Mat Latos arrived in Los Angeles after last week’s trade deadline in the midst of one of the best stretches of his career.
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In the meantime, third baseman Justin Turner (leg an infection) is returning to Dodger Stadium from Phoenix.
Ranking 16th, Pittsburgh is in the bottom half of the league for its on-base plus slugging percentage (.707). He got into a bit of trouble in the top of the seventh on a two-out single and stolen base by Carl Crawford and a walk to Callaspo, but he got Joc Pederson to bounce to second to complete a second scoreless inning. Only one of those three runners ending up scoring, but it’s still an issue.
“They like the action on my breaking ball and the weak contact I get off of it”, Wood said.
“I was just trying to put a good swing on it and I was lucky enough that it went out”, he said.
Rays 4, Mets 3 – Rookie Richie Shaffer hit a tiebreaking homer in the seventh inning and host Tampa Bay once again rallied from an early three-run deficit to beat New York.
Joe Blanton (3-2) relieved Liriano after three innings and pitched three scoreless innings for his first win since the Pirates acquired him from the Kansas City Royals in a trade on July 30. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said the team did not yet know the severity of the strain but felt certain it would require no less than two weeks of recovery. “So it’s something we can do a little bit more”. Later, in the bottom of the fifth, after Starling Marte walked, Pittsburgh’s franchise center fielder Andrew McCutchen took Wood deep with a two run shot to dead center, his seventeenth homer of the season.
“This win shows the type of team we are”, Caminero said. Alvarez drilled a pitch down the right field line and the Pirates prevailed, 5-4. He added a two-run single during the big inning that put Pittsburgh on top 12-5. He finished with three hits and a walk. The Cardinals now lead Pittsburgh by five games in the NL Central.
Mattingly allowed Johnson to face 10 batters before he removed him and said he didn’t have other options after Saturday’s game became a “bullpen game”. “I can’t do it there”.
The Dodgers’ Adrian Gonzalez had three hits. Andre Ethier, Howie Kendrick and Kike Hernandez all had two hits. He was injured while beating out an infield single in the fifth inning of the Dodgers’ 13-6 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates on Sunday night. Yasiel Puig, who had entered the game on defense that inning, was able to cut the ball off nicely, but his throw into the infield missed the cutoff man and Alvarez advanced to second on the throwing error.
Kendrick had his fifth straight multiple-hit game and is 11 for 23 (.478) during that span. He will have an MRI on Monday.
Jared Hughes allowed a solo home run in the eighth, but avoided further damage, and Antonio Bastardo pitched a 1-2-3 mop up ninth.
NOTES: RHP Vance Worley, who was designated for assignment on July 30, has cleared waivers and the Pirates hope he will accept an assignment to Triple-A Indianapolis.
After faltering badly after the All-Star Game and losing five of six, the Pirates are 11-4 in their past 15 games. Puig went 0-for-9 in the first two games of the series and was 3-for-22 (.158) over his first seven games in August….
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Pirates: LHP Francisco Liriano has won all three career starts against the Dodgers with a 1.37 ERA.
