“He likes to get on me on days where he outhits me, and I’ll definitely hear about this until his next start”. Greinke amassed eight strikeouts and yielded just one walk while allowing one run on six hits in seven innings.
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Reds: LHP David Holmberg (1-1, 3.06 ERA) makes his fourth start of the season and his first career appearance against LA. “He said ‘do you think we should throw a slider in the dirt?’ I said ‘that sounds great.’ He executed it. It’s nice to go out there, talk about a sequence, execute it and it worked”. “And he’s done that all year, for the most part”.
Latos was following Zack Greinke and Clayton Kershaw, who combined for 14 innings in the Dodgers’ back-to-back shutouts against Washington. The rest of the time, the club has gone 140-135. Greinke is 45-14 with a 2.34 ERA in 84 starts since signing with the Dodgers as a free agent in December 2012.
Los Angeles Angels: Shane Victorino (FD $2200, DK $2700), Mike Trout (FD $5000, DK $5500), Albert Pujols (FD $4000, DK $4200), Kole Calhoun (FD $3500, DK $4100) – I always look forward to stacking up against John Danks and tonight is that night as the Angels get to take their hacks against him.
Post-Greinke, Mattingly got two outs out of Pedro Baez and J.P. Howell and then resorted to closer Kenley Jansen for a four-out save, which he converted without issue. Jansen, who had been tied with Jeff Shaw for second place, registered his 130th career save hours after his wife gave birth to the couple’s second child and first son. Keyvius Sampson (2-1) did enough to win in the five innings of work for his second straight victory. He allowed just two runs on five hits over 5.0 innings.
Los Angeles Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig, right, hits a solo home run as…
The game time temperature was 90 degrees on what had been a scorching day by Los Angeles standards. The Dodgers grabbed a 5-2 lead one inning later. As the Reds continue to try to sort out the rotation they’ll roll out for the coming years, there have been a pile of ups and downs, but the single most solid piece they’ve been able to count on has been Anthony DeSclafani.
“It was a good at-bat by Skip”, Greinke said. “But today was one of those days where I had it back on and said, ‘I can hit.’ The season hasn’t been going as well as I’ve wanted it to offensively, but tonight put my confidence way up there”.
The Dodgers got the runs back in the bottom half of the inning thanks to Pederson’s 23rd home run of the season. For what it’s worth, the big right-hander did finish with seven strikeouts after only recording one in his previous two starts.
Dodgers: LH Alex Wood (7-7, 3.72) will make his second start since being acquired last month from the Braves.
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Reds: RHP Raisel Iglesias (3-4) will face Kansas City on Tuesday night in the opener of a 10-game homestand, which includes a makeup contest against Detroit that was rescheduled from a June 18 rainout.
