Dodgers Digest Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Blog
|
Dodgers
|
Rays
|
|||
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
4:10 p.m. PT
|
Tampa Bay
|
|||
|
LF
|
Hernandez
|
2B
|
Forsythe
|
|
|
RF
|
Puig
|
CF
|
Guyer
|
|
|
1B
|
Gonzalez
|
3B
|
Longoria
|
|
|
DH
|
Turner
|
1B
|
Pearce
|
|
|
2B
|
Kendrick
|
RF
|
Souza
|
|
|
CF
|
Thompson
|
DH
|
Dickerson
|
|
|
C
|
Grandal
|
LF |
Jennings
|
|
|
SS
|
Seager
|
SS
|
Beckham
|
|
|
3B
|
Culberson
|
C
|
Casali
|
|
|
P
|
Wood (L)
|
P
|
Smyly (L)
|
The Dodgers scored a lot of runs yesterday. In fact, the 10 runs they put up matched the total number of runs they’d scored in their previous six games. Hopefully, this is a sign of the offense coming out of the collective malaise it appeared to be under during the last home stand.
Alex Wood will try to help the Dodgers pick up another victory against the Rays. Wood had a strong start his last time out, delivering seven innings of one-run ball, in which he struck out nine and walked one. But Wood’s season to this point has been fairly inconsistent. He’s had two seven-inning, one-run efforts; in his other three starts, he’s allowed at least five runs. Which Alex Wood will we see today?
In five starts for the Rays this season, left-hander Drew Smyly has an ERA of 2.60 (3.17 FIP), and very good strikeout and walk numbers: 10.64 K/9, and 1.56 BB/9. Smyly is a fly ball pitcher, and, the past couple of seasons, he has been prone to giving up home runs. Three Dodgers managed to go deep in yesterday’s game, with a few other shots that just missed. We’ll see if they can get to Smyly tonight.
Elsewhere, Erisbel Arruebarrena has been suspended … again, for somewhat vague reasons:
Dodgers suspend Erisbel Arruebarrena for remainder of season for failure to comply with terms of contract. Same thing happened last year.
— Ken Gurnick (@kengurnick) May 4, 2016
Last season, Arruebarrena appealed his suspension and got it reduced to 30 days. There is no word yet on whether or not he will try to do so with this suspension.
Arruebarrena, better known for his glove (and his really long name) than for his bat, had 45 plate appearances for the Dodgers in 2014, in which he slashed .195/.244/.220. His numbers this season at Double-A Tulsa weren’t much better than that: .182/.224/.400 in 58 plate appearances.
[table id=5/]