Here are three things we’ll be keeping an eye on around the baseball world throughout the day today:
1. Blue Jays tie the World Series:
The World Series is all tied up after the Blue Jays managed to get to Shohei Ohtani, who surrendered four runs in six innings of work last night in a 6-2 victory for the Jays. That puts the Dodgers on the back foot somewhat, as they enter Game 5 needing a win to avoid leaving their home turf on the verge of elimination. With that at stake, the Dodgers will turn to southpaw Blake Snell (2.35 ERA) four his second start of the series. They’ll hope for better results than he garnered in his first start against the Jays, as he surrendered five runs on eight hits and three walks while striking out just four in his five innings of work in Game 1. Pitching opposite Snell will be right-hander Trey Yesavage (3.21 ERA), who had a decent but abbreviated outing in Game 1 where he surrendered two runs on four hits and three walks while striking out five across four innings. Tonight’s game at Dodger Stadium is scheduled to begin at 5pm local time.
2. Padres enter second round of interviews in managerial search:
The Padres are moving on to the next stage of their efforts to replace Mike Shildt in the dugout, per reporting yesterday, as they narrow their focus to a group of finalists that includes future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols. It’s unclear which other candidates remain in the mix for the job, although both pitching coach Ruben Niebla and bench coach Brian Esposito were at least part of the first round of interviews. Special assistant (and former Mariners manager) Scott Servais, Rangers special assistant (and former Padres catcher) Nick Hundley, and Cubs bench coach (and former Padres bench coach) Ryan Flaherty have all been connected to the position at one point or another, as well.
3. Twins nearing managerial decision:
While the Padres enter the final stages of their search, a decision could be on the way in Minnesota as well. Jon Heyman of the New York Post suggested last night that the Twins could decide on their new manager by the end of the week, and a quartet of finalists for the job has already been reported: Flaherty and Servais are both in the mix for that job as well alongside former Pirates manager Derek Shelton and Yankees hitting coach James Rowson. Given the overlap in candidates between the Twins’ and Padres’ searches, it’s entirely possible that one of the two clubs making their decision could spur action from the other, particularly if Servais or Flaherty is named manager by either club. Atlanta, Washington, and Colorado have all yet to decide their next manager as well, though in the case of the Rockies that process won’t get underway until a new head of baseball operations is named.
“four” his next start? Really? You’re better than that Nick.
I don’t think anyone is better than a minor mistake. They’re easy to make and easy to miss. Sure, we should definitely have higher standards for a writer on an article hosting website, but I don’t think it means we can be rude to them about their errors.
But I already got the tar and feathers Kapler
I was won to make a minor mistake ounce. Never again.
There is free software for grammar and spelling…
We need to do better in the comments.
There is good human in letting it slide……
Complaining about a free website…
Pointing out mistakes is all everyone on this site does. It just happens to be baseball personal.
What’s wrong with holding a writer responsible for checking his work before they hit send? It’s not rude, it’s helping someone with their job.
Ha ha. lol at holding people responsible. Have you thought about the fact that other people have that role in their job description ? You don’t respect their capabilities ? Feel the need to intervene ?
It’s not like it’s incomprehensible. It’s way ruder than simply moving on.
Whomever is responsible and has it in their job description to check spelling and grammar failed. It’s a job.
So why bother being on this site? So what if that guy can’t hit? Isn’t it rude to say he’s bad at his job?
So what if that front office misses on every pick they make? Saying so it’s just someone you should accept and move on from.
Nice logic.
Information. They give me loads of it every day. One stop shop. It’s great.
Ha ha. Seems perfectly logical. Their work performance is none of my business. So I leave it to them. But Ok. If you think being here gives you the right to play editor and manager……fire away. It’s all humour to me.
That’s the point isn’t it? The editor should do editing things.
It’s the Canadian spelling.
No, he’s not. He’s the new TC Zencka.
We knew what he meant. Why be that guy?
This is one of my favorite world series in years. Not a fan of either team, but what classic games we’ve had. Go Jays!
This really has been a classic. My horse is in the race, but even if the Jays weren’t playing, I wouldn’t be able to deny how entertaining this has been. Looking like it could go the distance for sure.
Dark horse canidate for Twins opening: a put upon concessions volunteer whose just trying to raise $ for his kids 4H club.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Dodgers offense was once again quiet last night.
I feel like the average fan doesn’t understand how prone to slumping this offense is. Names are great but so is hard contact.
Mookie, Edman, and Pages have been ABYSMAL offensively. Mookie needs to move down in the lineup but Roberts would never. Shohei has two duds surrounding him in the lineup right now.
Does playing shortstop take too much out of Mookie that it degrades his hitting ability, or is this the new Mookie on his age degrading decline? Or is he just tired or hurt? Cuz this ain’t the real Mook.
His hitting mechanics are off from the look of his swing.
Everyone take note of the Padres’ second round of interviews and understand that no job paying less than $100,000 should require more than one interview. No phone screening to recruiter to direct manager to owner back to direct manager and then HR. No exceptions whatsoever. Argue with a wall.
I’m sorry I can’t come in for that second round interview, a guy on MLBTR told me it’s wrong. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a wall to verbally abuse.
That’ll show them what they’re missing out on.
My last two jobs I’ve had two rounds of interviews. One with HR, the second with management. Pretty sure that’s how it goes with jobs in general.
I didn’t say that that wasn’t how it goes with jobs in general, I just said that it is inexcusably stupid that the entire job market is like that. Do they want help or not
@Troy, Sorry you didn’t get the second interview. Maybe your thank you email for the first interview did not ring true?
Well you can go ahead and do it differently then when you run your own company, please report back and tell us how it goes.
Somebody has hurt feelings
Great Fall Classic taking shape. Toronto gutted their lineup too early on Monday or they might be up 3-1.
Blown ball 4 call gm 3 was terrible
Should be Jays 3-1 series lead
Hard to say that when a team doesn’t score in 11 innings. That was anyone’s game and neither team seemed to really want it. Bad ABs after bad ABs. Blown strike call but dumb base running and awareness by all involved.
Anyhow, the Dodgers have been outplayed. I’d say only 1/4 of the starts by their starting pitchers have been up to par. The offense has been terrible all postseason, as well as the pen. They picked a bad time to play poorly. I’m guessing that Snell will have a much better game today if he can simply command his pitches better but if the offense doesn’t show up not sure if it will matter.
hard to say?
it was 5-5 after 9
the incompetent amateur ump cost jays a run
woulda been 6-5 final
this is terrible for baseball. every day the sport loses integrity bec of bad umpiring. this is the playoffs. the world f’ing series. they cannot be 90% correct. they cannot be 99.9% correct. they must be 150% correct. that 1 call might be the difference in who wins the championship
While that call was egregious and I am a Jays fan, it’s hard to say a blown call in one of the first few innings in an 18 inning game was the difference.
I need to learn your math
To the simple minded yes. But every pitch is different depending on scenarios like bases occupied. Lots can happen in different scenarios. Definitely blown calls but I believe it was a 96% accuracy in game 3 which I believe is above average. Blaming the umpire is asinine because so many decisions are based on score. If you can’t score a run in 11 innings you don’t deserve to win the game. And yes that also applied to the Dodgers for most of those extra innings.
@chandlerbing my goodness you’re insufferable
Let’s go Canada!
Dodgers offense has been putrid this postseason. Outside of Reds series and a couple of Ohtani individual games this offense has not done much. Very average Blue Jays rotation dominating Dodger bats. I’ve never seen so many pop outs and lazy fly balls from a Dodger offense.
Anyhow if they don’t find answers offensively soon it’s going to be Blue Jays in 6 regardless of what the starting rotation does. Most likely they’ll have to win 2-1 or 3-2 type of games the way the offense is going.
Dodgers look old with Freeman, Betts, Muncy, and Teo in decline. Friedman is going to need to make some major tweaks to this lineup in the offseason. Some of the elite OF prospects are at least a year away and probably at least two years, and no way you can count on them to step up right away and produce. So a trade or two may be necessary along with the free agency market.
Try enjoying the games. The offseason will come soon enough. 😀
Fair enough. I haven’t been enjoying most of the Dodger ABs all postseason though!
Complain, complain, complain and then look up and realize there happens to be another team on the field trying to make those AB miserable.
Then…come Monday or Tuesday pretty sure you will be front row at the parade with your little flag like you’ve supported them all along.
Jays have pitched well especially for their abilities. But if you’ve actually been paying attention to the ABs a lot of it is on the Dodger hitters. A lot of good pitches up in the zone to hit and a lot of them just completely out of sync. Bieber probably did the best job in minimizing good pitches to hit.
Gausman for instance was throwing right down the middle and many center-cut that Dodgers bats were just missing. I think the Dodgers have one win in the pocket already with Yamamoto’s start, because he’s the best pitcher in the league. (I’ve seen Skubal and Crochett multiple times, and Yama is clearly filthier.) So Dodgers just need to figure out one more win…either tonight or Game 7.
If the Pobres are letting AJ choose the manager, then it’s going to be Servais.
As much as I’d love for it to be Albert, AJ’s MO is pretty clear at this point. He’s going to go with the Rat he installed to create discord for the manager that he had in place. Shildty knew exactly what Servais was there to do because he had just played that role for AJ against BoMel. That’s why they almost came to blows.
It was my understanding Schildt had run-in’s with guys below him on the pecking order, like his own coaches and assistants. His standards were too high and he demanded perfection from his underlings (on the coaching side). Servais is very mellow and never raises his voice, can’t see him being an impediment to Schildt.
They always told me Schildt rolls downhill…
In my opinion this has been the best World Series since 2019.
Routine fly outs and a pop out to an infielder is all the Dodgers offense is good for.