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Spring Training Recap: Pitchers Struggle As Dodgers Fall To Giants

Sergio Santos

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Pederson popped out, Turner grounded out, and Puig lined out to left for another fast inning. Nicasio gave up a lead off double to Panik to start the bottom of the fifth. Pagan struck out, but Posey hit a fly ball and Panik tagged up. Belt reached base for the third time in the game on a walk, and pitcher Ryan Vogelsong singled to drive in a run. Nicasio then issued a walk to Crawford and the bases were loaded. Matt Duffy singled and two runs scored. After surrendering the single, Nicasio’s day was done. Sergio Santos was the new Dodgers pitcher and got Justin Maxwell to fly out on his first pitch. After five frames, the Giants led 6-3.

The sixth inning started well with Grandal hitting a double and Ethier driving him in on a single. But Guerrero grounded into a tough double play with good defense from Crawford. Kiké Hernandez struck out looking, but the deficit was reduced to two, 6-4.

Santos issued a lead-off walk and gave up a single to Panik to start the inning. Pagan also got a hit, and drove in Aoki. Posey then hit a ground-rule double to tack on another run. With no outs there were runners on second and third. A walk to Belt loaded the bases. Santos finally got an out by striking out Vogelsong, but his day was done. Jeremy Horst came on and put out the fire. A force out at home and a fly out to left and the inning was done. After six frames, the Dodgers were losing 4-8.

Darwin Barney singled to start the seventh and Brian Burgamy walked to put two on with no outs. Travis Witherspoon went down swinging and Vogelsong’s day was done. Javier Lopez came on in relief and gave up a single to Lars Anderson, Barney was able to score. Lopez got the double play and got out of the jam. The Dodgers added a run, and were down 8-5.

New Dodgers pitcher Ben Rowen was received with three straight singles and a run in the bottom of the seventh. But he managed to settle down to strike out one and get the next two batters to fly out. After seven frames, the Giants led 9-5.

In the eighth, an infield single and a walk out put two with one out on for Hernandez, who hit his fourth home run of the spring and the Dodgers made it 9-8. Barney kept the bats hot with a double. Though he was erased when he tried to take third on a grounder. A strikeout wrapped up the inning, but the deficit was cut to one.

The bottom half didn’t go so well for new pitcher, Jacob Rhame. He allowed four straight hits and three runs scored to make it 11-8.

Offensively, the Dodgers were able to score a run, but that wouldn’t be enough and they lost to the Giants.

Dodgers 2015 Spring Training – Mike Bolsinger

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