The Dodgers salvaged the final game of the series against the Texas Rangers in about the most unconventional way you can. The media is labeling it a "balkoff." With pinch runner Kike Hernandez on third base and two strikes on batter Jimmy Rollins, Third Base Coach Lorenzo Bundy urged Hernandez to fake a break towards home plate to try to rattle Rangers rookie pitcher Keone Kela. Hernandez is no Jackie Robinson but the fake was effective enough to cause Kela to flinch his right shoulder just enough to balk in Hernandez with the lone run of the game. Baseball purists would probably call the move bush league but the Dodgers needed the run and the win using whatever legal means necessary and it worked.
Dodgers starter Zach Greinke cannot get a break....or any run support. His line against the Rangers was seven innings pitched, four hits, and zero runs. He lowered his ERA to 1.81 and does not have a win since May 8 or eight straight starts. Greinke is heading into free agency next season and with the kind of season he is having and numbers he is putting up, the Dodgers probably will not make a serious run at him.
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