The phenom’s curse
Sunday’s Jon SooHoo photo highlights can be found at LA Photog Blog.
White Sox at Dodgers, 7:10 p.m.
Kershaw CLXXXIX: Kershawnnie Get Your Gun
Chone Figgins, 2B
Matt Kemp, LF
Yasiel Puig, RF
Hanley Ramirez, SS
Adrian Gonzalez, 1B
Scott Van Slyke, CF
Justin Turner, 3B
Drew Butera, C
Clayton Kershaw, P
By Jon Weisman
“I talked about this with Rickey Henderson. Rickey Henderson could do so many things, it’s almost a curse sometimes, because we always ask for more. Yasiel hits .350 — now we want him to be a perfect basestealer. He does that — now we want him to do this. With all that talent, you think there’s still more there, and at times, we ask a lot.”
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— Don Mattingly, on Yasiel Puig
Today’s news and notes:
- Justin Turner had a .238 on-base percentage and .228 slugging percentage on May 10. Since then, the infielder is 18 for 50 with a .400 OBP and .620 slugging.
- Scott Van Slyke is making his first career MLB start in center field tonight. Below right, you can see him making an easy play on a ball hit to left center late in Saturday’s game.
- Vin Scully is the subject of a lovely profile by Cee Angi for SBNation.com.
- Johnny Monell, recently acquired by the Dodger organization and stationed at Triple-A Albuquerque, was profiled by Christopher Jackson for Examiner.com.
- Nick Gordon, brother of Dee Gordon and likely first-round pick in Thursday’s MLB draft, was interviewed by Zach Links for MLB Trade Rumors.
- “Dodgers’ home plate becomes dinner plate” — a little 1962 Emmett Kelly for you, courtesy of Framework.
