McCarthy went 2-2 with a 3.63 ERA in eight starts with the Dodgers this year, Ravin made three scoreless appearances with Los Angeles (2.0 IP) and Walters, who was on the roster of Triple-A Oklahoma City, went 0-for-5 in three big-league games this year.
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The Pirates (59-56) have won two of three games in each of their past three series. Rodriguez had three hits, a walk and four RBIs. His two-run homer to left field in the sixth inning off reliever Jared Hughes was his 17th of the season.
Twins 5, Royals 3 • Brian Dozier hit his 25th home run of the season and the 100th of his career as host Minnesota won. “We’ve been hitting balls hard for awhile now and it was nice to get a game where everyone kind of benefited from it”. Jansen got his 35th save.
Anderson was victimized by the home run ball in the first inning. He also hit a batter.
“I dove and landed on my wrist weird and it kinda stiffended up”, Anderson said of his injury. “I need to get my body where I need it. Mentallly, physically, everything needs to be in line”. There’s a lot of stuff going on just in coming back from surgery. Adding in other layers doesn’t help. His single sparked a five-hit, five-run inning in which all nine batters faced Anderson, whose season debut was brief. “I don’t think we were trying to do anything except fight, scratch, claw our way back into the game”. “They found holes and they were able to going and moving on us”.
The Pirates, who had 10 hits to go with 11 walks, tied a franchise record by leaving 18 men on base. The last time they walked 11 batters in a game was in 2009 at Colorado; they won that game too.
“They were out there; we couldn’t get them in”, Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said.
It makes little sense that the Dodgers should be as successful as they have been while overloading the disabled list to the point that it might violate the fire code.
The Dodgers trailed 6-2, in the top of the fifth inning when Josh Harrison hit a routine pop to right field for what should have been the final out of the inning.
Mariners 4, A’s 3 • Robinson Cano and Nelson Cruz both homered, leading Seattle at Oakland. That spelled the end for McCarthy, who was relieved by Josh Fields. That allowed the Dodgers to remain one game behind the Giants in the National League West. In Sunday’s no-decision against Boston, the righty experienced major command issues, walking five and throwing two wild pitches over 3 2/3 frames.
Seager’s single scored Reddick to put the Dodgers up 4-3.
Yankees 8, Rays 4 • Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge became the first teammates to hit home runs in the first at-bats of their major league debuts in the same game, sparking host NY.
“The offense has been swinging the bats really well, the bullpen’s doing really well and we’re playing good baseball, so we just need to keep building on that”, Pederson said.
By the time left-hander Antonio Bastardo entered in the seventh, the Dodgers already had used five pitchers.
Dodgers: RHP Maeda faces the Phillies for the second time in a week in Philadelphia on Tuesday.
Norris and Liberatore are expected to join the Dodgers during their trip to Philadelphia and Cincinnati and be activated from the DL.
Adding injury to insult, Anderson suffered a mild left-wrist sprain when he fell on his hand while diving in an attempt to stop Adam Frazier’s dribbler after the first-inning damage had been done.
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Pirates: Sidelined since July 2, C Chris Stewart (knee) began a rehab assignment Friday night at Double-A Altoona, catching seven innings.
