Dodgers put Greinke on paternity list, next start isn’t set

The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets end their four-game series Sunday afternoon.

Following the game, the Dodgers optioned pitchers Josh Ravin and Chin-hui Tsao to Triple-A Oklahoma City.

Thomas (1-1) allowed one run and three hits over five innings. He struck out five without a walk and threw 49 of 81 pitches for strikes. “This whole day was like a dream for me”. “I guess it’s the scruff and the hair a little bit but far away from what he’s been doing. Trying to catch up to him is gonna be a long road”. Los Angeles has been struggling at the plate as well. Shortstop Jimmy Rollins added his second home run in as many nights in the eighth. Anderson left his last start this past Tuesday with an irritated left Achilles tendon. After Clayton Kershawextended his own shutout streak to 29 innings in an 11-strikeout, complete-game win over the Mets on Thursday, the team announced left-hander Ian Thomasas Greinke’s rotation replacement for Friday.

Lee was the 14th starting pitcher the Dodgers have used this season, but he was the worst.

All three men could be back in the minors by the time the Dodgers return home Sunday night. “Obviously I wanted to drive him in with a base hit, but I think I did my job there”.

Lee, who was taken with the 28th overall pick in the 2010 Major League Baseball Draftby the Dodgers, began his rise through the system very well by posting a 9-6 record, 3.47 ERA, and 91 strikeouts in 109 innings with the Great Lakes Loons (Single-A) in 2011, which led to a promotion to the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes (Single-A Advanced) for the following season.

Turner homered in the third inning to increase the Dodgers’ lead to 4-0.

Granderson lined an 0-2 pitch for a clean hit to right field Thursday night at Citi Field. Niese proceeded to surrender homers to Justin Turner and Yasiel Puig when he returned to the mound for the third inning before getting pulled from the game because of performance.

Before the game, the Mets promoted top prospect, outfielder Michael Conforto, from Double-A Binghamton, hoping to give their light-hitting lineup a boost.

Although the Texas native thrived in his first month of California League action, May of 2012 brought much different results since he allowed seven earned runs in four innings with the Island Empire 66ers. “So he did”, said Mets manager Terry Collins.

“Babe Ruth could have came back and tried to get them boys out, and it wasn’t going to happen”, Rollins said.

In that first at bat from his seventh slot in the second inning – when the Mets already trailed 3-0 – Conforto ripped the first pitch he saw directly to first baseman Scott Van Slyke for a groundout.

NOTES: LF Michael Conforto is the first Mets position player to appear in the majors one year after being drafted. Niese’s wife, Leah, gave birth to the couple’s second child, Tatum Jeffery, in Toledo, Ohio, on Friday night.