Kershaw is 2-4 with a 3.34 ERA and 1.11 WHIP against the Phillies in his career. “There were a lot of emotions. And when you’re on the other side, you realize, ‘Man, it was something special to wear the Dodger uniform.'”.
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Gonzalez, who ranks among the top 10 in the NL in home runs, doubles, RBIs, slugging percentage, has already appeared in four All-Star games in his career.
Manager Don Mattingly and pitching coach Rick Honeycutt opted to leave Kershaw in for the ninth after tossing 105 pitches. Utley is one of the greatest Phillies of all-time, but he’s a shell of his ex- self and does not give the team the best chance to win tomorrow or next year.
“I’d love to get to go”, Kershaw said. “But here I am”.
This pace of play thing is just not working out for the Dodgers, and I’m okay with that.
Mets 4, Giants 1: All-Star Jacob deGrom allowed two hits over eight innings, Eric Campbell hit a two-run homer and New York beat San Francisco to win consecutive road series for the first time this season. “But it was fun”.
For Billingsley, who has been plagued by arm troubles the past three years, it was only his second start since coming off the disabled list on July 2 with a right shoulder strain. He went 7.0 innings, giving up two runs, striking out five and walking two. “I’m pretty sure that I hit a double off the curveball at home a couple years ago, so I had the impression that he wasn’t going to throw that much, and then he whipped that (stuff) out the last at-bat”.
The Phillies got an RBI single in the first inning from Freddy Galvis that was unearned because of a throwing error by third baseman Turner in the inning. The first came on a wild pitch in the sixth, when Kershaw gave up consecutive singles to Maikel Franco and Darin Ruf before retiring the last two batters on popups.
Maybe the best stump speech for Kershaw came from Phillies interim manager Pete Mackanin.
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw waves after…
“You see the need to try and score a few runs but it didn’t work out”, Anderson said about leaving early.
Given recent performances, Thursday’s starter might pose the stiffest challenge of the three.
Billingsley, who missed most of 2013 because of Tommy John surgery and all of 2014 with flexor tendon surgery, was back in town with the lowly Philadelphia Phillies, the team with the worst record in baseball.
Ben Revere added a two-run single in the sixth and Francoeur homered in the seventh for a 7-2 lead.
With Frias ineligible to return from the disabled list until after the All-Star break, the Dodgers will have to find a way to replace him for at least one more start.
RHP Sean O’Sullivan had a rough outing Monday that resulted in him being outrighted to Triple-A Lehigh Valley after the game. Correia was designated for assignment on Tuesday after going 0-3 with a 6.56 ERA in five starts.
The Phillies hit four fly balls that landed in Dodger gloves Wednesday. Also extremely unfortunate for the Phillies is the fact the right-hander hasn’t surrendered a run in his last 27.2 innings, spanning his last four starts.
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Kershaw (5-6, 3.08 ERA) is one of five candidates, along with Johnny Cueto, Jeurys Familia, Carlos Martinez and Troy Tulowitzki, competing in the final vote to join the NL team in next week’s Midsummer Classic. Hernandez is batting. 468 with seven multi-hit games during the run. There are only eight pitchers in the history of the game to accomplish that feat more.
