Baseball is Back
ESPN is EXCITED about Blake DeWitt. I think he’ll be here for a couple of weeks, then Nomah will take his job back briefly, before getting hurt again right around the time LaRoche is ready to go.
DeWitt ranked well down manager Joe Torre’s depth chart upon arrival at spring training. But when Andy LaRoche, Nomar Garciaparra and Tony Abreu landed on the disabled list, opportunity knocked. In his Dodgers debut Monday, DeWitt singled off Zito in his first career at-bat, walked twice and scored two runs in a 5-0 victory over San Francisco.
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While DeWitt hits from the left side, one scout said his full-fledged devotion to baseball is similar to David Wright’s.“I loved him when I saw him in high school,” the scout said. “He wanted to hit all day, and he’d do anything the scouts wanted him to do. He’s sort of a baseball rat.”
OK, so the David Wright stuff is absurd. Still, he’s already given the team a nice boost, and I suspect he’ll be around later. Especially if LaRoche can’t ever stay healthy. (And THIS Bowa clip is great fun, as well. Shades of Pinella.)
