The Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Atlanta Braves in tonight's HotCut. Walker Buehler starts for the 31-31 Dodgers. Brandon McCarthy pitches for the 36-26 Braves. McCarthy, you will recall, pitched for the Dodgers from 2015-2017, though he made only 29 starts across that three-year span. This season for Atlanta he has posted a 1.50 WHIP with 52 strikeouts against 19 walks over 63 and 1/3 innings. Buehler has started eight games this season for Los Angeles, bolstering a rotation that is currently without Clayton Kershaw, Rich Hill and Kenta Maeda. Buehler has made eight starts and posted a sterling 1.02 WHIP while striking out 50 batters and walking only 11 across 46 innings (eight starts). Not bad! Tonight's game will start at 19:10 Pacific daylight in Chavez Ravine.
Franmil? Dennys? Jo-Jo? No, we're talking about Alex Reyes for today's HotCut. He makes his return to the major league mound after suffering an elbow injury and undergoing Tommy John surgery in the spring of 2017. by Corn Farmer on Flickr Reyes was sensational on a minor league rehab assignment this May, recording 44 strikeouts in 23 innings while allowing seven hits and seven walks. He will take the ball in mere moments! He faces the Milwaukee Brewers in Milwaukee in a 12:10 central daylight start. Junior Guerra will pitch for Milwaukee. ReyesCut In the first, Reyes allowed a Yelich single, picked him off; recorded a couple of Ks and the inning was over. Now Reyes himself is out on strikes. After one-and-a-half there is no score in the 'Cut. Looking @ the League I want to use this blog as a place to remember. What was happening in baseball late May 2018? I see that Michael Brantley has a hit today. He is a hit machine. His average is .3