The Dodgers’ game against the St. Louis Cardinals on July 24 will be broadcast by ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball. That means the game will begin at 5 p.m. local time, not 11:15 a.m. as previously announced.
Vin Scully won’t be in the booth for tonight’s game as he rests a sore throat. Charley Steiner and Orel Hershiser will provide play-by-play and color on SportsNet LA, and Rick Monday and Kevin Kennedy will call the game on AM 570.
Scully is listed as day-to-day.
While some Dodgers draft picks have already reported to Arizona for the start of their professional careers, three are still playing for their college teams in the annual College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska.
UC Santa Barbara pitcher James Carter (21st round) and the Gauchos take on pitcher Conor Costello (32nd round) and Oklahoma State in a first-round game today at noon (PT). The game will be televised on ESPN2.
Sunday, Texas Tech pitcher Chandler Eden (25th round) and the Red Raiders take on TCU at noon. That game will be televised on ESPNU.
All three players are guaranteed one more game, either Monday or Tuesday, on one of the ESPN networks. It’s complicated. We’ll update the scenarios after the weekend.
“It’s a dream for me to sit in front of a TV to watch Clayton Kershaw. I’ve seen a lot of good pitchers, but watching Clayton Kershaw, I think, deserves a lot more respect, a lot more attention. … I don’t have enough words to actually say how great I think that kid actually is. .. This kid seems to be getting even better than I was, even better than Sandy Koufax. More exciting than Roger Clemens and Greg Maddux.”
That quote might have come from you, or your pal Steve, or your dad, or your co-worker. I’m repeating it here because it came from Hall of Fame pitcher Pedro Martinez yesterday on SiriusXM’s MLB Network Radio channel with Cliff Floyd and Casey Stern.
Listen to the full context of Martinez’s comments on Kershaw here:
Remember the last time you saw the Dodgers, or the team playing the Dodgers, use an infield shift on defense and thought, “how can any fielding statistics be accurate when they shift so darn much?”
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