RECAP: Dodgers 6, White Sox 1
- Updated: March 5, 2015
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After dropping the first game of their Cactus League schedule on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers returned to action today against the White Sox and dominated from the outset with great pitching from ace Clayton Kershaw and a host of relievers.
Just like Wednesday’s game, the Dodgers’ young guys did most of the damage this afternoon, with Joc Pederson (1 for 2 and a run), Kyle Jensen (two-run home run), O’Koyea Dickson (RBI double) and Corey Seager (two walks and two runs) all playing well in back-to-back games.
Kershaw started for the Dodgers in his first game since the memorable playoff loss to end last season, and the results were exactly as expected with two perfect innings and three strikeouts, including a beautiful curveball that caught Sox slugger Jose Abreu looking in the bottom half of the first.
The Dodgers had a lead before Kershaw even stepped on the mound, though, as a Yasiel Puig ground out scored Pederson, who had singled and then advanced to third on a Darwin Barney double to start the game off Sox lefty John Danks.
The 1-0 lead was good enough to hold for the Dodgers until the sixth, when Dickson hit a double to left that scored Seager. Dickson, who homered in the loss yesterday, was 1 for 2, and is now hitting a crisp .500 with a home run and a double through two spring games. Seager, who did damage yesterday as well, finished with walks in both plate appearances and two runs scored to show for his good eye at the plate.
In the eighth, the Dodgers tacked on two more off reliever Michael Ynoa, with Jensen’s two-run home run to right center field.
In the ninth, Alex Guerrero and Darnell Sweeney scored on a Scott Schebler double to make the game 6-0 heading into the bottom half of the inning for minor league reliever Jeremy Kehrt. Guerrero was 1 for 2 today and has shown a hot bat very early this spring as he hopes to make the big league club out of camp.
In the bottom half of the inning, Kehrt promptly allowed a solo home run by minor leaguer Courtney Hawkins that finally put the Sox on the board and gave them just their fourth hit of the game.
Kehrt settled down after the home run, though, and a George Kottaras ground out preserved the 6-1 win for the Dodgers.
Besides Kershaw on the mound for the Dodgers, Brandon League, Chris Hatcher, Joe Wieland (2 innings), Daniel Coulombe, and Ryan Buchter preserved the shut out with quick work of the Sox up until the ninth, only allowing three hits and one walk against eight strikeouts in eight innings between them.
The Dodgers are now 1-1 in their Cactus League slate, and on Friday will play split squad games against Seattle (in Glendale) and at Milwaukee (in Maryvale).
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