Monday, November 25, 2013

Kershaw wins NL Pitcher of the Month; Dodgers call up Dee Gordon

Key League Baseball announced at the moment to facilitate Los Angeles Dodgers lefty Clayton Kershaw has been voted National League Pitcher of the Month representing July in the same way as producing a 4-1 highest achievement in six starts.

Kershaw furthermore led the National League with a 1.34 time, allowing single seven earned runs in his League-best 47 innings of handiwork. During addition, he held competing hitters to a .161 batting arithmetic mean and tallied 43 strikeouts, while walking truly two.

On July 2, Kershaw irregular his support complete game keep off of the season, blanking the Colorado Rockies in an impressive 8-0 win next to Coors Field. On July 7, the Dodgers ace dominated the rival Giants, allowing truly solitary run in 8 innings of handiwork to earn his third win not in favor of the defending champs this season.

During other Dodgers news, the team at the moment recalled shortstop Dee Gordon from Triple-A Albuquerque with the goal of given that a quantity of insurance in the infield following Hanley Ramirez's contemporary shoulder injury.  The Dodgers furthermore optioned right-handed pitcher Stephen Fife to Albuquerque.

Fife, 26, had been diving well, as seen by the 5.1 innings of scoreless globe he threw recently not in favor of the Cubs on the road. Ramirez, arguably the team's MVP, sustained his injury in to facilitate same Chicago cycle chasing a soar globe into the stands.

Gordon, 25, has thump safely in his after everything else 17 games with Albuquerque and is blessed with tremendous zoom, but struggled in his preceding visit to the bigs, batting single .175.

By Staff of The Daily Sports Herald and news services

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