De Leon didn’t disappoint, striking out nine in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ 7-4 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday.
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Shoemaker is in his third full season with the Angels, emerging as a rookie in 2014 when he went 16-4 with a 3.04 ERA. With Hill and Kershaw back in the rotation, Los Angeles could be tough to beat in the postseason. He was scheduled to pitch five innings but threw 61 pitches in just two innings while giving up six runs on nine hits and a walk.
Kenley Jansen pitched a scoreless ninth inning for his 41st save.
Yasiel Puig hit a three-run homer in the third that put the Dodgers ahead 3-2 in his second start since being recalled last week after a month-long demotion to the minors.
Yasmani Grandal broke a 4-4 tie with a single that scored Puig in the fifth inning.
Yankees 5, Orioles 2: NY scored three runs in the first after being shut out the previous two games and avoided a three-game sweep.
Before his first pitch, De Leon scrawled a message in the dirt of his first big-league mound.
San Diego starter Christian Friedrich allowed four runs and six hits in 4 1/3 innings of his first start since August 23.
San Diego starter Christian Friedrich allowed four runs and six hits in 4 1/3 innings of his first start since August 23. Adrian Gonzalez struck out, but Puig drew a four-pitch walk against reliever Kevin Quackenbush.
The Los Angeles Dodgers may not have been quite ready to embrace a youth movement before the start of the season, but doing so may end up helping them earn their fourth straight National League West title. Greinke pitched in Los Angeles the past three seasons.
The Dodgers announced on Sunday that Kershaw will return to their rotation Friday night against the Miami Marlins, his first start since a June 26 outing at Pittsburgh. “I think they’re still ironing some stuff out, but at this point it’s still kind of a pitch count deal, making sure that I can contribute and not just go out there”.
Anderson followed Kershaw in Saturday’s game, but was again bothered by a blister and was to meet Sunday with the team’s medical staff. On the other side, the under is 3-1-1 in Friedrich’s last five starts overall and is 5-2 in the Padres’ last seven games when they’re playing the third game of a series. He tossed three innings for the Single-A Rancho Cucamonga Quakes in his first rehab start following a back injury.
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By the time Kershaw returns to the mound, he will have missed 2½ months, and even if he pitches deep into his handful of starts before the postseason, he won’t have the 162 innings needed to qualify for the ERA title (he now has 121).
