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Stripling thrilled with win No. 1 despite its flaws
- Updated: May 14, 2016
LOS ANGELES — It wasn’t a 13-strikeout shutout or anything Kershaw-like, but Ross Stripling was thrilled with Major League victory No. 1 on Friday night, warts and all.
In his seventh trip to the post, he decisioned Texas A&M roommate Michael Wacha while the Dodgers were outplaying the Cardinals for an 8-4 win. St. Louis added to its MLB-leading total with four errors, three by rookie shortstop Aledmys Diaz, making four of the Dodgers’ six runs off Wacha unearned.
Stripling lasted only five-plus innings, charged with four runs on eight hits, and he was statistically better in five of his previous six starts that didn’t result in a victory.
“I don’t think we’ll look back at this as the best game we ever pitched, but it was a lot of fun,” said Stripling. “To get the first hit off of him is kind of funny and to get the first win is really cool.”
Stripling enjoyed, and even contributed to, a lineup-wide windfall, with five Dodgers driving in runs and five scoring them. Stripling won a dinner bet with Wacha with his first Major League hit, a single, and he also reached on an error and scored a …
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