Holy smokes, what a week! Three Dodgers absolutely tore it up, starting the All-Star Game, and then the team came right back to snag a huge series win against the Yankees. The boys are sitting pretty at 63-37, the best record in all of Major League Baseball a hundred games into the season. Are you kidding me?
All-Star Power and Birthday Bash Brilliance
The All-Star break was basically a Dodgers showcase, especially with three of our guys starting the game. But the real buzz? Left-hander Justin Wrobleski made his first All-Star team, and dude got to pitch two innings for the National League on his 26th birthday in Philly! Yeah, he gave up a solo shot to an old friend, Miguel Vargas, but Wrobleski punched out five batters. Five! That matches a Dodgers All-Star Game record set by legends like Don Drysdale in ’59 and Fernando Valenzuela in ’86. Those guys did it in three innings, too, making Wrobleski’s two-inning performance even more impressive. He’s only the second Dodger ever to play in the Midsummer Classic on his birthday, after Jeff Shaw back in ’98. Max Muncy also got in on the fun, playing in his third All-Star Game and starting at third base in Philadelphia. Talk about a statement!
Yankees Takedown and Individual Masterpieces
After all that All-Star glory, the regular season roared back to life on Friday, and the Dodgers didn’t miss a beat against the Yankees. We took two out of three in a seriously low-scoring series, winning games that were bookended by 2-1 contests. We dropped one, but snagged the middle game that was rained out Saturday and played Sunday morning. Even that one was a nail-biter until the eighth inning when the squad just exploded for five runs and pulled away. Batter of the week Tommy Edman was straight fire, especially since coming back from the injured list over a month ago. He had two hits and two RBI in Sunday’s first game, then dropped a game-tying pinch-hit home run in the eighth inning of the nightcap. Muncy wasn’t done either, launching a homer off Gerrit Cole Friday night that gave us the win in the series opener. And let’s talk about Yoshinobu Yamamoto, our pitcher of the week. After what they called his “first truly bad start” of the season, the two-time All-Star went the distance on Sunday afternoon against the Yankees, throwing a complete game on only 102 pitches. Seven strikeouts, zero walks, and the Dodgers’ first complete game at Yankee Stadium since Burt Hooton in the 1977 World Series! Also, big shoutout to catcher Eliezer Alfonzo, who got his first major league hit off Ryan Yarbrough on Sunday night, just two weeks after his debut. What a week to be a baseball fan!
The Dodgers are rolling with a 63-37 record, scoring 517 runs to 362 allowed year to date. This team is legit. They’re putting up 3.67 runs a game and only allowing 1.67, with an insane .809 pythagorean win percentage for Week 17. The rest of the league better wake up because these guys are on a mission, and it’s going to be a wild ride. Get ready!
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