- Just to pass along info that I'm sure you already know, Clayton Kershaw has been placed on the bereavement list. Don't ask me why. As far as I'm concerned, it's personal business. In a likewise move, this allows the Dodgers to reinstate Hanley Ramirez from the DL without having to send anyone to the minors- just yet.
- In news that makes me laugh because I fail to see why it's news. The Dodgers sent along a press release to let us bloggers/reporters know that the Korean pop sensation PSY will be at the Dodger game today to watch Hyun-Jin Ryu pitch.
- "Day after arrest, Puig homers, hits walk-off single," via Austin Laymance at MLB.com.
- Matthew Reichbach at Yahoo writes, "Juan Uribe Is the Los Angeles Dodgers' Best Option for 3B."
- Nick Green at the Daily Breeze writes about the popularity of bobbleheads in Southern California. He even highlights a LA area hobby shop that specializes in bobbleheads.
Yet they also are incredibly popular among collectors, akin to a 21st century version of the baseball card before that market became saturated and collapsed.
And Southern California, as it turns out, is arguably the bobblehead epicenter.
- We might need to convert Skip Schumaker into a reliever. He came into last nights game to give our pitchers a rest and shut the Rockies down. Eric Stephen at True Blue LA notes that he is now the Dodgers ERA leader.
- To make matters worse, Lilly (who started yesterday's game) has back tightness, via Mark Saxon at ESPN.
The Dodgers are accustomed to carefully monitoring the 37-year-old pitcher's health on a start-by-start basis, so in a way this is nothing new. Lilly had felt a bit of tightness in his back after his previous start in New York last week and it returned in the first inning of Monday night's 12-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies, in which Lilly got hit around for three innings.
- What Jeff Pearlman Said! He writes, "Chris Broussard is embarrassing himself."
I too, however, am entitled to my opinion—and my opinion is that Broussard is a moron. On a day when the first openly gay active American athlete (from a team sport) courageously comes out of the closet, Broussard reacts by … giving us a lecture on homosexuality and sinfulness? Really? Not a lecture on courage, or guts, or what surely must have been a tough decision—but sinfulness? Really?
- Susan Lulgjuraj at Beckett visited the collection of Dick Perez (maker of the Donruss Diamond Kings cards) Baseball paintings in a New York exhibit and shares a bunch of pics.
- Talk about taking things personally. In Japan, a batter asked and was granted a timeout while the pitcher was in the midst of pitching and the pitcher made a wild inadvertent (or was it) throw. Check out a gif and video at Bob's Blitz.
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