Where else would 27 year-old Rob Segedin have been considering retirement last year when the Yankees demoted him to AA ball?
Instead, Segedin was traded to the Dodgers, was invited to spring training, shined at Oklahoma City and made his debut at Chavez Ravine yesterday, sparking the Dodgers to an 8-5 win over Boston with two bases-loaded hits and four RBI in front of his expectant wife.Coupled with San Francisco's 1-0 loss to the Nationals, the win pushed the Dodgers to within a game of the Giants in the NL West standings.
Los Angeles has nearly erased San Franciso's lead in the standings and they have done it with a pitching staff held together with masking tape and baling wire. Rookie Ross Stripling won on Saturday and the bullpen bailed out Brandon McCarthy yesterday for the victory.
The Dodgers will put rookie Jose Urias on the hill tonight as the injury-plagued pitching staff tries to tread water in the hope that Clayton Kershaw's ailing back will heal in time for a stretch run.
The Giants have been a sub-.500 team since the All-Star break and the Dodgers have taken series from Washington, St. Louis and Boston to edge back into the conversation for the NL pennant.
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