LOS ANGELES — Jonathan Hernández pitched the final three innings of Saturday's loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, giving the other six Dodgers relief pitchers a full day of rest amid a time of heavy usage. The Dodgers on Sunday recalled Kyle Hurt from Triple-A Oklahoma City, adding a fresh arm to the bullpen, with Justin Wrobleski placed on the 15-day injured list with left forearm inflammation.
Manger Dave Roberts on Saturday said Hurt was on his way, and because Hurt was just optioned on Monday he would need to replace an injured pitcher in order to be activated before his 15 days were up.
"We have some guys that are ailing," Roberts said Saturday evening.
Wrobleski is closing in on a professional career high in innings and though his innings were going to be reduced anyway by moving to the bullpen once Tyler Glasnow returns from the injured list, this allows Wrobleski to truly rest for at least two weeks. The left-hander has allowed 11 home runs in his last four starts, with 20 runs (19 earned) given up in 19 2/3 innings during that stretch.
Glasnow will make one more rehab start this coming Thursday, expected to pitch five innings and around 75 pitches, before returning to the Dodgers rotation after that. Because of upcoming off days on August 20 and 24, the Dodgers can get by with five starters all on at least five days rest until Glasnow returns.

#hurt #five

Prior to an expected return to the bullpen, Justin Wrobleski is headed to the injured list.
The Dodgers announced on Sunday that Wrobleski is being placed on the 15-day injured list with left forearm inflammation. Wrobleski pitched six innings in a start on Saturday, giving up four earned runs in a 4-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.
Details about Wrobleski's injury and a timeline to return weren't initially clear. With Saturday's game, Wrobleski reached 126 1/3 innings pitched, nearly twice his previous career-high tally of 66 2/3 set in 2025.
Wrobleski, 26, is in the midst of a breakout season in his third MLB campaign. Primarily a reliever in his first two seasons, Wrobleski moved into the starting rotation this season and earned his first All-Star selection.
Justin Wrobleski's next pitch for the Dodgers could come out of the bullpen.

#justin #Dodgers #innings

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers put pitcher Justin Wrobleski on the injured list Sunday because of left forearm irritation.
Wrobleski, who is 11-5 with a 3.56 ERA in 20 starts this season, is second on the team in wins and innings pitched (126 1/3). He gave up four runs on four hits and one walk in six innings in a 4-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday, allowing two two-run homers.
Wrobleski has allowed a homer in four straight games, giving up a total of 11 in that span. He had conceded eight homers in his first 17 appearances.
The Dodgers recalled right-handed reliever Kyle Hurt from Triple-A Oklahoma City in a corresponding move. Hurt is 3-1 with a 4.46 ERA in 37 games this season.
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#Dodgers

LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers keep running into the same problem against the best team in the National League.
When they needed a big swing, they couldn't find one. When Justin Wrobleski needed a clean inning, the home run ball found him again.
And against the Milwaukee Brewers, that was enough.
The Dodgers fell 4-1 Saturday afternoon at Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium, dropping to 74-50 and putting themselves in an increasingly uncomfortable position in the National League race. Milwaukee has spent much of this season showing why it sits atop the league. On Saturday, the Brewers didn't need to overwhelm the Dodgers. They simply waited for the mistakes and capitalized on them.
For Wrobleski, the frustration was particularly difficult to hide.

#league #wrobleski #milwaukee #justin

The Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers played the third game of their four-game weekend series on Saturday night.
After splitting the first two games, Milwaukee started ace Jacob Misiorowski in Game 3, with Los Angeles countering with Justin Wrobleski.
Misiorowski didn't have as dominant a start as we have become accustomed to from him, but he still pitched really well against the second-best team in the National League.
The Brewers starter threw six innings and allowed just one earned run on five hits. He walked one and struck out six.
Misiorowski's biggest strikeout of the night came in the bottom of the fifth inning when the Dodgers had the bases loaded. Shohei Ohtani was up to bat, but the young ace needed just three pitches to notch a strikeout and get out of the jam.

#milwaukee #Dodgers #misiorowski #jacob

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jacob Misiorowski gave up five hits and one run in six innings, Joey Ortiz and William Contreras hit two-run homers, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 on Saturday night in a battle of division leaders.
Misiorowski (12-5) struck out five and gave up one walk. The right-hander topped 102 mph on each of his first six pitches to leadoff batter Shohei Ohtani to get the two-way star to pop out. He also fanned Ohtani and Freddie Freeman to get out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth inning.
Justin Wrobleski (11-5) gave up four runs on four hits and one walk in six innings for the Dodgers.
Ortiz put the Brewers ahead with a 373-foot homer to left in the second to capitalize after Contreras extended the inning with a two-out single. It was the third straight game with an RBI for Ortiz, who is 5 for 13 during a four-game hitting streak.
Ohtani cut the Dodgers' deficit to 2-1 in the third with a two-out triple over the head of first baseman Gary Sánchez into the right field corner that drove in Alex Call.

#gave #four

Justin Wrobleski was an All-Star this year, but there is about to be no room for him in the Los Angeles Dodgers rotation, despite their implementation of a six-man rotation.
Most teams struggle with using a six-man rotation because it cuts an arm out of the bullpen. That has not been the case for the Dodgers for most of the year because, for one, their starters are elite, and one of them does not count as a pitcher on the roster.
Wrobleski, Tarik Skubal, Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki and Eric Lauer are the Dodgers' current rotation, but Tyler Glasnow is close to returning. Shohei Ohtani is taking steps toward a return as well. Snell, Skubal and Yamamoto are not going anywhere, and Sasaki has been phenomenal after the Dodgers got him a bigger glove and did a deep dive into some of his issues.
When Glasnow and Ohtani are back, Wrobleski and Lauer are the strongest candidates to be ***** ped. Lauer is a no-brainer, as he has experience as a reliever and, despite his success with the Dodgers, is the weakest of the six arms. Wrobleski, however, would be a frontline starter on most teams. Roberts confirmed that he would go to the bullpen "at some point in time," according to Dodger Blue.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers are continuing their quest for the National League's No. 1 seed during the 2026 MLB season. The back-to-back defending World Series champions are 74-49, first place in the NL West.
They have achieved this with a good amount of injuries/underperformances from key players. On offense, Kyle Tucker and Mookie Betts have been lackluster. For the pitching staff, Tyler Glasnow and Blake Snell have missed much of the season with injury.
Snell made his first start back on Tuesday. Now heading into the final quarter of the regular season, the Dodgers received an update on Glasnow's back injury. He is scheduled to make one more rehab start before joining the team next week.
The news of Glasnow's impending return also prompted manager Dave Roberts to comment on how left-hander Justin Wrobleski will be used. He will apparently be moving back to the bullpen "at some point in time."
The oft-injured Glasnow has made 47 total starts since joining the Dodgers in the 2024 season. He has made seven starts this season, going 3-0 with a 2.72 ERA. He has thrown 39 ⅔ innings, striking out 49 and walking 13.

#made

The Milwaukee Brewers look to get back on the winning track as they face off with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Aug. 15 at Dodger Stadium.
Follow along for live updates as Jacob Misiorowski (11-5, 1.76) faces off with Justin Wrobleski (11-4, 3.44) in the starting pitching matchup of 2026 all-stars.

#dodger #stadium #follow

Not sure if we have a guest recap today. I didn't hear back from the scheduled recapper, and didn't see them in the GDT either. So just in case, I'm going to throw up a quick one for now: if a proper recap shows up, this one can quietly wander off into the sunset. I think it's definitely worth marking the fact that today was the first time since 2018 that the D-backs have won the season series over the Dodgers. Now, it's still highly likely to be nothing more than a moral triumph. Los Angeles are still 7.5 games ahead of Arizona, so there's unlikely to be any need for any tie-breaker. But it still indicates this team is certainly playing them tougher than some previous years.
And few players deserve that "tougher" label than Eduardo Rodriguez, who threw 115 pitches over seven innings of two-run ball. It was certainly needed, on a day where the team effectively had four relievers off the board. That was a full ten pitches more than any Arizona starter this year. The last time any D-back threw more was more than nine years ago, Robbie Ray tossing 122 on June 30, 2017. [Of course, Randy Johnson passed that number on an almost everyday basis: twenty-one times in both 1999 and 2001] E-Rod scattered five hits and two walks, with nine strikeouts and improved his record for the year to 11-4.
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The offense jumped out on Justin Wrobleski early, putting up a crooked number in both the first and second innings. After a Geraldo Perdomo walk to start the game for the D-backs, Ketel Marte cranked his twentieth home-run of the year into the left-field bleachers, for a quick 2-0 lead. In the second frame, a Ryan Waldschmidt bunt [let's take the arguments as read, shall we?] caused an error which brought home a run, and a Corbin Carroll double gave Arizona a 4-0 advantage. The offense largely shut up shop thereafter. They went 0-for-14 against the Los Angeles bullpen, and were 0-for-7 with RISP. But it was definitely a case of "good enough."
The Dodgers pulled runs back in the third and sixth, but a Freddie Freeman double-play in the eighth, when he represented the tying run, was the end of their real threat. Kevin Ginkel, much-maligned in some quarters, came in for the ninth, notched a 1-2-3 inning with two K's for his first save of the year, reducing his season ERA to 3.60 – pretty respectable, I'd say. There should be some relief (literally) arriving for the team, with the news the D-backs have signed Zack Littell, the former Nats pitcher, likely to act as a long-man in the bullpen. They just have to pay the prorated MLB minimum, Washington covering the rest.

#first #team #angeles #recap

PHOENIX — The Dodgers arrived at Chase Field hoping to salvage something from a miserable road trip.
Instead, they left Arizona with another loss, another series defeat and even more questions about an offense that has gone ice cold.
The Dodgers fell 4-2 to the Diamondbacks on Sunday, finishing a 1-5 road trip with seven runs scored across three games in Arizona. They have now lost three consecutive series for the first time this season and are 70-48 heading back to Los Angeles.
It was another frustrating afternoon for a team that has struggled to consistently generate offense, and it started with the pitching putting them in an early hole.
Justin Wrobleski lasted just 3⅓ innings, his shortest start of the season. The Diamondbacks got to him immediately, with Ketel Marte launching a two-run homer in the first inning to put the D-Backs ahead.

#offense

The Los Angeles Dodgers lost the final game of their three-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks after breaking a seven-game skid Saturday.
Justin Wrobleski got the ball for the series finale, but the problems he encountered in his previous two outings followed him to Phoenix. He lasted just 3.1 innings, allowing four runs while striking out three batters. Wrobleski has allowed 16 runs over his last three outings, as the nine homers through those last three starts are more than he had allowed in all of his previous starts this season combined.
The only home run he allowed on the day came in the bottom of the first inning, when Ketel Marte hit a ball into the home bullpen in left field. The inning nearly ended the batter prior, though the Dodgers failed to turn a double play on a ground ball from Gabriel Moreno.
Aug 9, 2026; Phoenix, Arizona, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski leaves the game in the fourth inning against the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field. Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-Imagn Images
Arizona scored two more runs the following inning, as Wrobleski failed to make a throw to first on a bunt to score Tyler Locklear, who doubled to lead off the inning. Moreno stepped back up later in the inning, and doubled to score Corbin Carroll—making the score 4-0.

#game

Unfortunately for the Dodgers there isn't much you can do when good players don't play well. Justin Wrobleski was an All-Star this season but of late has been nowhere close to that. The left-hander couldn't finish the fourth inning in a 4-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday at Chase Field in Phoenix.
Wrobleski wasn't the only culprit in the Dodgers' demise on Sunday. The offense scratched and clawed all weekend, never scoring more than once in an inning, and plated only seven runs in 28 innings over the weekend. Despite the bad offense, the Dodgers nearly won the first two games after good starting pitching, but blew two ninth-inning leads and had to settle for a split.
On Sunday the Dodgers simply removed the good start portion of their weekend calculus, and played from behind all day.
Ketel Marte hit a two-run home run in the first inning of Wrobleski, the ninth home run surrendered by the left-hander over his last three starts and 13 2/3 innings, after eight total home runs in Wrobleski's first 106 2/3 frames this year. Marte hit a four-seam fastball, the pitch from Wrobleski that has served up six of the nine home runs over his last three starts.
Wrobleski has allowed 17 runs over his last three outings, including four on Sunday, the two runs in the second inning exacerbated by his own throwing error. But that hasn't been his only wildness of late.

#wrobleski

Justin Wrobleski was an All-Star this season but heads into Sunday with plenty of room for improvement after two forgettable starts in a row. Wrobleski allowed four home runs in each of his last two outings, matching his total from his first 17 games and 106 2/3 innings this season.
Fellow left-hander Eduardo Rodríguez is coming off a rough outing of his own, allowing an inconvenient seven runs on 11 hits in a Tuesday loss to the San Diego Padres. The Diamondbacks have won both of Rodríguez's starts against the Dodgers this season, with him going six innings on both June 1 and July 10 with a total of three runs allowed.
Wrobleski in his lone start against Arizona this season, on June 4, he pitched six scoreless innings at Chase Field.
Teams: Dodgers at Diamondbacks
Ballpark: Chase Field, Phoenix

#runs #chase

Eric Lauer surprisingly established himself as a valuable member of the Los Angeles Dodgers rotation after he was designated for ******* ignment by the Toronto Blue Jays.
Amid some pitching injuries, Lauer got a chance to prove his worth to the organization, making eight starts prior to the trade deadline and pitching behind an opener once. In those nine games, the team went 9-0, and Lauer had a 2.96 ERA.
However, trade rumors grew as Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow took steps toward returning to the big leagues. With Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki and Justin Wrobleski also in the rotation, Lauer's spot was in danger, making him a trade candidate. Lauer spoke about trade possibilities with Andrew Friedman before the deadline.
"They had been pretty open with me communication-wise about what they were thinking, what I was thinking," Lauer said. "I expressed to them that I wanted to be a Dodger. So, I think they took that to heart."
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#rotation #deadline #took #thinking

The Dodgers entered the 2026 season with ambitions of becoming team to three-peat in 26 years. Following Monday's trade deadline, they echoed that sentiment with a summer blockbuster and an encore.
Their string of deals began late Saturday night, as after suffering a 3-2 loss to the Boston Red Sox, they struck a deal that infuriated nearly the entire baseball world. The Dodgers landed two-time defending AL Cy Young award winner Tarik Skubal from the Detroit Tigers while sending away outfield prospect Zyhir Hope, right-hander River Ryan and pitching prospect Brady Smith.
The addition of Skubal not only invigorates an already vaunted rotation (when fully healthy), it gives the Dodgers another left-handed option that is a proven innings eater. Before Skubal needed surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow, he had logged at least six innings of work in six of his first seven starts. He hasn't matched his pre-injury average start length since returning on June 13, but he has logged at least five innings in all but one of his nine final starts in Detroit.
For a Dodgers rotation that is still missing Shohei Ohtani, Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow, adding Skubal in the mix keeps the six-man rotation as the norm for the pitching staff down the stretch. With Emmet Sheehan's demotion to Triple-A, the current rotation features Skubal, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Roki Sasaki, Justin Wrobleski and Eric Lauer, and until the other three starters return, the Dodgers could implement a weekly bullpen game. Skubal will certainly headline the four-man rotation in the postseason, and the Dodgers have seven options to choose to accompany him come October.
Gauging what the postseason rotation will be a work in progress until October arrives. Skubal and Yamamoto are shoe-ins at the top, but the final two spots are completely up for grabs. Blake Snell is set to return next week after a final rehab start, while Tyler Glasnow has yet to embark on his rehab ***** ignment. The latter is projected to return sometime in September. Ohtani's status for returning to the mound in the regular season is unclear, though the team expects him back in October. The trio of Sasaki, Wrobleski and Lauer all were used exclusively in relief last year for both the Dodgers and Blue Jays.

#Dodgers #skubal #innings

CHICAGO (AP) — Seiya Suzuki, Carson Kelly and Kevin Alcántara each hit a two-run homer, and the Chicago Cubs handed the Los Angeles Dodgers their fourth consecutive loss with a 10-5 victory Monday night.
Michael Busch drove in three runs against his former team, helping Chicago improve to 2-2 on a seven-game homestand. The Cubs also pulled within 5 1/2 games of NL Central-leading Milwaukee, which lost 4-3 to Pittsburgh.
Los Angeles has dropped six of eight overall after it was swept by Boston over the weekend. Tarik Skubal takes the mound Tuesday night for his first start with the NL West leaders since the ace left-hander was acquired in a trade with Detroit.
Tommy Edman hit a three-run homer for the Dodgers, and Teoscar Hernández also went deep. Justin Wrobleski (11-3) was tagged for seven runs and seven hits over 4 1/3 innings in his first loss since May 22.
Suzuki connected for his 19th homer in the first, driving in Pete Crow-Armstrong after a leadoff single. Alcántara gave the Cubs a 4-3 lead with his first career homer in the second, a two-out shot to left-center after Dansby Swanson walked. Kelly added his seventh homer in the third.

#Cubs #suzuki #kelly

You may never know in Wrigley, but that doesn't mean you don't know early on. And here that was the case with the ball flying out of the yard right from the get-go in a 10 to 5 defeat against the Cubs, with the Dodgers outmatched offensively.
The first inning alone saw five runs cross the plate, as Matthew Boyd had to contend with one of a pitcher's worst nightmares, seeing one mistake turned into a 3-0 game. Tommy Edman hit a home run, driving in Shohei Ohtani and Andy Pages, who had both reached base on soft contacts.
Any idea the Dodgers had of quickly controlling this game went away just as that first-inning lead came. The Cubs immediately countered with a two-run shot from Seiya Suzuki two batters into their offensive performance. And that would be one of three two-run homers in as many innings that Justin Wrobleski would allow, eventually conceding a fourth one as well.
In the second inning, it was Kevin Alcántara helping the Cubs take the 4-3 lead with the first home run of his big league career. From youth to experience, Carson Kelly then managed to isolate the Dodgers number as his favorite victim, knocking a ninth long ball versus LA. Lastly, in Kyle Tucker's first game with the Cubs, it was a different player facing his former club that did the real damage: Michael Busch's fifth-inning solo shot knocked Wrobleski out of the game.
In still a short sample, Busch is building up quite the resume versus his former team with nearly an extra-base hit a game against them (15 in 16), including five long ******* . A pitcher who had allowed just eight home runs prior to his last start, Wrobleski doubled that mark in the span of two games, with back-to-back appearances allowing four home runs.

#Cubs #runs

Tarik Skubal is being traded to the Los Angeles Dodgers from the Detroit Tigers, per multiple reports. Going back to the Tigers in the deal are minor league outfielder Zyhir Hope and minor league righthanded pitchers River Ryan and Brady Smith.
Skubal is the two-time defending American League Cy Young Award winner, having led the American League in ERA in both 2024 and 2025. Skubal received a record $32 million salary in arbitration this past season, and is scheduled to be a free agent after the season. So far in 2026, he has a 2.79 ERA in 16 starts covering 96.2 innings, despite spending time on the injured list due to surgery to remove loose bodies from his elbow.
The Dodgers currently have Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Justin Wrobleski at the top of their rotation, and the addition of Skubal gives them a potent top three to head into the playoffs with. They also have Shohei Ohtani, though he is sidelined from pitching currently, and it is up in the air as to whether or not he will be able to pitch again in 2026.
The return for the Tigers is quite impressive for a player who is heading for free agency. Hope, 21, was an 11th round pick of the Chicago Cubs in 2023, and was sent to the Dodgers in the Michael Busch trade. A corner outfielder, Hope is #55 on the Baseball America top 100 prospect list and #25 on the MLB Pipeline top 100 list. He is slashing .293/.369/.530 for AA Tulsa this season.
Ryan, who turns 28 later this month, was also an 11th round pick, though by the San Diego Padres in 2021. The Dodgers acquired him for Matt Beaty, and he made it to the majors in 2024, putting up a 1.33 ERA in four starts for the Dodgers. He missed all of 2025 due to Tommy John surgery, and has made just eight appearances, all at AAA, having been on the injured list since mid-June due to a hamstring issue. Both MLB Pipeline and BA have him as a top 10 prospect in a deep Dodgers system, with Pipeline having him at #68 on their top 100 list.

#league #tigers #pipeline #season

The Dodgers are acquiring the biggest name of the trade deadline season, adding Detroit Tigers left-hander Tarik Skubal in a blockbuster deal that bolsters their starting rotation and sent shock waves across Major League Baseball on Saturday night.
The deal, according to people with knowledge of the trade not authorized to speak publicly, comes ahead of Monday's trade deadline. The Dodgers are sending prospects Zyhir Hope, River Ryan and Brady Smith to Detroit in exchange for the 29-year-old two-time American League Cy Young Award winner.
Skubal joins a rotation that was already expected to be strengthened by the return of Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow but still had question marks, particularly with Shohei Ohtani continuing to deal with a troublesome left knee.
But now with Skubal joining a rotation that features All-Stars Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Justin Wrobleski along with an improving Roki Sasaki, the pitching staff has been fortified and has considerably more flexibility as the Dodgers look ahead to the postseason and a run at a third consecutive World Series ***** le.
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#tarik #league

In the definition of a back-and-forth battle, the Mariners outslugged the Dodgers with a season-high five home runs in a 7-6 loss for the reigning champs. Neither team seemed capable of holding onto a lead for any meaningful period until the Mariners jumped in front in the eighth thanks to a two-run shot from Dominic Canzone, his second and Seattle's fifth homer of the game.
As different as the seasons of the two starting pitchers in this matchup might be, for one game, they both encountered the same problem, completely allergic to the prospect of a shutdown inning. On four separate occasions, a team took the lead in the first five innings only to see its starter unable to put a zero on the board in the following half-inning.
Justin Wrobleski has thrived this season with the ability to raise his level according to the situation, but what does he do when the opposition ambushes him? The Mariners managed to score five runs off the left-hander without even having a single at-bat with a runner in scoring position against him—courtesy of not two, not three, but four home runs against a pitcher who had allowed a total of three long ****** prior to this game. Cal Raleigh, Julio Rodríguez, Rob Refsnyder, and Dominic Canzone all left the yard. While the homers hit by Rodríguez and Raleigh could be categorized as mistake pitches, the ones by Canzone and Refsnyder came on well-located fastballs at or well above the strike zone—it stands to reason that Wrobleski's heater didn't have the same life on it, or that the M's guessed right on multiple occasions.
For the Dodgers' offense against Castillo, it was an eventful game from start to finish, but one that could've been more dominant. The M's veteran starter allowed a leadoff bomb to Shohei Ohtani and had to deal with trouble in some form or another for his entire outing.
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#runs #Dodgers #dominic

Many expected the Dodgers to be facing the Mariners in the World Series last season, but Seattle couldn't close the deal against the Blue Jays. Now, a year later, they're an inferior team, but one still fighting to enter the postseason. The M's will go with the veteran Luis Castillo for the opening game of this series; potentially good news for a Dodgers offense that scored more than four runs only once in its last five games, making the pitching do the heavy lifting in the road trip's last stop at Citi Field.
A symbol of stability for this young Mariners staff ever since his acquisition back at the deadline in 2022, Castillo has a 3-9 record this season, which is a direct indicator of career-low numbers almost across the board. Lately, though, Castillo has had problems keeping the ball in the yard, allowing five home runs in his last two outings, the losing pitcher of record in each of his three outings this month. Although that 4.85 ERA this season justifies a lousy record, it is also a byproduct of the Mariners' complete inability to provide him any run support, scoring just 19 runs in his last eight starts.
Back to the home runs and how they might come into play, the one Dodger to actually leave the yard against the Mets, Kyle Tucker, is also one of the two who has gone deep against Castillo before. The two home runs in Citi Field were encouraging, but even in this recent stretch, Tucker needs to show more to come close to the player the Dodgers thought they were getting. Hitting at home hasn't been an enjoyable task for Tucker with a .607 OPS at Dodger Stadium.
One player who has definitely enjoyed performing at Dodger Stadium, though, is Justin Wrobleski. The Dodgers' starter has managed to keep an ERA below 3.00 both at home and on the road, but his .461 OPS allowed in seven starts at home genuinely sounds made up. Monitoring how he does with an increased workload in the second half is a priority for the Dodgers.
Teams: Dodgers vs. Mariners

#castillo #runs

Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing fought to end his skid.
He held up on a curveball from Phillies right-hander Aaron Nola that clipped the bottom of the strike zone. He fouled off a changeup. And he stayed disciplined as Nola tried to get him to chase a fastball up and two breaking **** in the dirt.
In a full count, Rushing fouled off another changeup. And then, finally, Nola made a mistake.
Rushing hammered the grooved fastball to left-center field, just shy of the Citizens Bank Park concourse.
Read more: Dodgers beat Phillies, manage Justin Wrobleski with long postseason run in mind

#fouled #changeup

The 2026 All-Star Game festivities have come and gone. The dust has settled, and for the first time since 2024, the American League came away victorious by shutting out the National League 4-0 at Citizens Bank Park on Tuesday.
Scoring was scarce on Tuesday, as the four runs the AL scored came in only two innings. Former Dodgers MVP Cody Bellinger had the deciding hit in his first All-Star Game since 2019, driving in two against Cristopher Sánchez. As a result of him driving in half of Tuesday's final score, Bellinger was awarded with the All-Star Game MVP honors, becoming the first Yankee to do so since his teammate Giancarlo Stanton in 2022.
From being atop the baseball summit, to the pitfalls he experienced with the Dodgers in 2021-22, to reviving his career with the same organization his father played for, Tuesday marked a full-circle moment for Bellinger, as he envisioned being in the All-Star game regularly following his first three big league seasons, writes Bryan Hoch of MLB.com.
"I was like, 'Oh, I'll be here every year,'" Bellinger said. "It took a long time to get back. It's such a competitive league. It's hard to be an All-Star. Health, performance, it all has to come together."
Another former Dodger, though lacking the hardware Bellinger earned in Los Angeles, added the exclamation mark for this year's Midsummer Classic. Miguel Vargas tattooed a 433 foot home run into the second deck of the left field bleachers against Justin Wrobleski, bringing the score to its final mark. With his home run, Vargas now joins Frank Thomas and Magglio Ordoñez as the only White Sox with a home run in the All-Star Game.

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The All-Star Game took place on Tuesday night in Philadelphia, but it was a one-sided affair the whole way. A three-run first inning by the AL gave them a lead that they would hold throughout the game, finishing with a 4-0 victory over the NL.
Even though the hometown ace, Cristopher Sánchez, got the start in this one, pitching at home didn’t help him at all. The AL sent eight men to the plate in the first. The big two hits were an RBI single by Cody Bellinger that scored two, and another RBI single from Ben Rice that scored the third run. Before the NL could even bat, they were down 3-0.
Once they were up to bat, the AL pitching staff nearly held them in check completely. The NL had just two baserunners — a hit and a walk — through the first six innings. They didn’t record their second hit until the eighth inning. As a whole, they struck out 15 batters while allowing just three hits and two walks.
The fourth run for the AL came in the eighth inning, when Miguel Vargas hit a solo home run off Justin Wrobleski. That accounted for the final score of the game.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Dylan Cease struck out the side in the first inning, combining with 10 relievers on a three-hitter in a show of pitching dominance that led the American League to a 4-0 win over the National League in Tuesday night’s All-Star Game.
All-Star MVP Cody Bellinger hit a two-run single and Ben Rice followed with an RBI single in the first against Cristopher Sánchez of the host Philadelphia Phillies.
Miguel Vargas of the Chicago White Sox added an eighth-inning home run off the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Justin Wrobleski, who was pitching on his 26th birthday, for the game’s only extra-base hit. The AL won for the 18th time in 23 games and holds a 49-45-2 advantage overall.
Singles by Juan Soto in the fourth, Pete Crow-Armstrong in the eighth and Otto Lopez in the ninth were the only hits by the NL, which failed to advance a runner past first.
Pitchers combined for 27 strikeouts, 15 by AL hurlers.

The fireworks were delayed, but Miguel Vargas made sure it was worth the wait.
The Chicago White Sox third baseman woke up Citizens Bank Park with an absolute bomb for the first home run of the 2026 MLB All-Star Game in the top of the eighth inning. Vargas connected on a slider on the inner half of the plate from Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski and boomed it 433 feet into the second deck in left field to put the American League up 4-0.
The AL All-Stars got off to a quick 3-0 lead after ambushing National League starter Christopher Sánchez in his home ballpark. But the bats quickly cooled off from both sides after that until Vargas' solo shot in the penultimate frame to break up the pitchers party.
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Robin Ventura struck out against Eric Gagne in the top of the fifth inning of the 2002 MLB All-Star Game. The infamous one in Milwaukee that ended in a tie.
And that was the last time a former Oklahoma State Cowboy appeared in the Midsummer Classic.
Twenty-two years later, Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski is set to become the first MLB All-Star out of OSU since Ventura.
Wrobleski was added to the National League roster in place of injured Reds starter Chase Burns. It’s quite the birthday gift for Wrobleski, who will turn 26 on Tuesday — the day of the All-Star game in Philadelphia.
Wrobleski played one season at OSU (2021) after transferring in from junior college. He made eight starts for the Cowboys, going 3-2 with a 4.20 ERA.

Justin Wrobleski has been one of the best pitchers in the National League this year, but he is not an All-Star.
Despite having the eighth-best ERA in baseball and playing a huge role in the Los Angeles Dodgers having the most wins in baseball, Wrobleski was passed over for All-Star honors. One of the biggest knocks on him compared to other pitchers is how many games he's started, but the quality of his starts should outweigh the number.
"We run a six-man rotation, and I just don't want him to get dinged for not making a couple more starts that he potentially could have had," manager Dave Roberts said on Tuesday. "He's won 10 games for us. To be able to get pitching decisions, you've got to go deeper in games. It's about winning, the ERA is stellar, innings per outing and so I just think that he's performed enough to earn that opportunity."
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On Tuesday, Braxton Ashcraft and Jesús Luzardo were named replacements for the All-Star Game. The two starting pitchers are also deserving of the nod, but both have made two more appearances than Wrobleski. Despite that, Wrobleski is less than 10 innings of work behind both of them.

Justin Wrobleski faces Michael Lorenzen as the Dodgers host the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday.
Teams: Dodgers vs. Rockies
Stadium: Dodger Stadium
Time: 7:10 p.m. PT
TV: SportsNet LA