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Stripling’s seven innings a confidence booster
- Updated: August 13, 2016
LOS ANGELES — For better or worse, this season hasn’t exactly gone according to plan for Ross Stripling. He came into Spring Training hoping to remind the front office he was still alive (his words), and ended up in the Opening Day rotation. After two months of short starts, he was sent to the team’s Spring Training facility in Camelback Ranch, Ariz. He found his way back to Los Angeles by way of the bullpen, then reentered the rotation due to a blight of injuries.
That fickle season took another odd turn for Stripling on Friday night, as the right-hander threw seven innings, his longest outing since his 7 1/3 innings of no-hit ball in his debut. But he took the loss as the Dodgers fell, 5-1.
The majority of damage was done in a first inning where only one batted ball reached higher than three feet off the ground. Grounders from the Pirates found holes and slowly built a lead that the Los Angeles offense would never overcome.
“That was a frustrating inning,” manager Dave Roberts said. “Quality of contact, Ross threw the ball well all night long. To his credit, he didn’t show any emotion, didn’t show his frustration. There’s only so much he can do right there.”
Stripling regrouped …
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