“Some of his misses were by such a significant margin that there was obviously something that was off with him”. “I don’t care where I play, as long as I am in the lineup”, Hernandez said. “Turn the page. It’s done and over with”. “I didn’t have my best stuff and I didn’t have my best control, but I still had to get it done”.
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Two starts ago, he allowed a season-high five earned runs in six innings.
LHP David Holmberg had an bad outing Saturday against the Dodgers.
“This isn’t what we wanted and obviously not what he wants either”, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said. Since joining the Dodgers Latos has pitched 14.2 innings, striking out 8, and giving up 12 runs, for a WHIP of 1.43 and an ERA of 6.75. ERA in innings 4-6 is 4.37.
“I try and simplify everything”. “The ball is coming out of my hand good”.
The Oakland Athletics just can’t seem to string anything positive together in 2015 which is why they are down in the standings. “It is like spring training again trying to get used to a new team and catcher”. It was Gonzalez’s club-leading 23rd home run of the season.
RANGERS 5, RAYS 3: Josh Hamilton homered and delivered the tiebreaking sacrifice fly for Texas in a victory that snapped Tampa Bay’s four-game winning streak. The loss, combined with San Francisco’s win, cut the Dodgers’ lead in the NL West to 2 ½ games. Frazier has hit safely in the past five games.
Yimi Garcia struck out one in two scoreless innings of relief, and Chris Hatcher made his first appearance since going on the disabled list with a left oblique strain and struck out one in a ideal ninth inning.
Joc Pederson and Zack Greinke hit successive solo home runs to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a 2-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Sunday in front of 47,388 at Dodger Stadium.
Hamilton’s sixth homer of the season was a 437-foot blast to right-center field in the second inning for a 2-1 lead. Byrd lined a double off the left-field wall with one out, then Barnhart walked. That opened the flood gates against Latos as Phillips and Suarez smacked back-to-back doubles and the Reds were up four.
But Turner, a seventh-round draft pick by Cincinnati in 2006, responded in the bottom half with his first homer in 62 career at-bats against the Reds to that point. This game will feature DeSclafani (RHP) on the mound against the Dodgers, who have a 56-39 record when they take on a right-handed starter.
Los Angeles is a heavy -240 favorite at home and the Over/Under (O/U) for this matchup is seven runs.
He captured the win in his third start since joining the Dodgers and said while he did not feel any pressure to deliver he wanted to meet his own high standards.
Reds: LH John Lamb makes his major league debut.
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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.
