Dodgers: Jimmy Nelson Gets the Start in a Bullpen Game Sunday
The Dodgers will throw a bullpen game against the Marlins this afternoon. Instead of having Walker Buehler going on 5 days of rest, Dave Roberts opted to go with a team of relievers to get it done. That should help them as they continue to pitch with just 4 starters in their rotation.
Doc said on Saturday night that the Dodgers would go with Jimmy Nelson to start the game. Nelson was originally a starter in his career and Los Angeles has used him as length in relief.
The hope is that Nelson will be able to go at least 2 innings. Roberts also said that he could potentially go 3 innings depending on how efficient he is able to be. The most pitches he has thrown in a game this year is 26, and that was in his last appearance against the Mariners.
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The Dodgers should have a number of arms available following Nelson this afternoon. They only needed to use 3 relievers in the win over Miami on Saturday. That was thanks to Trevor Bauer going 7 strong innings and throwing 113 pitches.
The Dodgers are hosting the Diamondbacks for 4 games starting on Monday. After that, they head up to San Francisco to take on the first-place Giants for 3 games. That means there will likely be another bullpen game in the very near future.
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nice inning from Vesia, fanning 3;
waiting for some announcer to
follow one of his strikeouts with:
“Ve-SI-a LATER!”
You may hear that if he ever plays for a Midwest team
Bozo outsmarts himself again. He gave the guy who’s struggling the most, more innings and guess what he blew the lead.
I meant to add that we’re lucky to have
the kind of announcers who wouldn’t
say that.
Very well know that the Dodgers are little banged up, but that was a very weak lineup for yesterday’s game ! Isn’t there some better reserves somewhere in this highly rated farm system that the Dodgers suppose to have ? Some of these guys just can’t hit at this level for what I have seen ? But I guess you try to win with what you got and some these highly paid players are doing too much either, oh well ! Go Dodgers