Gameday Thread, #137: 8/30 @ Dodgers

Today’s Lineups

DIAMONDBACKS	DODGERS
Geraldo Perdomo – SS	Shohei Ohtani – DH
Ketel Marte – DH	Mookie Betts – SS
Corbin Carroll – RF	Will Smith – C
Lourdes Gurriel – LF	Freddie Freeman – 1B
Blaze Alexander – 3B	Teoscar Hernandez – RF
Gabriel Moreno – C	Andy Pages – CF
Jake McCarthy – CF	Alex Call – LF
Tyler Locklear – 1B	Enrique Hernandez – 3B
Ildemaro Vargas – 2B	Miguel Rojas – 2B
E. Rodriguez – LHP	Tyler Glasnow – RHP

This will probably be a little shorter, because I was expecting tonight’s game to be the same as last night’s, with a first pitch at 7:10 pm Arizona time. However, turns out it’s actually an hour earlier. Not sure why, because it doesn’t appear to be on a national broadcast. The Dodgers did have a weird start time during the week, but that was a travel-related thing on getaway day, which doesn’t apply here. According to Google AI, “the game is an exclusive national broadcast on Fox.” And, kids, that’s

why you don’t trust AI. If you need another example, I asked it about the Dodgers game on August 30, and this is what it told me.

I imagine this news will comes as a bit of surprise to everyone involved, not least Zac Gallen, who was probably looking forward to a leisurely evening in the dugout, after a very solid night’s work yesterday. Sorry, Zac: we need you to toss another six shutout innings. Google said so. But in the event of the score above actually coming to pass, I think I’ll be more than happy with it. In addition: I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords…