“It would be nice to have five starters who throw 200 innings”. “Just to see that youthful enthusiasm that we’ve seen from a lot of our guys this year is pretty cool”.
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“I’m very happy with the opportunity my teammates have given me, very thankful for their support, and it motivates me to do better on the field”, Puig told MLB.com after the game.
Roberts’ greatest achievement this season might have been touting “not overthinking things” with a straight face as manager of a team with seven former GMs in the front office, an analytics department of indeterminate size and the willingness to explore the potential advantages of everything from organic foods and laser-guided defensive alignments to “neuroscouting” and data-driven training techniques for pitchers.
They’ve gone 35-24 without him and turned an eight-game deficit into a three-game lead overSan Francisco.
De Leon (1-0) gave up four runs and six hits in six innings and didn’t issue a walk. De Leon’s nine strikeouts are the second most by a Los Angeles Dodgers rookie in his debut; Pedro Astacio in 1992 and Kazuhisa Ishii in 2002 each had 10. Like the Rays, a first-place finish is out of sight for the Mets, but they still stand an excellent chance of overtaking the Cardinals to secure a postseason berth.
“There’s no words to describe it”. He reached over and they hugged as De Leon whispered “I did it”, leaving Juan near tears.
Before his first pitch, De Leon scrawled a message in the dirt of his first big-league mound.
Justin Upton hit a two-run homer with two out in the eighth inning, sending Detroit over Kansas City. Still, Kershaw will finish 2016 with videogamelike numbers, and both results- and FIP-based WAR indicate that he has been among the most valuable pitchers in the NL despite a two-plus-month absence. He just attacks. That’s how he pitches. “It’s been a long time coming”.
Yasiel Puig hit a three-run homer in the third that put the Dodgers ahead 3-2. In the broadcast booth, Vin Scully was telling the television audience about De Leon, who was thrilled to get called up before Scully retires at season’s end. He has been a bit of a disappointment in fantasy leagues this year.
If his behavior was the reason Yasiel Puig was sent down to Triple-A last month, then his comments after his first homer since returning to the Dodgers showed progress.
Perhaps that is Roberts’ way of saying that the Greinke changeup might be a little too much for Puig at the plate. “There’s no hard number but I will be aware of usage”, Roberts said. “And it’s giving me good results”.
The Padres 3rd baseman had three hits, including his 15th home run of the year, and drove in three runs but the rest of the lineup could only manage five singles.
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Los Angeles took two of three in the weekend series.
