After Arizona Diamondbacks missed a serial victory over home dodgers earlier this month, they will get another crack in the World Series champions when they arrive in Los Angeles this week.
The DiamondBacks will open a series of three games on Monday by sending the right-hander Brandon Pfaadt (6-3, 3.73 ERA) to the mound.
PFAADT dominated the 6 1/3 -roundless inning in a victory against home dodgers on May 8. He withdrew six out of six while heading around four strokes and three goals on bullets.
In five lifetime beginnings against Los Angeles, Pfaadt is 3-2 with an MPM of 4.73. He withdrew 10 from the game in a match in Los Angeles on September 1 of last season.
Arizona’s 5-3 victory against Los Angeles two weeks ago with Pfaadt on the mound came in the opening of a series of four games in the desert. The Diamondbacks won two of the first three games in the series before making an 8-1 decision in the final.
Arizona has gone 4-2 since with series, with two victories on the Giants of San Francisco and the Rockies of Colorado.
The Diamondbacks rebounded by a wild defeat of 14-12 against the Rockies on Saturday with a more tamed victory of 1-0 Sunday. Merrill Kelly gave a blow on seven rounds with a summit of 11 stick withdrawals on Sunday, while Starling Marte struck a circuit during the first round.
As if being swept away by the last place of Los Angeles Angels during the weekend was not enough for the Dodgers, they are launching chaos, with a number of starters and key lifts on the injured list.
Not only is the rotation missing Blake Snell, Tyler Glasnow and Roki Sasaki, the back of the surveys of surveys is missing almost all its main weapons with Kirby Yates the last to take the list of injured on Sunday. Among the readers already on the injured list were Blake Treinen, Michael Kopech, Brusdar Graterol and Evan Phillips.
“It is not durable,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, how he was forced to use the lift enclosure. “Personally, I look at every night and I try to understand who is available and how to try to win the game, cover the game, protect players. … I think our beginners will win a certain traction and start going further, because we certainly need it (for) the pen.”
The right-hander Landon Knack (2-1, 5.89) resumed a place of rotation and should take the mound on Monday for its sixth appearance and the fifth start of the season. He made two departures against the Diamondbacks as a recruit last season and went 0-1 with an MPM of 4.82.
Titching is not the only upheaval area for Dodgers recently, the Austin Barnes veterans and Chris Taylor have both removed the list in four days. Taylor was released on Sunday.
The team reduced the links with the two players to make room for the receiver Dalton Rushing – the team n ° 1 prospect – and the Hyeseong Kim inner field player, who were both promising after their debut in the major league this month.
“It is a truly delicate balance to determine the right way to manage stability and continuity in relation to the infusion of new guys,” said Andrew Friedman, president of Dodgers. “Each year, we try to find the right balance. But it was not something in the year we said:” OK, we think in May, that’s what will happen. “It’s just the way things happened.”
– field level media
