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This series has gotten off to a very Coors-y start, with last night’s game featuring a combined 17 runs and 26 hits. Today, the Dodgers will send Clayton Kershaw (2.40 ERA, 3.14 FIP, 0.925 WHIP) to the mound to try to stop a very hot Rockies offense at the league’s most hitter-friendly park.
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Rockies
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5:40 p.m.
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Colorado
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CF
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Pederson |
CF
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Blackmon | |
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SS
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Seager
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2B
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LeMahieu | |
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3B
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Turner
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3B
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Arenado | |
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LF
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Bellinger |
1B
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Reynolds | |
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C
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Grandal |
LF
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Desmond | |
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2B
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Taylor |
RF
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González | |
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1B
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Utley | SS | Valaika | |
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RF
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Puig |
C
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Garneau | |
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P
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Kershaw (L)
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P
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Chatwood (R)
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Kershaw is making his second start of the season at Coors Field, and his third against the Rockies. In his previous Denver start, he went six innings and allowed four runs on eight hits, including three home runs. He fared much better against the Rox at home, allowing two runs on five hits while also notching a season-high 10 strikeouts.
This will be the first time Tyler Chatwood (4.74 ERA, 5.52 FIP, 1.260 WHIP) starts against the Dodgers this season. Chatwood, who missed most of 2014 and all of 2015 due to Tommy John surgery, has faced the Dodgers 11 times in his career, including four times last season (twice at Coors, twice at Dodger Stadium). The Dodgers won three of those four starts. In the game they lost, Chatwood pitched eight one-run, one-hit innings.
Chatwood, primarily a groundball pitcher, throws five-pitch mix which features a four seamer, a sinker and a slider with occasional curveballs and changeups. He has been mostly subpar so far this year, although he’s had two very good starts: a complete game shutout against the Giants in San Francisco, and, his last time out, seven innings of one-run ball against the Diamondbacks in Denver. We’ll see which Chatwood the Dodgers get today.
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As we knew, Andre Ethier isn’t going to be back for quite some time (if ever):
Andre Ethier still feels pain when he runs. Sounds like July at the earliest.
— Andy McCullough (@ByMcCullough) May 12, 2017
Adrián González will be playing in some rehab games next week:
Adrian Gonzalez will play 1-2 rehab games next week. #Dodgers
— David Vassegh (@THEREAL_DV) May 12, 2017
And Hyun-Jin Ryu is getting some additional rest before his next start:
.@HyunJinRyu99 will get pushed back at least 1-2 days.
— AlaNNa Rizzo (@alannarizzo) May 12, 2017
