Todd Coffey To Have Tommy John Surgery, Out For Season
Dodgers relief pitcher Todd Coffey received some bad news on Tuesday, as the reliever is out for the season with a partially torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow.
| Final - 7.3.2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cincinnati Reds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| Los Angeles Dodgers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | X | 3 | 7 | 0 |
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Dodgers Win Was Quite A Trip
It took the Dodgers a while to solve Johnny Cueto but they eventually did, with a little creativity. Luis Cruz pulled out a page from the Elian Herrera hero playbook and drove in the go-ahead run in a two-run seventh inning, leading the Dodgers to a 3-1 win over the Reds on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
Todd Coffey Placed On Disabled List, Andre Ethier Could Soon Follow
Andre Ethier is out of the lineup on Tuesday for the sixth straight game with a left oblique injury, and it sounds like he could miss the rest of the games this week. The Dodgers have resisted placing Ethier on the disabled list, playing a man short for now six games, with hope he might be ready for the Arizona series starting Thursday. But that appears more and more unlikely.
With Season Half Over, Are Dodgers Half Done?
Tuesday night marks the beginning of the second half of the season for the Dodgers, with game number 82. At 44-37 through 81 games, simple math tells us the team is on pace for 88 wins, which would be at the upper end of most preseason predictions.
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