Dave Roberts won't check Padres' Joe Musgrove for illegal substances
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was “surprised” and “a little taken aback” by New York Mets manager Buck Showalter’s request to have Padres pitcher Joe Musgrove checked for foreign substances before the sixth inning of San Diego’s 6-0 National League wild-card clinching win in Citi Field on Sunday night.
“Buck knows whether it’s gamesmanship or whatever it might be — that was a decision he made,” Roberts said. “I’m sure he had his reasons … I don’t know if I would have taken that approach.” Musgrove appreciated the fact that former players-turned-TV analysts such as Jake Peavy, Mike Lowell and Billy Ripken came to his defense on MLB Network.
Dodgers left fielder Chris Taylor, who sat out the final five games of the regular season because of neck stiffness and did not play in the first two games of the NLDS, returned to the lineup for Game 3. “Last year was … actually, the wild-card game, I felt terrible,” Taylor said. “That was just one of those things where one swing can kind of lock you back in.”
The camera in the Padres dugout was on the far end. The one on the Dodgers’ side was in a more intrusive spot — right by the entrance, where it would have blocked the view from the bench. Further, the visitors’ dugout is notably smaller than the home team’s dugout.
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