Michael Grove gives up eight runs in a 9-0 loss to the Cincinnati Reds, capping off a dismal month for Dodgers rookie pitchers.
and Grove to vie for one spot in an injury-ravaged rotation that has a 6.18 ERA in July, the second-worst ERA in any month for the club since the earned run became an official National League statistic in 1912.
Sheehan is 3-1 with a 5.77 ERA in seven starts, striking out 27 and walking 17 in 34 ⅓ innings, but he rebounded from a rocky three-start stretch in which he gave up 17 earned runs and 17 hits in 12 ⅓ innings with a five-inning, no-run, two-hit effort in Saturday night’s 3-2 win over the Reds. “There’s a lot of things going on, and players nowadays are more in tune with that than they’ve ever been,” Roberts said. “But the bottom line is we’re trying to win, we need to win, and the best players are going to play, so performance is paramount.”
Mookie Betts, who is batting .277 with a .943 on-base-plus-slugging percentage, 27 homers and 68 RBIs, missed his second straight game because of a sore ankle, but Roberts expects the dynamic leadoff man to return Tuesday night.
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