Yasiel Puig provided all the offense and Cy Yong candidate Zack Greinke did the rest as the Los Angeles Dodgers righted the ship, snapping their first four-game losing streak of the season with a 5-0 shutout victory over the Washington Nationals on Tuesday night at Chavez Ravine. He’s had surgery on that knee in the past, but there’s no word yet on the severity of this particular issue. Nationals shortstop Ian Desmond? who is hitless in 13 career at-bats against Greinke? went 3-for-4 with two homers and three RBIs’s in the opener of a 10-game road excursion. The win kept Washington 1 1/2 games back of the National League East-leading New York Mets, while the Dodgers lead in the NL West dwindled to 2 1/2 games over the idle San Francisco Giants.
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Anderson (6-7) was charged with seven runs and 10 hits in a matchup of pitchers who specialize in getting ground balls.
” I felt like they were going to be aggressive tonight, so I just tried to work the pitch count and just trying to pound the zone”.
Washington added an eighth run in the eighth inning, thanks to Desmond’s second home run of the game, this time off of reliever J.P. Howell. A pair of hits and a walk by Ross had loaded the bases with two outs for Yasiel Puig, who had homered earlier.
CHICAGO – Whether they’re playing the defending World Series champions or a last-place team, it doesn’t seem to matter to the Chicago Cubs. He struck out only one batter, his ERA rising to 3.42 in the process.
Puig went 2 for 4 and accounted for all five runs in a 5-0 win before an announced crowd of 49,384 at Dodger Stadium. Pedro Baez and Kenley Jansen had scoreless innings in the game. “I just hung it over the middle, and you can’t make mistakes like that because he’ll hit it out of the park”, Ross said. L.A. starter Brett Anderson was charged with seven runs in five-plus innings.
“I wasn’t able to get anybody out”, he said.
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Second baseman Howie Kendrick was placed on the 15-day disabled list less than 24 hours after straining his left hamstring running out an infield hit. His second pitch was ripped for a single to right field; he got out of that inning unscathed only due to hard-hit grounders that found fielders. “I might have been the first time this year I’ve gone eight”. The 2009 Cy Young Award victor bounced back scattering six hits over six scoreless innings with strikeouts. The Dodgers’ Jimmy Rollins, Alberto Callaspo and Yasmani Grandal scored on the play. He allowed four runs in the first inning and six in six total innings, which skyrocketed his ERA to 1.71. The youngster has a record of 3-3 this season, a 2.80 ERA and has never faced a single player on the Dodgers. Lately, he has begun to hit home runs again, and the coaches think he has shed his swing of some bad habits – a tendency to crouch too much and to close his stance and block his hands’ pursuit of inside pitches – through work in the batting cage.
