Joe Wieland made two starts for the Dodgers in 2015. (Getty Images)

This is Part 56 of a series in which every member of the 2015 Dodgers has his season juxtaposed with an episode of the greatest sitcom of all-time. Don’t take it too seriously.

Joe Wieland, SP

Key stats: 0-1, 8.31 ERA (8 ER in 8 ⅔ IP) in 2 starts

Seinfeld episode: “The Gymnast” (Season 6, Episode 6)

Key quote: “I’m back in. She gave me a second chance.”

Joe Wieland is proof that sometimes, you never know what you’re going to get in a new player. A throw-in to the trade that sent Matt Kemp to the San Diego Padres in December 2014, Wieland was once a top-100 pitching prospect. Entering his first healthy spring training in several years, Wieland had the potential to fulfill his early-career promise with a strong camp for the Dodgers.

Wieland’s spring was strong enough, but he was ticketed to Triple-A Oklahoma City to start the regular season. There, he would end up leading the Dodgers’ top farm team in starts (21) and innings pitched (113 ⅔). A professional pitcher could do worse.

Wieland was 3-0 with a 3.60 ERA (and some good peripheral stats: .630 opponents’ OPS, 22-to-2 strikeout-to-walk ratio) when he got his first call-up of the season May 6. He made a spot start in Milwaukee’s hitter-friendly Miller Park proceeded to allow six runs in 4 ⅔ innings. It looked bad on paper, and on Wieland’s final stat line, but the outing might not have been that bad in reality. The Brewers scored five runs in the first inning, then couldn’t get another runner past first until there were two outs in the fifth inning.

Maybe the Dodgers saw the silver lining when they decided to give Wieland a second chance (albeit a long four months later). His spot start Sept. 9 in Anaheim went better than the first. The Angels scored two runs in four innings, then rallied to a 3-2 victory against the Dodgers’ bullpen. Wieland hung around with the rest of an expanded 40-man roster in September, but never appeared in another game.

Wieland’s time as a Dodger ultimately ended after one season. In January, he was traded to the Seattle Mariners for Erick Mejia, a 21-year-old middle infielder.

In “The Gymnast,” George is given a second chance — actually a couple — by a girlfriend who is bothered by his, well, bothersome behavior. First George is caught eating an eclair that he picked out of a trash can. Then his girlfriend’s mother catches him washing the window of a car with a newspaper. Then, this:

Strike three.