Dodgers grapple with Dee Gordon’s positive PED test

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LOS ANGELES — There were moods aplenty in the Los Angeles Dodgers’ clubhouse Friday, one day after the Miami Marlins’ Dee Gordon tested positive for multiple performance-enhancing substances in his system.

Gordon had an impact on the Marlins’ four-game sweep of the Dodgers this week, delivering the game-tying RBI in the seventh inning Thursday with a single and then scoring an insurance run later in the inning on a balk.

“It is a little unfair that if a guy tests positive that the process takes this long and guys can affect the outcome of games,” the Dodgers’ Enrique Hernandez said. “It’s unfortunate, but as far as that I can’t go any deeper because I don’t know what’s going on.”

Dodgers outfielder Carl Crawford said he was stunned. Crawford said that Gordon is one of the few players he talks to all year round and that the two traded text messages late Thursday after the news spread.

Carl Crawford said he had no idea that Dee Gordon, his friend and former teammate with the Dodgers, was using PEDs. “It was just a shock,” Crawford said. AP Photo/Alex Gallardo

“I texted him last night and talked to him about it and he gave me his side,” Crawford said, declining to go into detail on the conversation. “It is what it is at this point.”

Crawford said he never knew Gordon was using performance-enhancing …

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