newsom boxed himself in. Not sure if it matters, though.
Newsom risks ridicule if he names a political unknown to fill out Feinstein's term with a Black female who isn't Barbara Lee, Kamala Harris, Karen Bass, Shirley Weber, or Maxine Waters. He risks ridicule also if he names a male of any ethnic background to be US Senator.
Maybe Newsom should name Lee to the seat. Even if she's appointed it doesn't guarantee she'll get past either Porter or Schiff in the open primary.
Indeed. At least Biden had a larger pool on which to draw. Nominating a clearly capable and brilliant jurist in Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't hurt, either.
The pressure will be on Newsom to follow through on his promise to appoint a Black female to the vacant seat.
The obvious choice is precluded by the unbelievably polarized climate in Washington, DC: Kamala Harris. Harris doesn't need confirmation to assume a Senate seat, but the person nominate to succeed her as Vice President would need confirmation by a simple majority in each house of Congress under the 25th Amendment.
Having said that, Barbara Lee is the next obvious choice. Sure, it puts her in the role of incumbent and puts a serious crimp in Porter's and Schiff's campaigns for Feinstein's Senate seat, but there's also way more than enough time for both Porter and Schiff to change course and seek re-election to their current House seats.
I think he’s kind of reaffirmed the promise to appoint a black woman so will presumably do that. I never got it though, CA is only 5% black, and 39% hispanic, 35% white, 15% Asian. If he had just said “minority woman” instead of “black woman” he could have pulled from a way bigger pool of people, and also one more representative of the constituents
It goes to Newsom's appointment of Alex Padilla after Kamala Harris became VP. He was under pressure to appoint a Black woman to that seat because Harris held it. He didn't, so he promised he would do so if another vacancy came up.
This highlights a problem I have with appointment politics in the US: it's inevitably tied up with identity politics in the sense that seats become "reserved" for a particular ideology, ethnic identification, sex, or sexual orientation. It's the balkanization of the political sphere with the effect of making it increasingly difficult to find common ground and purpose.
We're seeing that effect at its worst in the House right now, where the most extreme members of the House Freedom Caucus are holding that chamber and the federal government to a threatened shutdown. Actually, these nihilists want to burn down the building, as it were, and the government with it.
Yeah, dude, am totally with you. The main issue that Congress needs to address is the mechanics of how our democracy works. It is plainly just not working well right now, given Congressional inability to act even on issues where polling shows clear majority agreement in the general population. They really need to attend to this issue before any particular substantive one as otherwise our government just won’t have the ability to deal with anything. It’s incredible we did not address this in 2020-22 when we had both houses and POTUS in D control. I get it, senate filibuster blah blah blah, but gimme a fucking break. Nonexclusive list of things that need to happen:
1. Ban party primaries. All primaries open.
2. Ban gerrymandering. Create nonpartisan federal redistricting commission.
3. President by national popular vote.
4. Eliminate filibuster.
5. Make more Congressional deliberations be closed to all media except as to the results of voting. MTG etc preening for cameras/soundbites makes getting actual business done too difficult.
6. Ban government shutdowns. If no budget deal reached then budgets automatically renew at prior year levels.
I agree with everything but No. 5. Congressional hearings and floor debate must remain open. Keeping hearings and floor debate open is like sunshine, the best disinfectant against corruption.
With regards to 2 (gerrymandering) on top of a federal redistricting commission, I'd also multiply the number of members of the House by about 5 (approx. 2,200 members of the House for 332 million US residents or a ratio of approx. 1:150,000). Increasing the numbers of representatives and taking away redistricting from self-interested state legislators would dilute the power of the nihilists and obstructionists to almost nil.
The only tweak to 6 (rollover federal budget) I'd make is to adjust the numbers based on inflation and gross revenues.
As I said, the point is effectively moot. Newsom won't appoint Harris to the seat.
But Newsom is not off the hook on following through on his promise to appoint a Black female to the seat formerly held by DiFi. And who are the candidates if you exclude Harris and Lee? Karen Bass and Shirley Weber.
Bass became Mayor of LA last December. She gave up her seat in the House to run for Mayor. I doubt she wants to go back to Washington or even take on a caretaker role through 2024.
Shirley Weber is California Secretary of State and is 75 years old. She's doing an effective job in that position and her term runs through 2026. I doubt she'd want to be a caretaker on a US Senate seat only through 2024.
Do you want Maxine Waters? Would Ms. Waters want the caretaker role as the coda to her career?
Only 2/5 Pac-12 games are nationally televised this week: Utah at OSU tonight at 9EDT/6PDT on FS1 and USC at Colorado at 12EDT/9PDT (yes, that's 9am) on Fox
I would not call that a swing, and I don't know of any umpire who would call that a swing, excepting Angel Hernandez, apparently. There are two problems here: (1) there is no definition in the rules of what constitutes a swing and (2) the rules say that calling balls and strikes is the prerogative of the umpires and such judgment calls are not to be argued.
Having said that, Hernandez is objectively a bad umpire and I truly don't understand how he holds on to his job.
SAN FRANCISCO — Just weeks after earning the endorsement of the club’s chairman, Gabe Kapler was fired by the Giants on Friday, the result of a spectacular September collapse that saw his club, in the words of top baseball boss Farhan Zaidi, “play our worst baseball when it mattered most.”
The indictment from Zaidi came Thursday in a conciliatory 15-minute interview on the club’s flagship network, KNBR, in which Zaidi took personal accountability for the club’s shortcomings but also stopped short of affirming his hand-picked manager would be back for the next season.
Less than 24 hours later, Zaidi said in a statement issued by the club that he made the recommendation to fire Kapler and received the approval of ownership.
COMMENT: Firing Kapler is a no-brainer. It remains to be seen if Zaidi can produce a perennial playoff contender in San Francisco. My guess is no.
I am absolutely no fan of Kapler, but he was given a shit sandwich of a roster over and over again. I'm fine with letting him go, but Farhan absolutely needs to be fired next. He is the real issue.
The Las Vegas Raiders are coming off a disappointing performance vs the Pittsburgh Steelers (-2.5)The offense struggled to move the football, while the defense had leaks in the secondary. It all led to a 23-18 loss in their home opener.
Jimmy Garoppolo faced pressure for the first time this season and was sacked twice. After the game, he was evaluated for a concussion and is in protocol for the week. It is possible he could not suit up for the Raiders on Sunday vs the Los Angeles Chargers
MLB.com’s Maria Guardado reports that Logan Webb won’t be starting in the final series of the regular season as the San Francisco Giants host the Los Angeles Dodgers. Instead, the Giants will start three rookies: Keaton Winn, Tristan Beck, and Kyle Harrison.
I think we know now what Kapler and Webb’s long walk in the outfield was all about.
The A’s got back into the win column today, avoiding a sweep at the hands of the Twins with a close 2-1 win in the second-to-last series of the season.
We were treated to an old fashioned pitching duel today between a couple right-ganders. On the Oakland side was rookie Luis Medina, although I think it’s fair to say that Medina isn’t really a rookie anymore after pitching for the A’s most of the year. Opposing him was a familiar face in Sonny Gray, who has had a fantastic year for his fourth team. In fact, Gray is likely to take the ball for the Twins’ first playoff game.
Ryan Yarbrough had a rare clunker of a game since joining the Dodgers, and his start turned into simply soaking up innings in a 14-5 loss to the Rockies on Thursday night at Coors Field.
Staked to leads of 2-0 and 3-1, Yarbrough allowed runs in all four of his innings, including three home runs, after allowing only five homers in his first 34⅔ innings and 10 games with Los Angeles. In all, Yarbrough gave up a career-high 11 hits and his nine runs allowed tied his career worst.
CAL
RIP Tiny Moala
https://twitter.com/SacBee_JoeD/status/1707555244274852205
Very sad, so young.
RIP.
On this day in 1934 in Memorial Stadium the Golden Bears defeated Nevada 33-0. Running back Don Fowler led the way carrying the ball twelve times for 112 yards and two touchdowns. Cal out-gained the Wolfpack, 331-64. The victory was the second in a row to start the season. Unfortunately the Bears would slip to 6-6 in “Navy” Bill Ingram’s fourth and final season as head coach.
DBD celebrates 100 years of football in Strawberry Canyon with this daily feature appearing throughout the football season.
Go Bears!!!
[MSOC] Cal Beats No. 17 San Diego State 1-0
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/28/mens-soccer-cal-beats-no-17-sdsu-1-0.aspx
SAN DIEGO - California men's soccer's Evan Davila scored the first goal of the season by any San Diego State opponent and freshman goalkeeper Zack Andoh got a shutout in his first collegiate start Thursday night, as the Golden Bears bested the 17th-ranked and previously unbeaten Aztecs, 1-0, in a Pac-12 Conference clash at the SDSU Sports Deck.
Cal improved to 4-2-3 (1-1-1 Pac-12). SDSU is 6-1-1 (0-1-0).
[MTEN] Bears Head To All-American, Aggie Invite
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/28/bears-head-to-all-american-aggie-invite.aspx
Four members of the California men's tennis team will compete in the Aggie Invitational at UC Davis starting Friday, while five Golden Bears will play in the ITA All-American Championships starting Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Bears and the rest of the field in Tulsa are vying to qualify for the ITA National Fall Championships in November.
Mikey Wright, John Kim, Alex Aney and Ethan Schiffman are heading to the Marya Welch Tennis Center in Davis for the Aggie Invite, which is slated to end on Sunday. Alex Chang, Derrick Chen, Jonathan Irwanto, Carl Emil Overbeck and Tim Stepanov are set to compete in the ITA All-American Championships at the University of Tulsa's Michael D. Case Tennis Center and at the Case Tennis Center in LaFortune Park. The All-American concludes on Oct. 8.
[WGOLF] Bears Win Big Match 4-3
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/28/womens-golf-bears-win-big-match-4-3.aspx
WOODSIDE – After nearly six and a half hours of competition at Menlo Country Club, a deep putt by Rina Tatematsu sealed a 4-3 victory for the California men's and women's golf teams in the 2023 edition of the Big Match.
With members of both teams and a host of spectators looking on, Tatematsu and her partner Sampson Zheng came up clutch on hole 17, earning the match-clinching 2-and-1 win. The seventh and final Golden Bear pair had been in the lead since the opening hole, going 3-up on multiple occasions before finally staving off Stanford's Rachel Heck and Karl Vilips.
[WSOC] Cal Blanks Arizona 2-0
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/28/womens-soccer-cal-blanks-arizona-2-0.aspx
BERKELEY- The California women's soccer team earned its fourth shutout of the season in its conference home opener Thursday, blanking Arizona 2-0. Junior forward Ari Manrique earned a brace with two second-half goals to give the Golden Bears their third-straight win.
Cal improved to 5-3-1 with a 2-0-0 conference record while the Wildcats fell to 4-3-3 overall with a 1-1-0 Pac-12 mark.
[WBB] Cal Women’s Basketball Hosts Race For Change
https://calbears.com/news/2023/9/28/womens-basketball-cal-womens-basketball-hosts-race-for-change.aspx
The California women's basketball team is hosting its fourth annual Race For Change at Lake Merritt in Oakland on Oct. 21 at 3 p.m. PT. This year's event is extra special as the team will be joined by Olympic bronze-medalist and well-known activist Dr. John Carlos – famous for displaying the Black Power salute on the podium with Tommie Smith at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Millennial name
Sawyer Giles Berkelium
Cooper Graham SGBear
Knight Angus heyalumnigo
(you and all your silly English k-nnnnniggets)
I guess a knight can be a medieval profession.
esp the Knights who say Ni
Alchemist Smythe Tangtpt
I mean this the highest compliment that I can give: this is one of, if not THE, the most ridiculous exercises that I've seen on the DBD. Bravo!
in NYC SoulCycle classes, we are sometimes asked to come up w/ our "stripper name" based on some similar set of criteria and then share w/ the person next to us.
Baker Craic Scootie
Celt, Otter-skins, 6 colors, Cal
Declan Schulyer Disciple
Chandler Duncan FiatSlug
Shrubber Whisky HeyStudentsBears
in business w/ Roger the Shrubber.
Political stuff here
Dianne Feinstein will not run for re-election next year
npr.org/2023/09/29/1125664267/dianne-feinstein-obituary
So Schiff, lee or Porter have to be favorites, no? - but Newsome needs to decide to whom to grant the incumbent advantage
Appoint Kamala Harris! :)
He has said he will not appoint someone who's running for the full term.
Newsom boxed himself in. Not sure if it matters, though.
Newsom risks ridicule if he names a political unknown to fill out Feinstein's term with a Black female who isn't Barbara Lee, Kamala Harris, Karen Bass, Shirley Weber, or Maxine Waters. He risks ridicule also if he names a male of any ethnic background to be US Senator.
Maybe Newsom should name Lee to the seat. Even if she's appointed it doesn't guarantee she'll get past either Porter or Schiff in the open primary.
It's always dumb to box yourself in by citing specific racial and/or gender categories. Biden shouldn't have done it for the SCOTUS seat either.
Indeed. At least Biden had a larger pool on which to draw. Nominating a clearly capable and brilliant jurist in Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't hurt, either.
I feel like he sort of walked that promise back a little after Lee called BS on it. Regardless, he is squirming right now.
She has finally retired.
The pressure will be on Newsom to follow through on his promise to appoint a Black female to the vacant seat.
The obvious choice is precluded by the unbelievably polarized climate in Washington, DC: Kamala Harris. Harris doesn't need confirmation to assume a Senate seat, but the person nominate to succeed her as Vice President would need confirmation by a simple majority in each house of Congress under the 25th Amendment.
I seriously doubt the House would confirm any successor by a simple majority since members of the House Freedom Caucus effectively run the GOP side. Which brings up another thing: WaPo reports that a motion to vacate will come up next week. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/09/28/kevin-mccarthy-tom-emmer-government-shutdown-motion-vacate/
Having said that, Barbara Lee is the next obvious choice. Sure, it puts her in the role of incumbent and puts a serious crimp in Porter's and Schiff's campaigns for Feinstein's Senate seat, but there's also way more than enough time for both Porter and Schiff to change course and seek re-election to their current House seats.
Barbara Lee? Ehh...
I think he’s kind of reaffirmed the promise to appoint a black woman so will presumably do that. I never got it though, CA is only 5% black, and 39% hispanic, 35% white, 15% Asian. If he had just said “minority woman” instead of “black woman” he could have pulled from a way bigger pool of people, and also one more representative of the constituents
It goes to Newsom's appointment of Alex Padilla after Kamala Harris became VP. He was under pressure to appoint a Black woman to that seat because Harris held it. He didn't, so he promised he would do so if another vacancy came up.
This highlights a problem I have with appointment politics in the US: it's inevitably tied up with identity politics in the sense that seats become "reserved" for a particular ideology, ethnic identification, sex, or sexual orientation. It's the balkanization of the political sphere with the effect of making it increasingly difficult to find common ground and purpose.
We're seeing that effect at its worst in the House right now, where the most extreme members of the House Freedom Caucus are holding that chamber and the federal government to a threatened shutdown. Actually, these nihilists want to burn down the building, as it were, and the government with it.
Yeah, dude, am totally with you. The main issue that Congress needs to address is the mechanics of how our democracy works. It is plainly just not working well right now, given Congressional inability to act even on issues where polling shows clear majority agreement in the general population. They really need to attend to this issue before any particular substantive one as otherwise our government just won’t have the ability to deal with anything. It’s incredible we did not address this in 2020-22 when we had both houses and POTUS in D control. I get it, senate filibuster blah blah blah, but gimme a fucking break. Nonexclusive list of things that need to happen:
1. Ban party primaries. All primaries open.
2. Ban gerrymandering. Create nonpartisan federal redistricting commission.
3. President by national popular vote.
4. Eliminate filibuster.
5. Make more Congressional deliberations be closed to all media except as to the results of voting. MTG etc preening for cameras/soundbites makes getting actual business done too difficult.
6. Ban government shutdowns. If no budget deal reached then budgets automatically renew at prior year levels.
7. Eliminate debt ceiling.
I agree with everything but No. 5. Congressional hearings and floor debate must remain open. Keeping hearings and floor debate open is like sunshine, the best disinfectant against corruption.
With regards to 2 (gerrymandering) on top of a federal redistricting commission, I'd also multiply the number of members of the House by about 5 (approx. 2,200 members of the House for 332 million US residents or a ratio of approx. 1:150,000). Increasing the numbers of representatives and taking away redistricting from self-interested state legislators would dilute the power of the nihilists and obstructionists to almost nil.
The only tweak to 6 (rollover federal budget) I'd make is to adjust the numbers based on inflation and gross revenues.
I disagree because I don’t see how Harris would ever agree to this.
As I said, the point is effectively moot. Newsom won't appoint Harris to the seat.
But Newsom is not off the hook on following through on his promise to appoint a Black female to the seat formerly held by DiFi. And who are the candidates if you exclude Harris and Lee? Karen Bass and Shirley Weber.
Bass became Mayor of LA last December. She gave up her seat in the House to run for Mayor. I doubt she wants to go back to Washington or even take on a caretaker role through 2024.
Shirley Weber is California Secretary of State and is 75 years old. She's doing an effective job in that position and her term runs through 2026. I doubt she'd want to be a caretaker on a US Senate seat only through 2024.
Do you want Maxine Waters? Would Ms. Waters want the caretaker role as the coda to her career?
DBD AV CLUB
Final season of Sex Education on Netflix has been very good. I’ve finished the first two episodes and am enjoying it.
I thought the first episode was so absurd I lost interest. The Mrs watched the rest of the season and said it got better
It got better! 2 & 3rd are better!
where would you be if you had applied that same logic to the dbd
probably reveling in the glory and basking in the sunshine of Eleven Win Esteban and renewed Texas football dominance.
exactly, insufferable
the dbd and cal football keep us all humble
ELSEWHERE IN COLLEGE
Only 2/5 Pac-12 games are nationally televised this week: Utah at OSU tonight at 9EDT/6PDT on FS1 and USC at Colorado at 12EDT/9PDT (yes, that's 9am) on Fox
It sucks that the conference is breaking up, but it does look like basically everyone who left will be getting better TV coverage next year.
Well, at least no one will see us lose to ASU in an upset.
Jack Plummer just threw a pick in the endzone stopping a potentially game-winning drive.
Deja Vu, all over again.
OSU is the real thing, alright. Martinez has holes made both for him and by him to punch the Utes impenetrable defense in the mouth.
Go PAC 12 faithful.
PRO
Angel Hernandez strikes again
https://twitter.com/NBCSPhilly/status/1707531805547466863?t=RlN3YYC2i46anwo6qgXF-Q&s=19
I would not call that a swing, and I don't know of any umpire who would call that a swing, excepting Angel Hernandez, apparently. There are two problems here: (1) there is no definition in the rules of what constitutes a swing and (2) the rules say that calling balls and strikes is the prerogative of the umpires and such judgment calls are not to be argued.
Having said that, Hernandez is objectively a bad umpire and I truly don't understand how he holds on to his job.
Beat me to it - with the exact words I was going to use.
Wow. He is terrible.
Gabe Kapler fired as SF Giants manager after 4 seasons
Gabe Kapler wasn’t able to survive the Giants’ September collapse, going 8-17 this month and missing the playoffs for the third time in four seasons
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/09/29/gabe-kapler-fired-as-sf-giants-manager-after-4-seasons/
SAN FRANCISCO — Just weeks after earning the endorsement of the club’s chairman, Gabe Kapler was fired by the Giants on Friday, the result of a spectacular September collapse that saw his club, in the words of top baseball boss Farhan Zaidi, “play our worst baseball when it mattered most.”
The indictment from Zaidi came Thursday in a conciliatory 15-minute interview on the club’s flagship network, KNBR, in which Zaidi took personal accountability for the club’s shortcomings but also stopped short of affirming his hand-picked manager would be back for the next season.
Less than 24 hours later, Zaidi said in a statement issued by the club that he made the recommendation to fire Kapler and received the approval of ownership.
COMMENT: Firing Kapler is a no-brainer. It remains to be seen if Zaidi can produce a perennial playoff contender in San Francisco. My guess is no.
I am absolutely no fan of Kapler, but he was given a shit sandwich of a roster over and over again. I'm fine with letting him go, but Farhan absolutely needs to be fired next. He is the real issue.
I'm also on the #FireFarhan bandwagon. But Kapler struck me as someone who caught lightning in a bottle in '21 and couldn't replicate it.
I think it doesn't matter how the roster is constructed. Kapler's ceiling is probably about 88 wins, barring something unusual. Like 2021.
Exactly.
#FireFarhan
He should have been given the Wilcox treatment and 7 seasons.
SB Nation Reacts: 94 percent of Raiders think Las Vegas should start Aidan O’Connell at QB
https://www.silverandblackpride.com/2023/9/29/23895145/raiders-week-4-aidan-oconnell-jimmy-garoppolo
The Las Vegas Raiders are coming off a disappointing performance vs the Pittsburgh Steelers (-2.5)The offense struggled to move the football, while the defense had leaks in the secondary. It all led to a 23-18 loss in their home opener.
Jimmy Garoppolo faced pressure for the first time this season and was sacked twice. After the game, he was evaluated for a concussion and is in protocol for the week. It is possible he could not suit up for the Raiders on Sunday vs the Los Angeles Chargers
Kyle Harrison to start season finale
https://www.mccoveychronicles.com/2023/9/28/23895088/san-francisco-giants-shut-down-logan-webb-ending-2023-cy-young-candidate-season-kyle-harrison-starts
MLB.com’s Maria Guardado reports that Logan Webb won’t be starting in the final series of the regular season as the San Francisco Giants host the Los Angeles Dodgers. Instead, the Giants will start three rookies: Keaton Winn, Tristan Beck, and Kyle Harrison.
I think we know now what Kapler and Webb’s long walk in the outfield was all about.
A’s snap losing skid, beat Twins 2-1
https://www.athleticsnation.com/2023/9/28/23894387/as-snap-losing-skid-beat-twins-2-1
The A’s got back into the win column today, avoiding a sweep at the hands of the Twins with a close 2-1 win in the second-to-last series of the season.
We were treated to an old fashioned pitching duel today between a couple right-ganders. On the Oakland side was rookie Luis Medina, although I think it’s fair to say that Medina isn’t really a rookie anymore after pitching for the A’s most of the year. Opposing him was a familiar face in Sonny Gray, who has had a fantastic year for his fourth team. In fact, Gray is likely to take the ball for the Twins’ first playoff game.
Dodgers left-handers Ryan Yarbrough, Caleb Ferguson roughed up by Rockies
https://www.truebluela.com/2023/9/28/23894595/dodgers-lefties-ryan-yarbrough-caleb-ferguson-rockies
Ryan Yarbrough had a rare clunker of a game since joining the Dodgers, and his start turned into simply soaking up innings in a 14-5 loss to the Rockies on Thursday night at Coors Field.
Staked to leads of 2-0 and 3-1, Yarbrough allowed runs in all four of his innings, including three home runs, after allowing only five homers in his first 34⅔ innings and 10 games with Los Angeles. In all, Yarbrough gave up a career-high 11 hits and his nine runs allowed tied his career worst.
Kyle Boller got a shout out on this morning's ESPN Get Out show. Wasn't really paying attention but hear the name and head swiveled.