Ichiro was 1-for-4.
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“That is something you can’t control”, Urena said of Mattingly’s decision to remove him after 108 pitches. “But I do feel much better now than I did in April”. Facing Ichiro is more fun than facing other batters.
“Look, Dave has been incredible”, Hill said.
Urena allowed only four hits in his 8.2 innings.
If Dave Roberts gets the call as National League Manager of the Year, he might not hear the phone ring over the shouts from angry Los Angeles Dodgers fans. “You just have to be aggressive and go after the hitters”.
Dodgers: RHP Jose De Leon (1-0, 4.50 ERA) will start Monday’s game against Yankees RHP Bryan Mitchell (1-0, 1.00 ERA), beginning a three-game series in NY. “He had depth on that and the movement was good”.
Now that managers are more sensitive to high pitch counts, a no-hitter in progress can become pretty stressful.
He struck out four and walked none while throwing 71 of 108 pitches for strikes. It was by far the longest appearance of his 45 major league games.
Roberts admitted he felt “sick to his stomach” for yanking Hill, but defended his reasoning: “Nothing in my opinion is worth compromising our opportunity to win a championship”. We barreled some balls but just got under them. “He did his job”.
Orioles 11, Tigers 3 • Matt Wieters hit two of visiting Baltimore’s four home runs, and the Orioles chased Jordan Zimmermann in the second inning and moved back ahead of Detroit in the AL wild-card race. Yelich also knocked in his 88th run of the season.
The Dodgers are 43-20 in their last 63 Sunday games, and 51-25 in their last 76 game threes of a series. Their NL West lead was trimmed to three games over San Francisco.
Miami won six of seven in the season series.
“They had our number this year”, Roberts said. Even without the benefit of an extra-base hit, the Marlins were able to produce a few runs.
In Atlanta, Yoenis Cespedes hit a grand slam for NY, and Seth Lugo won his fourth straight start.
Detroit manager Brad Ausmus pulled lefty Daniel Norris after five flawless innings past year, but there was little controversy about that because Norris was on a pitch count following an oblique strain.
Over 27 games and a 14-8 record, Maeda holds a 3.29 ERA with a 1.08 WHIP in 153 innings.
Boston’s Koji Uehara threw a scoreless inning of relief. Hill was making just his third start for the Dodgers after spending six weeks on the disabled list because of blister issues. Yelich, who is hitting.303, had one of the Marlins’ two RBI.
The Dodgers lost two of three in the weekend set.
Harper struck out in each of his first three plate appearances, all against Philadelphia starter Jerad Eickhoff.
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Joc Pederson: Two home runs.
