Joe Maddon, Cubs not defensive about Dodgers’ lasers

8:26 PM ET

NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Dodgers will pack up their laser rangefinders and head to Chicago, where innovation is apparently less frowned upon than it is in Queens.

Of all the wild things that happened in New York this weekend, from a Clayton Kershaw start on Sunday, to Chase Utley’s two-homer answer to a pitch behind him, to Julio Urias’ rocky debut, the whole issue revolving around the Dodgers’ defensive preparations remained a curious one.

One theory for why the New York Mets might have notified Major League Baseball over the Dodgers’ use of electronics to set defensive positioning is that they are committed to making life as difficult as possible for any team that employs Utley, especially the one he played for in last year’s playoffs.

So how will the Dodgers’ country-club inspired laser rangefinder-measuring system be received when they reach historic Wrigley Field for four games this week?

“I really like the idea of utilizing that stuff just to chart initially, to be able to use GPS [and] try to be really exact where the ball is hit,” new-age Cubs …

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