During his daily pregame press briefing, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly was asked for his best James Loney story.
“Oh God,” he sighed. Sounded like there were a few to choose from.
Mattingly picked one from a couple years back, when Larry Bowa was the Dodgers’ third-base coach, and James did “something on the field” that prompted Bowa to pull Loney aside in a tunnel leading into the Dodgers’ clubhouse.
“I know I’ve told you a hundred times…” Bowa said, in Mattingly’s words.
Loney’s response: “Well, I guess one-hundred and one.”
It was an appropriate anecdote for a player whose sense of humor was at times his best asset this season. Like on Friday, when Loney was asked why he was scratched from the lineup, as trade rumors swirled and Adrian Gonzalez was being scratched from the lineup in Boston.
“I don’t have good numbers against (Nate) Eovaldi,” Loney said. “I’m 0-for-0.”
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