The new Dodgers starting pitcher, imported from Japan, enjoyed his first big-league game by pitching six scoreless innings with four strikeouts and helping his own cause with a 369-foot solo home run in the fourth inning of a 7-0 win over the Padres.
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For the offense however heading to Coors Field might be just what they need to jumpstart an offense that helped the Dodgers set a record for consecutive scoreless innings to start the season and the Padres who now have 27 innings to start the year without a run.
The Los Angeles Dodgers hobbled into their opening series of the season with 10 players on the disabled list, then danced out of San Diego late Wednesday night with a bit of baseball history.
Tied at 20th for total home runs, San Diego and Los Angeles have each hit zero homers this season.
The Pirates are playing in a more hard division, but they showed how they should stand in it at least through the first three games against the St. Louis Cardinals, winning all three games by a combined eight runs, holding the Cards twice to just one. The Padres have failed to score in their first two games.
With runners on first and third and one out in the sixth inning, the Dodgers’ corner infielders drew in a few steps.
Dodgers (3-0) at Giants (2-1), 4:35 p.m. ET: Dodgers killer Jake Peavy will toe the rubber for the Giants in their home opener. That’s easily a secondary concern at the moment, as the Padres could have given up three runs in the series and still be sitting at 0-3 given the offensive futility. I didn’t execute my pitches. Some of it is obviously a product of having to face one of the best pitchers on the planet in Clayton Kershaw in the opener, but Scott Kazmir followed up with a solid outing as well in his first start of the season.
Zach Britton, the last of four Baltimore relievers, struck out the side in the ninth for his first save.
“There is still perspective here, not to be lost, ” rookie manager Andy Green said.
Starlin Castro hit a home run and drove five runs as the New York Yankees beat the Houston Astros 16-6 to record their first victory of the season.
Even though it’s just two of 162 games, it’s hardly pretty. Seager singled and Adrian Gonzalez doubled ahead of Yasiel Puig’s triple over the head of center fielder Jon Jay that one-hopped the 396 sign. An estimated 40 members of the Japanese media covered Dodgers RHP Kenta Maeda’s major league debut…. Through his first 13 plate appearances, he has six hits, three of which have gone for extra bases, while scoring five runs and driving in another four.
“The fact is, you can win each pitch”, he said.
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Detroit catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia hit a two-run home run and a two-run double to lead the Tigers to a 7-3 win over Miami Marlins. They were outscored 25-0 in the series.
