“Credit goes to Lobaton and the guys that played their hearts out today”.
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Texas Rangers: Prince Fielder (FD $3900, DK $4800), Adrian Beltre (FD $3400, DK $4000), Mitch Moreland (FD $3300, DK $4400), Josh Hamilton (FD $2800, DK $3800) – The Rangers have a. 387 career average against Pelfrey covering 82 at-bats and they are in a great spot to add to those numbers tonight as Pelfrey has begun to struggle.
In the end, the Nationals made the critical mistake and the Dodgers won 3-0. He has appeared in 25 games this season, going 2-1 with a 5.40 ERA and three saves.
The Los Angeles Dodgers bounced back for Monday’s loss to the Nationals to get the win on Tuesday.
“We ran into a couple of pretty good pitchers the last two days that can do that to a lot of teams, so we have to bounce back from that one and get ready for tomorrow”. “But he pitched really well, he’s been pitching well all year”.
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.
Clint Robinson is starting in right field and batting cleanup versus Dodgers righty Zack Greinke.
Vegas betting expert Steve Fezzik doesn’t expect the bad situation in Oakland to get much better this season.
Desmond went deep in the second and eighth innings, giving him 14 home runs.
Yasiel Puig launched a home run in the fourth inning and a triple in the fifth inning, the first time in his career he had done both in the same game. Brett Anderson, who’s greatly overachieved in 2015, made the start for Los Angeles.
Washington’s five-run sixth inning doomed Los Angeles. They left him in to face Puig with the bases loaded. Replays showed third baseman Yunel Escobar didn’t tag Ethier’s leg before he reached the bag. Kershaw would strike out five more batters (two with his slider, two with his fastball, one with his curve), and allow a total of three hits, before he was replaced by a pinch hitter in the eighth inning. It was the first time he faced the Nationals.
The hard-luck loser was Jordan Zimmermann, who was pretty good in his own right, though no flawless, which he would have had to have been to outduel Kershaw. He has two shutouts this year, and has 197 strikeouts.
Greinke blanked the Nats for the second consecutive start after throwing eight scoreless innings on July 19 in Washington.
Zimmermann has allowed Puig to go 2 for 5, but he’s held Adrian Gonzalez to 1 for 6 with a homer. Carl Crawford led off the bottom of the first inning with a double against Zimmermann (8-8), but was thrown out trying to advance from second base to third on a groundout.
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For Wednesday’s game the Dodgers start Clayton Kershaw who has allowed 116 hits and 43 earned runs while striking out 197 over 154 innings for a 9-6 record and a 2.51 ERA.
