Schmidt to start Tuesday; Hendrickson to pen
Jason Schmidt threw a 58-pitch bullpen session today with Grady, Honeycutt, Warthen and Stan Conte all watching. After that, the decision was immediately made to activate him time for Tuesday night's game in San Diego, which is the next time Hendrickson was scheduled to start. So Hendrickson goes to the pen, and the Dodgers, beginning tonight, will have EXACTLY the same starting rotation that I and a handful of others thought they would open the season with at the start of spring training. Not sure who will go down, but it'll have to be a pitcher because they are already carrying 12. My best guess is Eric Hull, who was only called up as an emergency anyway after Grady had to use to many relievers on Thursday night at Washington.
Here's tonight's lineup. Grady told us before yesterday's game that Lieberthal was going to play tonight. Day game tomorrow, and it has been really hot and sticky here, so Martin rests
CF Pierre
SS Furcal
1B Nomar
2B Kent
LF Gonzo
C Lieberthal
3B Abreu
LH Kuo
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Comments
Great news for the Dodgers and Schmitty. Hendrickson did a decent enough job. Actually a lot better than I expected. I was expecting him to get blown away each start like Tomko was. I figure that Schmidt will pitch somewhere in between Wolf and Penny, which should boost the Dodgers a couple games ahead of the Pads and D'backs and on our way to the playoffs.
Posted by: Lukey | June 2, 2007 3:56 PM
Kuo having control issues? what a shock.
Posted by: The_Great_Arcade_Fire | June 2, 2007 4:38 PM
Kuo is using a wind-up tonight. He should ditch it and just go from the stretch like last year.
Posted by: Marcel | June 2, 2007 4:51 PM
Abreu needs to be moved up in the lineup soon if he continues hitting like this. He definitely earned his spot on the roster though.
Posted by: Casper310 | June 2, 2007 5:35 PM
Im weary about hendy even being the pen...he's just not a good pitcher. I know the d's don't really have a choice but i wish they'd ship him somwhere.
Posted by: J.L. | June 2, 2007 5:49 PM