LOS ANGELES DODGERS (90-66) at San Diego Padres (66-90) RHP Kenta Maeda (16-9, 3.20) Vs
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LOS ANGELES DODGERS (90-66) at San Diego Padres (66-90) RHP Kenta Maeda (16-9, 3.20) vs. LHP Paul Clemens (3-5, 4.48) Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016 | 7:10 p.m. PT | Petco Park | San Diego, CA Game 157 | Road Game 76 (37-38) | Night Game (62-52) TV: SNLA/SNLA Spanish | Radio: AM 570 (Eng.)/KTNQ 1020 AM (Span.)/AM 1540 (Kor.) #FOURPEAT: The Dodgers open their final road trip of the season with MATCHUP vs. PADRES the first of three games in San Diego following Sunday’s NL-West Dodgers: 1st, NL West (8.0 GA) Padres: 4th, NL West (24.0 GB) clinching victory over the Rockies. Following the Padres series, Los All-Time: LA leads series, 436-380-1 (62-54 at Petco Park) Angeles will close out the regular season with three games against the 2016: LA leads series, 10-6 (4-2 at Petco Park) Giants this weekend at AT&T Park. April 4 @SD: W, 15-0 W: Kershaw L: Ross April 5 @SD: W, 3-0 W: Kazmir L: Shields S: Jansen Los Angeles has won five in a row and can match its longest April 6 @SD: W, 7-0 W: Maeda L: Cashner winning streak of the season (6, June 17-22) with a win tonight. April 29 @LA: L, 1-5 W: Buchter L: Hatcher The Dodgers are a season-high 24 games over .500 and have April 30 @LA: L, 2-5 W: Rea L: Stripling S: Rodney reached 90 wins for the fourth consecutive season, a feat that May 1 @LA: W, 1-0 W: Kershaw L: Pomeranz had only previously been accomplished once in franchise May 20 @SD: L, 6-7 W: Quackenbush L: Jansen May 21 @SD: L, 2-3 (11) W: Hand L: Tsao history, 1951-56 (6). May 22 @SD: W, 9-5 (17) W: Stripling L: Perdomo TINSEL TITLETOWN: The Dodgers clinched the 2016 National July 7 @LA: L, 0-6 W: Pomeranz L: Ryu League West Division Championship with Sunday’s victory, their fourth July 8 @LA: W, 10-6 W: Baez L: Cashner straight and 15th overall NL West title, as the club reached the July 9 @LA: W, 4-3 W: McCarthy L: Perdomo S: Jansen postseason in four consecutive seasons for the first time in franchise July 10 @LA: W, 3-1 W: Maeda L: Friedrich S: Jansen history. The Dodgers are the first team in NL West history to win the Sept. 2 @LA: L, 2-4 W: Hand L: Liberatore S: Maurer division in four consecutive seasons. The last MLB team to win four Sept. 3 @LA: W, 5-1 W: Hill L: Perdomo straight division titles was the Detroit Tigers (2011-14, AL Central) and Sept. 4 @LA: W, 7-4 W: De León L: Quackenbush S: Jansen the last NL club to do so was the Phillies, who won the NL East in five CALL HIM ROY: Corey Seager finished a double shy of the cycle on consecutive seasons from 2007-11. Sunday, going 3-for-5, and twice extended the game, with a game-tying triple in the seventh inning and a two-out solo homer to send the game Dave Roberts joins Tommy Lasorda (1977) as the only to extras in the ninth. It was Seager’s 57th multi-hit game (2nd, NL) and rookie managers ever to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 17th three-hit game (5th, NL). Seager is just 10 hits away from becoming division title. In his first year as manager, Roberts has used a the first Dodger since Adrian Beltre (2004, 200) to reach the 200-hit franchise record-tying 55 total players and 31 different pitchers milestone in a single season, and could be just the second rookie in (both records originally set last year) on a club that saw 28 franchise history to do so, along with Johnny Frederick in 1929 (206 different players spend time on the DL, the most for any team H). Seager’s 190 hits are the most by any big-league rookie since 2001, in the last 30 years since at least 1987. when Albert Pujols had 194 hits and Ichiro Suzuki knocked 242. th With Charlie Culberson’s 10 -inning home run, the Dodgers Seager already holds the Los Angeles rookie record for hits clinched on a walk-off win for the first time since 2004, Steve (190), runs (103) and doubles (40) in a single season, currently Finley’s ninth-inning grand slam to beat the Giants (10/2/04). has the highest OBP of any LA rookie (.370) and also remains Since trailing the Giants by a season-high 8.0 games on June in the mix for the top mark in batting average (.313, behind 26, the Dodgers have gone 49-30 (.620), the third-best record Piazza: .318, 1993). in the Majors behind the Cubs (52-30) and Red Sox (51-30). rd th Seager ranks among the NL leaders in hits (3 ), runs (T-4 ), The Dodgers will open postseason play next Friday, Oct. 7 doubles (T-4th), total bases (318, 4th), batting average (7th), against Washington and are 1.0 game behind the Nationals for extra-base hits (71, 6th) and slugging pct. (.523, 10th). the NL’s second-best record/NLDS homefield advantage. According to Stats, LLC, if Seager remains in the NL’s Top 10 HOME SWEET HOME: The Dodgers closed out their home schedule in batting average and slugging percentage, he’d be just the with a 53-28 record (.654), tying for the fifth-best mark in Los Angeles fourth rookie in the divisional era (since 1969) to accomplish history and the second-best home mark in the National League this the feat, joining Dusty Baker (1972, ATL), Mike Piazza season, behind only the Cubs (57-24, .704). With their Los Angeles- (1993, LA) and Albert Pujols (2001, STL). record 55-26 (.679) home mark last year, the Dodgers’ 108 home wins THANK YOU, VIN: Vin Scully called the final home game of his during the last two seasons are their most in LA history and are tied for career on Sunday at Dodger Stadium and addressed the crowd postgame the second most in franchise history for any two-year period (third time), before showing his appreciation for the fans in song, with the playing of behind only the 109 combined home wins in 1941-42. Scully singing “Wind Beneath My Wings.” Scully will conclude his Hall The Dodgers led Major League Baseball in attendance for the of Fame career this weekend and call the Dodgers’ final three regular- fourth consecutive season, finishing with 3,703,312 (45,720 season games at AT&T Park, Sept. 30-Oct. 2. Scully’s call of Sunday’s average) and eight sellouts on the season. It’s the eighth- season finale will be simulcast in its entirety on television - SportsNet highest single-season attendance in Los Angeles history and LA, KTLA - and on AM 570 LA Sports radio. the 15th highest in National League history. HILLTOPPERS: With 10 Ks on Sunday, the Dodgers established a FINISHING STRONG: The Dodgers have the National League’s best new all-time MLB single-season record with 1,459 strikeouts, September record at 16-7 (.696), behind only the Red Sox (18-5, .783) surpassing the 2014 Indians (1,450). In addition to strikeouts, Dodger for the Majors’ top mark. Los Angeles tops the Majors with a 2.44 ERA pitchers rank among the Major League leaders in ERA (3.62, 4th), (56 ER/206.2 IP) this month. opponents’ batting average (.230, 2nd), WHIP (1.17, 2nd) and shutouts (15, T-1st), while the club’s relievers continue to lead the Majors in ERA Josh Reddick ranks third in the Majors with a .397 September (3.21, 202 ER/565.2 IP). batting average, going 23-for-58 with a .435 on-base percentage (7th, NL) nine runs, five doubles, two homers and With a win tonight, Kenta Maeda (16-9) will tie Rick eight RBI in 18 games. Sutcliffe (17-10, 1979) for the most wins by a Los Angeles rookie. A 17th win would rank as the second most ever by a Joc Pederson has the third-highest OPS in the Majors this Japanese pitcher, behind only Daisuke Matsuzaka’s 18 in 2008 month at 1.180, also ranking third in OBP (.484) and placing (18-3), and would be the most victories by a big-league rookie seventh in SLG (.696). Pederson has gone 14-for-62 (.304) th th since 2006, when Justin Verlander went 17-9 with the Tigers. with 15 walks (T-4 NL), six homers (T-7 NL) and 10 RBI in 20 September games. The Dodgers’ 30 wins by rookies this season are the most for the club in a single season since 1952, when it set a franchise OCTOBER BASEBALL: Limited single-game postseason tickets are record with 51 wins by rookie pitchers (Source: Elias Sports on sale now for potential home games for the National League Division Bureau). LA rookies have combined to go 30-22 with a 3.56 Series and NL Championship Series and can be purchased online at ERA (164 ER/414.1 IP) in 108 games (66 starts) this year. Dodgers.com/postseason. UPCOMING SCHEDULE Date/Time (PT)/Opponent Probable Pitchers TV/Radio Wed., Sept. 28, 7:10 p.m. at SD RHP José De León (2-0, 5.52) vs. RHP Luis Perdomo (8-10, 5.59) TV: SNLA/SNLA Spanish Radio: AM 570/KTNQ 1020/KMPC 1540 Thurs., Sept.