I barely want to even write an editorial here in Say Hey, Baseball about the Dodgers being 50 games over .500 on Aug. 16. Mostly because I’m not sure I’m capable of it right now. I just want to leave you with a few sentences and sentence fragments like:
The Dodgers are 50 games over .500
Wednesday’s Say Hey, Baseball looks at the Dodgers’ ridiculous season, Joey Votto being a hero/jerk again, and Giancarlo Stanton’s torrid run.
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Fifty games? Over .500? lol it is mid-August, how
I’m pretty sure someone somewhere will be upset by that even though it is basically how my brain is processing that the Dodgers are 50 games over .500 on Aug. 16, so, here goes:
lollll the Dodgers are 50 games over .500 in mid-August and they’ve only had Yu Darvish for like, two weeks or something
Sorry, sorry, one more try [deep breath]
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The Dodgers are 84-34. They have a .712 winning percentage. They’re on pace for 115 wins, one shy of the record held by the 2001 Mariners and 1906 Cubs. After 118 games, the 2001 Mariners were 85-33, so the Dodgers can change that pacing in a hurry. Los Angeles is 18.5 games up on the second-place Diamondbacks, and has 13 more wins and 12 fewer losses than the Nationals, who have the second-most victories in the NL. They have 22 more wins right now than the NL Central-leading Cubs.
I’d now compare the Dodgers to the AL teams with wild cards just to further emphasize the dominance of Los Angeles this year, but the Yankees have a better record than the Cubs, so we’ve pushed that as far as it goes.
The Dodgers have outscored opponents by 213 runs. They’ve yet to give up 400 runs on the season: The next-stingiest NL team is the D-Backs at 480 runs allowed, and every other club in the senior circuit has allowed at least 505. It’s a slightly different story in the AL, but even there, the team with the fewest allowed, Cleveland, is at 449 — and they haven’t scored as many runs as the Dodgers.
I probably should have just stuck with “lol,” because seriously, how else are you supposed to react to all this?
- Giancarlo Stanton could hypothetically be traded to any team now that he’s passed through waivers, so we did all of you a favor and ranked the teams he’s most likely to be on by Sept. 1.
- Yadier Molina might not be as slow as brother Ben, but he’s slow enough to have helped the Red Sox turn a triple play on Tuesday.
- While we’re on the subject of Stanton, he hit home run No. 44 on the season, and Michael Baumann says Giancarlo has become the most frightening hitter in the game.
- Rather than give a ball to Cubs fans on Monday, Joey Votto tried to throw it out of Wrigley. On Tuesday, he came closer to succeeding, getting the ball onto the roof.
- Ian Kinsler was ejected by Angel Hernandez, and reacted to that by telling the ump he needs to “stop ruining baseball games.”
- Even MLB players need to take the subway every now and again.
- Ryan Braun is having himself a pretty good 2017 campaign.
- The Rockies and Chad Bettis gave this one fan the greatest game ever.
- You would think the Angels were out of the postseason race the way they’ve been covered.
- The Astros and Tigers are still talking Justin Verlander trade. Unless they’re not. What happens when the contradicting sources are the same person?
- Stephanie Springer has a lengthy piece over at Hardball Times on the Joint Drug Agreement being more bark than bite.
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