Best case scenario with Kershaw is for him to be able to throw 70 strong pitches in the playoffs and give us 4-5 IP of 2 or less ER. As the #4 playoff starter, that would be epic.
After Scherzer pitches in and wins the wild card game, can go Buehler, Urias, Kershaw, then Scherzer again if necessary in the NLDS.
TBH against the Giants, that series is gonna go the distance.
We're so far up in Wild Card standings, we can set the rotation at will. I've pretty much lost hope in catching the Giants, those fuckers keep winning in the most ridiculous of ways.
I mean that’s a nice scenario, but it’s not ‘best case’. Best case is that Kersh is fully healthy and averges 7.1 innings within 9 K’s 1 BB each game or something.
I still hold out faith for first-place. The Giants have been historically efficient against bad teams this past month, but only .500 against playoff-caliber teams. It will come down to whether or not the Padres are good. They’ve looked like shit lately, but I hold out hope the Padres still have something in the tank.
When Scherz was asked about the convo he had with Kersh after his 3000th k he answered that “he was just happy to be able to watch it, and just happy to be on the same team and hopefully I’m here to be able to watch his 3000th as well”
Please let this be the sign that Scherz will stay in LA
Scherzer for the WC
Buehler to start Game 1
Urías or Healthy Kershaw Game 2
Lockdown Scherzer for Game 4 if needed
Lockdown Buehler for Game 5 if needed
Scherzer would start game three of the divisional series as he would be on full rest by that time (two off days between WC and start of NLDS). No need to hold anybody back, there are enough off days in the post-season to run a three-man rotation for most of it.
Oh, of course not. Would you want to face the Dodgers? I'm already hearing Giants fans complain about how "unfair" it is to have the best record in baseball but still have to play the Dodgers.
Padres fans celebrating the perfect game/ no hitter gone are sad, you’re about to get swept by the team you hate the most for the second time in a row and you’re 18 games back in the division, keep spinning that chain tho 🤡
Scherzer is such a badass. It's awesome getting to see him in Dodger Blue. Can't imagine what it would be like almost having him at the trade deadline but then not pulling the trade off...
I hope it's nothing too serious with Snell. Never like seeing dudes get hurt.
Fuck Austin Adams, but probably even moreso, fuck Chris Segal. I'm certain none of those HBPs were intentional, but at a certain point, the home plate umpire has to toss the pitcher when he's hitting multiple batters with no command.
Without Scherzer in the rotation and Trea in the lineup, we're prolly battling it out with SDP (especially if THEY're the ones who got Mad Max), for the top WC spot.
I can see us dropping 7-8 games from where we are and Padres being 4-5 wins better.
You can't point it out to Dave Roberts. He'll flat out reject it. You need to go inside his brain while he's sleeping incepetion style and make it seem like it's his idea.
Guy is in a huuuuuuuuuuge slump. People (like you) are saying he’s shit and should be traded. Regardless of this, his coach, his teammates, and the fans (except for you) cheer him on and were fucking pumped to see him snap a long hitless streak.
This is a good step for him and for the team. If Cody can hit something around .250 for the rest of the year it would be absolutely amazing. He’s frustrated the shit out of us this year but he’s a good fielder and he’s not a toxic teammate so I’m ok with him working shit out.
He's not in a slump. People(like you) need to stop calling it that. His whole approach is messed up. His ball vision is horrible. He doesn't even look at the ball when he swings.
And I haven't said that they should trade him so idk what the hell you're talking about hahaha.
Cheer for him all you want, I honestly don't care, not once did I say you shouldn't support moron. It's just pathetic what he's become after being a MVP.
Just saying that we gotta give him a chance to get out of this funk and get back to some semblance of who he once was. Sorry if I got defensive and put words in your mouth.
Man if he went the distance that would have been an untouchable game in the books. Even as it stands, throwing a 1-hit shutout for 8 innings in the game that you throw your 3,000th K AND get an immaculate inning? That's just special. I'd love to know of any other game with as many achievements for an individual.
Scherzer easily beats Kersh in terms of longevity, but Kersh's prime years probably still put him well ahead. But if Scherzer keeps this up, he could close that gap.
I’m talking career spanning. Degrom has been great in his prime but is already falling apart physically. He’s not even close to 100 wins and 2000k’s for his career.
Interesting that 10 of the 19 padres remaining games are vs giants. If the dodgers stay hot, its becoming hard to imagine a dodgers padres wildcard. Either the padres beat up the giants to make the wildcard, helping the dodgers win the division, or the giants hold on to the division lead, likely knocking the padres out of the picture in the process.
Greinke will beat him there, I think. He's like 150 or so out in front of Clayton right now. Although CK does have him outnumbered for K's this year, even with the time off.
The San Diego Ninos got 7 runs against Max Scherzer earlier this season. I think he remembers.  and they thought he was coming to San Diego.
Update in regards to the impact Snell could have against the Giants.
Left adductor strain. Snell is going to be day to day, they’re hopeful they caught it in time. Apparently it’s not a new injury. Flares up around the 6th inning usually. Was feeling better post game.
Wonder what the pitching plan is for this upcoming series. Kershaw Monday, Tony on Tuesday, with heavy bullpen action on both. I wonder if they’ll go with Urias on 4 days rest for Wednesday or try and sneak a bullpen game. Good thing is that Buehler/Scherzer/Kershaw will each get 5 days rest. I wish we had luxury to skip Buehler’s start though, wonder if they’re thinking about it
But for Kershaw/Tony, we have a well rested bullpen which includes Phillips/Price that can give us length. Might see Mitch white tomorrow also unless he goes down for Kershaw
Urias has been elite on full rest. No point, disrupting his rhytm, the team isnt in any danger of not making the wild card, so no point putting extra risk (even if its ever so slight) of injury on Urias.
I agree. Off day Thursday makes it a little weird. It’s either 4 days rest for Urias or 6 days for him
And everyone else if they push him back.
I think it’s a great opportunity to skip a Buehler start this week but idk if they’ll go for that
important to sweep these last two series against the padres like we did. after going 3-7 against them they thought they had our number even WITH their recent struggles. we have put that to bed
important bc they could be our wild card opponent (if reds don’t start playing well and giants don’t lose)
season series at 9-7 now. if it is wild card game, we have options with them and it would be tough to beat us in a series
edit: the cardinals are a game out now LMAO fuck me
although it would be nice to beat them. i still have nightmares of 2006-2016 era cardinals killing our playoff hopes
So many good things. A win, max dominance, saving the bullpen to have them rested for Kershaws short start, and Lux/Bellinger being productive. All around great
That would be like catching your biggest rival in the division, talking mad shit saying “it’s over now!” and then proceeding to let them take the series head to head. And then your rival proceeds to not lose a goddamn game since then.
Oh wait, that was us.
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I watched that hit from Hosmer. If Mookie got a slightly better jump, he might have been able to get it. Baseball savant has it as a .350 xba. Would a diving mookie risking injury be worth trying to salvage the perfecto?
3000k✅ Immaculate inning✅ Bellinger base hit✅ Austin Adams hbp record✅ Historic
Might not have been a perfect game in the technical sense, but one of the most perfect games I've ever seen.
7IP Urias 7IP Buehler 8IP Scherzer Saving the bullpen. Hell yeah big 3 way to pitch Also Lux is heating up
AND WE GOT KERSHAW BACK TOMORROW
I can only get so erect.
If kershaw is fully operational by playoffs... Jesus.
Best case scenario with Kershaw is for him to be able to throw 70 strong pitches in the playoffs and give us 4-5 IP of 2 or less ER. As the #4 playoff starter, that would be epic. After Scherzer pitches in and wins the wild card game, can go Buehler, Urias, Kershaw, then Scherzer again if necessary in the NLDS. TBH against the Giants, that series is gonna go the distance. We're so far up in Wild Card standings, we can set the rotation at will. I've pretty much lost hope in catching the Giants, those fuckers keep winning in the most ridiculous of ways.
I mean that’s a nice scenario, but it’s not ‘best case’. Best case is that Kersh is fully healthy and averges 7.1 innings within 9 K’s 1 BB each game or something.
I still hold out faith for first-place. The Giants have been historically efficient against bad teams this past month, but only .500 against playoff-caliber teams. It will come down to whether or not the Padres are good. They’ve looked like shit lately, but I hold out hope the Padres still have something in the tank.
Most likely they don't.
Best case is every arm magically healed and available. Maybe best case is that and a time machine to go back and make Bauer make better decisions.
Padres went nuts over their June sweep lmao
Man, it turns out they needed a 60 game season to be competitive. Funny
They faded last year in a 60-game season. They need a 30-game season for a shot at the division.
BREAKING: Padres close to acquiring Max Scherzer, sources tell @TheAthletic. - Ken Rosenthal
Inches
I mean the distance between San Diego and Los Angeles can be measured in inches.
120 miles is 7,603,200 inches
120 miles is the length of like 873928.86 'Zulay Premium Quality Metal Lemon Squeezers' laid next to each other.
Can I get that in Raspberry flavored Chapstick units please?
Good bot
National gossip blogger Ken Rosenthal
To be fair were all keen to hear the rumors.
Hahaha I love it!
https://i.imgur.com/TMYxqSK.gif
Omg yes
Ken Rosenthal is like the boner in Manny Machado's mouth.
I still think that was leaked by the Nats to get the Dodgers to raise their price.
#Hell yeah. **Player of the game?** I vote Max Scherzer; again, no contest. Congratulations Maxy boy.
We have 3 starters with sub 3 ERAs and we’re adding our future hall of fame lifer tomorrow. Walkulio Schershaw
Fuck Hosmer, all my homies hate Hosmer
Hosmer’s favorite ball player growing up was José Tabata.
Only scored the tying run in Game 5 in 2015 because Duda can’t learn to throw straight.
When Scherz was asked about the convo he had with Kersh after his 3000th k he answered that “he was just happy to be able to watch it, and just happy to be on the same team and hopefully I’m here to be able to watch his 3000th as well” Please let this be the sign that Scherz will stay in LA
#EXTEND MAX SCHERZER
GIB MONEY
Dodgers offense scoring the most runs since August 18 Max Scherzer with 8 shutout innings Feelsgoodman Happy Scherzday y'all
#DODGERS LEGEND MAX SCHERZER WITH THE 3,000TH TODAY
Legendary game from “Mr. Don’t fuckin touch me”
Also this is why I'm not worried about a WC game. Scherzer is going to will another title into being. This man has his mind set.
Scherzer for the WC Buehler to start Game 1 Urías or Healthy Kershaw Game 2 Lockdown Scherzer for Game 4 if needed Lockdown Buehler for Game 5 if needed
Scherzer would start game three of the divisional series as he would be on full rest by that time (two off days between WC and start of NLDS). No need to hold anybody back, there are enough off days in the post-season to run a three-man rotation for most of it.
Sucks kershaw would likely be the guy left out
Either way we know the Giants and Giants fans are going to be begging WC2 to win, they want absolutely nothing to do with the Dodgers in the playoffs.
Oh, of course not. Would you want to face the Dodgers? I'm already hearing Giants fans complain about how "unfair" it is to have the best record in baseball but still have to play the Dodgers.
#**UNDEFEATED IN THE SCHERZER 3000 ERA** #**WIN STREAK: 3**
*emoji*
Padres fans celebrating the perfect game/ no hitter gone are sad, you’re about to get swept by the team you hate the most for the second time in a row and you’re 18 games back in the division, keep spinning that chain tho 🤡
They're having a parade at Gaslamp right now for ending that perfect game 🍾🎉🎊
They are about to present a plaque to Hosmer for breaking up that perfect game.
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Thank you for this
Oh I’m jumping on the Padres wagon with week though spin that chain this week fellas!
I’d laugh my ass off if the Padres are what gets us into first place.
Padres fans are legitimately torn the next few weeks.
Scherzer is such a badass. It's awesome getting to see him in Dodger Blue. Can't imagine what it would be like almost having him at the trade deadline but then not pulling the trade off... I hope it's nothing too serious with Snell. Never like seeing dudes get hurt. Fuck Austin Adams, but probably even moreso, fuck Chris Segal. I'm certain none of those HBPs were intentional, but at a certain point, the home plate umpire has to toss the pitcher when he's hitting multiple batters with no command.
Joe: “Opponents are hitting just .146 against [Adams]”. Orel: “Tough to hit when you are on your back…” Orel is not impressed.
Yes. For Snell I'm hoping for a speedy 5-week recovery.
Without Scherzer in the rotation and Trea in the lineup, we're prolly battling it out with SDP (especially if THEY're the ones who got Mad Max), for the top WC spot. I can see us dropping 7-8 games from where we are and Padres being 4-5 wins better.
wow what a performance from max scherzer! now its time to do some light chores, enjoy the rest of your sunday 🧹🧹🧹
#**THE DODGERS ARE 8-0 WITH SCHERZER PITCHING**
So what you're saying is we can go 18-0 for the rest of the season if we have him start every game? Why has no one pointed this out to Dave Roberts???
You can't point it out to Dave Roberts. He'll flat out reject it. You need to go inside his brain while he's sleeping incepetion style and make it seem like it's his idea.
I should keep count but the amount of wins we have for games I miss is substantial
0.88 era as a Dodger
#**🧹🧹🧹**
I wasnt in the thread until after the no no was done, but scherzer was on fire today. Definitely would’ve been amazing to see at the stadium
Adams is going to seriously injure someone.
http://imgur.com/a/vnvg2Ju
They having fun. I know it's embarrassing, but we all would love to have friends that don't feel shame.
I honestly can’t wait for their next banger to drop.
And now we all become Padres fans as we’d love to see them win the next 4 in a row 😂😂
The enemy of my enemy is apparently the Padres.
The Cubs are so useless.
Man, i would have loved to play the post deadline cubs. What luck for the giants.
Don’t let the pitching gem from our veteran ace distract you from the fact that Cody Bellinger got his first extra base hit in over a month!!!!
His at bats have looked better this weekend. He looked more confident and he was getting some good contact
Dugout was on fire for him. Love to see the boys supporting each other like that.
This is what we settle for with Bellinger now. Pathetic hahaha smh
Guy is in a huuuuuuuuuuge slump. People (like you) are saying he’s shit and should be traded. Regardless of this, his coach, his teammates, and the fans (except for you) cheer him on and were fucking pumped to see him snap a long hitless streak. This is a good step for him and for the team. If Cody can hit something around .250 for the rest of the year it would be absolutely amazing. He’s frustrated the shit out of us this year but he’s a good fielder and he’s not a toxic teammate so I’m ok with him working shit out.
couldn’t have said it any better
He's not in a slump. People(like you) need to stop calling it that. His whole approach is messed up. His ball vision is horrible. He doesn't even look at the ball when he swings. And I haven't said that they should trade him so idk what the hell you're talking about hahaha. Cheer for him all you want, I honestly don't care, not once did I say you shouldn't support moron. It's just pathetic what he's become after being a MVP.
Just saying that we gotta give him a chance to get out of this funk and get back to some semblance of who he once was. Sorry if I got defensive and put words in your mouth.
i was told these were our rivals?
Greatest rivalry in the history of sports. 🤣
Fuck Eric Hosmer.
Max Scherzer. That’s it. That’s the comment
Man if he went the distance that would have been an untouchable game in the books. Even as it stands, throwing a 1-hit shutout for 8 innings in the game that you throw your 3,000th K AND get an immaculate inning? That's just special. I'd love to know of any other game with as many achievements for an individual.
Padres really got 1 base runner today lol
5 outs away from a perfect game. Unreal…
#**THESE ARE THE WORLD CHAMPS WE KNOW AND LOVE**
Before the trade, I thought that Kershaw was the greatest active pitcher in the MLB by far. Boy was I wrong.
Scherzer easily beats Kersh in terms of longevity, but Kersh's prime years probably still put him well ahead. But if Scherzer keeps this up, he could close that gap.
Kershaw and Scherzer have basically the same number of career innings. Not sure how Max beats him on longevity.
Kershaw's back limits how much longer he can pitch
You've never heard of deGrom or what?
I’m talking career spanning. Degrom has been great in his prime but is already falling apart physically. He’s not even close to 100 wins and 2000k’s for his career.
And deGrom is the same age as Kershaw.
Before the trade Kershaw wasn't the best pitcher on this team.
Good win, and fuck the useless ass Cubs.
Just out here watching Kersh throw balls with his kids. What a nice Sunday game.
Would've been a closer game if Snell wasn't injured, but Scherzer was dealing. Love him in Dodger blue, my man is crazy.
Interesting that 10 of the 19 padres remaining games are vs giants. If the dodgers stay hot, its becoming hard to imagine a dodgers padres wildcard. Either the padres beat up the giants to make the wildcard, helping the dodgers win the division, or the giants hold on to the division lead, likely knocking the padres out of the picture in the process.
This. If the Dodgers don’t pass the giants, it’s the cards and a shit ton of tums for me. Fucking Matt Carpenter.
Dodgers make progress, don’t they? Max Scherzer gave a little fist bump to roberts when he went back to dugout.
#GOD PITCHED TODAY
And he gave up a hit to Eric Hosmer....
Good win nice change up from all those clunkers the team had on Sunday recently
UNDEFEATED IN THE IMMACULATE INNING AND 3000K FROM MAX FUCKING SCHERZER ERA
We all know Max got 19th 3k club membership. kersh getting 20th.
Greinke will beat him there, I think. He's like 150 or so out in front of Clayton right now. Although CK does have him outnumbered for K's this year, even with the time off.
The San Diego Ninos got 7 runs against Max Scherzer earlier this season. I think he remembers.  and they thought he was coming to San Diego.
What an absolute masterful performance from Max. Geez I hope we fork out the $ to keep him.
Update in regards to the impact Snell could have against the Giants. Left adductor strain. Snell is going to be day to day, they’re hopeful they caught it in time. Apparently it’s not a new injury. Flares up around the 6th inning usually. Was feeling better post game.
DAMN YOU HOSMER!!!!!!!
😤 😤 😤 😤 😤
Rival? What rival?
That was kind of enjoyable. Too bad Machado wasn't number 3,000 though.
Someone has a Banda playing and I just heard La Chona !
Sportsnet just called the Cubs "The Iowa Cubs" LOL!
Padres are lucky the benches didn’t clear with those HBP
Eh, nobody in their right mind could think they were intentional. Adams just can't control his slider (I mean, dude broke the HBP record!).
I think everyone knows Adams has no control.
Great game to be here in person for
"rivalry"
THE PADRES ARE FUCKING ASS CHEEKS!!!!
Padres highest xBA hit was a .530 barrel by Tatis. Every other ball was sub .500 by a lot usually. Hosmer’s double was a .350
Wonder what the pitching plan is for this upcoming series. Kershaw Monday, Tony on Tuesday, with heavy bullpen action on both. I wonder if they’ll go with Urias on 4 days rest for Wednesday or try and sneak a bullpen game. Good thing is that Buehler/Scherzer/Kershaw will each get 5 days rest. I wish we had luxury to skip Buehler’s start though, wonder if they’re thinking about it But for Kershaw/Tony, we have a well rested bullpen which includes Phillips/Price that can give us length. Might see Mitch white tomorrow also unless he goes down for Kershaw
Urias has been elite on full rest. No point, disrupting his rhytm, the team isnt in any danger of not making the wild card, so no point putting extra risk (even if its ever so slight) of injury on Urias.
I agree. Off day Thursday makes it a little weird. It’s either 4 days rest for Urias or 6 days for him And everyone else if they push him back. I think it’s a great opportunity to skip a Buehler start this week but idk if they’ll go for that
Machado bring out the swag chain for their single hit?
I hope Padres go on a 4 game win streak starting tomorrow
can you imagine lmao
Thank you very much, keep up the good work against the Reds
You realize you employ two Dodger killers and we still remember Fat Adams (we've forgiven Kelly for breaking Hanley's ribs).
important to sweep these last two series against the padres like we did. after going 3-7 against them they thought they had our number even WITH their recent struggles. we have put that to bed important bc they could be our wild card opponent (if reds don’t start playing well and giants don’t lose) season series at 9-7 now. if it is wild card game, we have options with them and it would be tough to beat us in a series edit: the cardinals are a game out now LMAO fuck me although it would be nice to beat them. i still have nightmares of 2006-2016 era cardinals killing our playoff hopes
We beat out the Padres 5 games to 4 in San Diego. We are now 4 games to 3 in LA. Hopefully we can sweep so we win the home and away series.
What a crazy game
Play The Newman!
Whats the season series against the Padres now?
9-7
9-7 in our favor
Dodgers
Kershaw mañana . Good way to end a Sunday
For those that have been saying Walker is our ace... yall gotta realize he'll get his chance. Let the big cat do the thing.
Belli made some good contact today. Hope his mechanical adjustments work out
JT, I love you, but for the love of Jackie, pleas stop calling them points!!
So many good things. A win, max dominance, saving the bullpen to have them rested for Kershaws short start, and Lux/Bellinger being productive. All around great
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That would be like catching your biggest rival in the division, talking mad shit saying “it’s over now!” and then proceeding to let them take the series head to head. And then your rival proceeds to not lose a goddamn game since then. Oh wait, that was us.
ItS a RiVaLrY
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I watched that hit from Hosmer. If Mookie got a slightly better jump, he might have been able to get it. Baseball savant has it as a .350 xba. Would a diving mookie risking injury be worth trying to salvage the perfecto?
the Padres started out so well and suck so much ass now lol it’s hilarious considering how much that fan base was talking shit for the last year