No-Tation

It would be a bit of an understatement to say that the Dodgers' pitching staff has been bit by the injury bug. More like, "has been completely devoured by a pack of injury werewolves." Eighty percent of the Opening Day rotation is on the disabled list. Clayton Kershaw went on the DL with a bicep strain, came off, pitched five innings, and then left with a back problem. Hyun-Jin Ryu had a groin muscle tear off the bone. Rich Hill has a finger blister so virulent that he's starting to resemble second-reel Jeff Goldblum in The Fly. 

Fucking disgusting.

While Ross Striping and Walker (I am not Matthew Broderick) Buehler have held the line admirably, the Dodgers are still having to dredge the organizational lake to find guys to start games. Yesterday, they brought up a kid named Caleb Ferguson who only had a couple of AAA starts under his belt.

Ferguson didn't make it out of the second inning in a game that the Dodgers lost 11-9 to the lame Pittsburgh Pirates, even though Matt Kemp had so many hits. Then he was placed into a rotating space triangle and shot into the Phantom Zone.

Today's starter, 22-year-old Dennis Santana (ft. Rob Thomas)




literally got pulled from the game while he was throwing his bullpen warmups when Dave Roberts saw that his slider wasn't sliding. He will almost certainly go on the disabled list with a lat injury. This forced Daniel Hudson, last seen giving up many dingers for the Diamondbacks, to "start" the game, pitching one inning. The bullpen threw the entire game, setting a team record for most men to ever pitch in one game in a Dodger uniform (17). A pitcher named "Brock Stewart", who sounds like a stereotypical frat-boy villain, surrendered a three-run homer in the eighth.

And yet the Dodgers still won 8-7 because Joc Pederson and Cody Bellinger have risen to their statistical mean and are now hitting baseballs very far.

Afternoon delight! #Dodgers pic.twitter.com/CnxiXGwS2V

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 7, 2018

Booya. The Dodgers have now won 15 of 20 games and sit in third place, one-sixteenth of a game behind the Rockies or Diamondbacks or whoever. Screw those other teams. The Blue has actual pitchers lined up for the weekend series with the Braves, and then the next two games, I don't know? Are the Winklevoss Twins available?