Clayton Kershaw began to look like himself again Wednesday, throwing five scoreless innings against the New York Yankees in a 2-0 Dodgers win. The box score is here.
The Dodgers will meet the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in April 2017.
Clayton Kershaw began to look like himself again Wednesday, throwing five scoreless innings against the New York Yankees in a 2-0 Dodgers win. The box score is here.
The Dodgers will meet the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field in April 2017.
The Yankees broke open a scoreless game with three home runs, and the Dodgers couldn’t solve southpaw C.C. Sabathia in a 3-0 loss. The box score is here.
Vin Scully will not call any postseason games on the radio.
The Dodgers say Julio Urias made his last start of the season today.
The Dodgers owned Yankee Stadium — in the stands and on the field — and their six runs in the first three innings Monday held up in an 8-2 interleague victory. The box score is here.
Rookies have made an unusually large contribution to the Dodgers’ success this season.
Ross Stripling and Brock Stewart are scheduled to start the next two games against the Arizona Diamondbacks. That will complete a streak of four straight rookie pitchers (Kenta Maeda today, Jose De Leon yesterday) who will have started a game with the Dodgers nursing a small lead in the National League West standings.
What’s more, the Dodgers are scheduled to use a different starting pitcher in all six games they will play this week.
However, things are about to get normal. (Normal-ish, at least.) After an off-day Thursday, the Dodgers travel to Miami to kick off a 10-game road trip. Here are the probable matchups for that series:
Friday: Clayton Kershaw – Jose Fernandez
Saturday: Rich Hill – Tom Koehler
Sunday: Maeda – Jake Esch
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The Dodgers have boasted about their roster depth all season. Now, one statistic neatly sums up just how often they’ve needed it.
The Dodgers are one of two teams without a current 40-man roster player who hasn’t seen action in a major league game this season. The New York Mets are the other.
It’s not unusual for teams to exhaust their 40-man rosters in September, when active rosters expand from 25 to 40. To do so in mid-August is rare; the Dodgers achieved the feat when Rich Hill made his debut on Aug. 24.
Hat tip to Jason Martinez, found/director of content for rosterresource.com, for doing the research on this.