Dustin May’s Dodgers debut spoiled by loss to Padres

Dustin May’s Dodgers debut spoiled by loss to Padres

Because of Rich Hill and Ross Stripling being on the IL, Dustin will make two or three begins and after that the Dodgers will go from that point contingent upon how well he pitches. Entering this evening's begin, May has pitched a sum of 106 2/3 innings between AA Tulsa and AAA Oklahoma City. Beginning the most recent two months of the period would probably push him into an innings check the Dodgers would need to evade this season. 

Dave Roberts indicated that Dustin May could move into an alleviation job before the playoffs start in October. That is most likely the best strategy for this season all together for the club to keep his innings at a sensible point of confinement while as yet getting a postseason sway from May. The Dodgers could generally move Dustin to the warm up area in September to begin preparing him for the postseason. 

The Pirates were reputed to request Dustin May as a component of a bundle for Felipe Vazquez and the Dodgers intelligently concluded that was not occurring. As far as stuff, May has messy stuff himself and could rise as a world class help choice for the postseason. May tosses in the upper 90's and has a power sinker that midpoints 96 MPH. 

For his optional contributions, May has a shaper, changeup, and curveball that all have phenomenal development. Because of his high speed and power sinker, Dustin has attracted correlations with Mets' pitcher Noah Syndergaard. His epithets incorporate "ginger Thor" and "Gingergaard". Ideally, after this season he will be known as a World Series champion. 

For the initial five innings, May gave up just a solitary unmerited run. In any case, he neglected to get away from the 6th, letting the San Diego Padres score multiple times to lead the pack on the way to their inevitable 5-2 win before 50,780 at Dodger Stadium. 

"I simply left a few pitches up, they hit them," May said. "They weren't down like they were prior in the game. They hit the slip-ups. Just got the opportunity to improve." 

Lately, new stars have proceeded to appearin the Dodgers' regularly growing universe of youthful ability. That core — which has developed to incorporate Alex Verdugo, Walker Buehler, Will Smith and a few others — circles around Cody Bellinger, who turned into the quickest player in club history to arrive at 100 homers Friday. 

In the interim, Bellinger put the Dodgers in front by impacting a fourth-inning belt-high fastball off Padres starter Eric Lauer — the main runs he permitted — for a two-run shot. 

Playing in his 401st game, he overshadow the 100-grand slam achievement in establishment record time. Past record-holder Mike Piazza required 423 games to arrive at the century mark. 

"It was pleasant to get a lead directly there," Bellinger stated, "and give some cushioning for May in his presentation." 

May couldn't hold the edge, however. In the 6th, Wil Myers, Machado and Hosmer lined consecutive to-back singles to tie it before Josh Naylor jump started a two-out twofold over focus defender Kristopher Negron and off the divider to drive in a couple of runs. 

"I felt that last inning, his pitch check was correct where it should have been," Roberts said. "I thought he had a decent opportunity to receive in return."