Justin Wrobleski continued his impressive spring with three scoreless innings on Sunday in the Dodgers’ 11-7 loss to the Athletics in Mesa
Wrobleski struck out three, with two finished off by his slider and another by his four-seam fastball. The left-hander is in the mix for an early-season spot in the starting rotation, but there’s likely room for him on the active roster even as a bulk reliever.
“I feel like the same guy, I just have a little more experience,” the left-hander told Kirsten Watson during an in-game interview on SportsNet LA. “You can’t get experience until you get experience.”
Andy Pages is also having a nice spring, and got the scoring started with a solo home run in the first inning.
Pages, who also singled on Sunday, has eight extra-base hits in 29 plate appearances this spring.
Notes
Like Pages, Alex Call had two hits in three at-bats, including a home run. Call’s second hit was a two-run single, giving him three RBI.
Dodgers built a 7-0 lead in their first four trips to the plate, but Leo De Vries personally cut that A’s deficit to just one. The 19-year-old consensus top-13 prospect in baseball, ranked as fourth at MLB Pipeline, hit a two-run home run off Kyle Hurt in the fourth inning and a grand slam off Carson Hobbs’ second pitch in the fifth, cashing in all three runs left by Cam Day.
Nick Senzel started Sunday at second base, his ninth start this spring, and reached base all three trips to the plate. His leadoff walk in the six was the taking of CD Pelham’s 1-2-3 inning.
Paul Gervase struck out three in his 1 1/3 scoreless innings, preserving a tie, the most noble task during exhibition season. The 6’10 right-hander has nine strikeouts among his 28 batters faced this spring (32.1 percent).
Jordan Weems, who took the loss in the ninth inning Thursday in Goodyear by allowing four runs without recording an out, allowed four consecutive hits then a two-run double in a four-run eighth inning to decide Sunday’s contest.
Up next
The Dodgers are in Maryvale to face the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday afternoon (1:05 p.m.; SportsNet LA, MLB Network), with Emmet Sheehan back on the mound in his second spring outing and first start.
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