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Matt Kemp wasn’t supposed to last long in his return to Los Angeles. He was tabbed as trade bait after arriving from Atlanta in exchange for a salary dump by the Dodgers.
The 33-year-old slugger has made himself at home again in a hurry.
Kemp got three hits and drove in four runs Randy Gregory Jersey , including a go-ahead homer leading off the eighth inning that rallied the Dodgers past the Colorado Rockies 6-4 on Sunday to prevent a sweep and end a three-game skid.
Kemp is on track to earn his third All-Star nod and first since 2012. He’s the second-leading vote-getter, ahead of Washington’s Bryce Harper, among NL outfielders.
”That’s what the All-Star Game is, having a good first half,” Kemp said. ”My real focus is trying to get to the playoffs and win a championship, something I’ve never done.”
Kemp was 1 for 6 in the first two games of the series, which the Dodgers lost by identical scores of 3-1. He has been solid in his last 14 games against Colorado, batting .438 with 11 RBIs.
”He showed in spring training he was in shape and was hitting from the start,” Dodgers starter Ross Stripling said.
Kemp sent his 14th homer of the season over the center-field wall off Adam Ottavino (4-2) to put Los Angeles ahead 5-4. It was the Dodgers’ first homer of July after they hit a major league-leading and franchise-record 55 in June.
One out later, Yasiel Puig doubled. Joc Pederson followed and reached on an infield single to second that DJ LeMahieu dived to stop. Puig made a heads-up baserunning play when he scored an insurance run after taking an extra base on Pederson’s hit.
Puig took advantage of LeMahieu’s soft throw from his knees to first baseman Ian Desmond.
”DJ slipped,” Rockies manager Bud Black said. ”If DJ wanted to do it over again he would probably give a firmer throw to Desmond to get it back in.”
Puig hopped back and forth before taking off for the plate Graham Glasgow Jersey , sliding belly first. He got up and swung his arms in wild celebration with the Dodgers ahead 6-4.
”I do my crazy move and score,” Puig said. ”I said in my mind, `He’s not going to throw me out, I’m going home.’ Not too many players who score from third base in that situation.”
Kemp agreed, saying, ”Everyone is living right.”
Kemp drove in the Dodgers’ first three runs with an RBI groundout in the first, a double in the third and a single in the fifth.
Daniel Hudson (3-2) went one inning. Kenley Jansen pitched a perfect ninth for his 22nd save.
Nolan Arenado hit his team-leading 21st homer and had an RBI grounder, helping the Rockies take a 4-2 lead in the fifth.
Rockies starter Chad Bettis was pulled after three innings because of fluid underneath a callus on his right middle finger. The right-hander allowed two runs and three hits, struck out two and walked two in his shortest outing of the season.
”It is really painful,” Bettis said. ”It is kind of something that is a little bit of a mental block trying to battle through that pain. I felt like it got to the point where I really needed to say something.”
Stripling gave up four runs and a season-high nine hits in six innings. The right-hander struck out seven and walked one.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Rockies: RHP Bryan Shaw (right calf strain) will throw a bullpen session on Monday and simulated game on Wednesday. He is working on mechanics with his delivery and more consistent pitch locations.
UP NEXT
Rockies: LHP Kyle Freeland (7-6, 3.29 ERA) makes his second straight start against the Giants on Monday in the home opener of a three-game set. He is 3-1 with a 2.91 ERA at Coors Field in his career against them.
Dodgers: LHP Alex Wood (4-5 Quenton Nelson Jersey , 4.00) starts on Monday in the opener of a three-game series against the Pirates. In eight games (seven starts) against them, Wood is 2-2 with a 2.86 ERA.
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As the clock continues to tick toward the expected scuttling of the federal law that prevents states like West Virginia from allowing betting on sports, states like West Virginia are preparing to allow betting on sports. Although the hay technically is in the barn for a West Virginia sports betting program that doesn’t give the sports league’s a money-for-nothing “integrity fee,” certain forces within the state’s government have been trying in recent days to wedge payment to the sports leagues into the process.
At the forefront of the effort is Governor Jim Justice, a billionaire coal baron who rose to statewide prominence by purchasing The Greenbrier, luring the Saints, and now the Texans, to hold training camp at the resort. Justice also managed to attracted a PGA Tour event to West Virginia.
He stayed out of the original passing of the bill because of the obvious conflict of interest arising from these relationships. But he’s now trying to strike a backroom deal (literally) that would result in the sports leagues getting something to which they have no legal entitlement.
Some West Virginia legislators, from both sides of the aisle, are pushing back. Delegate Shawn Fluharty, a Democrat Nick Vigil Jersey , addressed the situation during a Friday appearance on the West Virginia Metro News radio network.
鈥淓ssentially what we鈥檙e trying to do is extract money from West Virginia and send it to New York City and billionaire friends of the governor,” Fluharty said.
Fluharty has suggested that a recent closed-door meeting in which the Governor brokered a deal that would result in the state’s casinos, but not the state, paying the “integrity fee” violated the state’s open-meetings law, which requires public business to be done (wait for it) publicly.
The argument in favor of the approach seems to be that there’s nothing wrong with the government brokering a deal between two private entities — the casinos that would be the conduit for betting (with the state getting its cut of the action) and the sports leagues. As noted here recently, however, every penny that the casinos would be giving to the sports leagues is a penny that could be enhancing the state’s share.
Regardless, the state shouldn’t be in the middle of any effort by the sports leagues to get the casinos to cough up free money.
鈥淭his is two private entities,鈥?Delegate Gary Howell, a Republican, to wvmetronews.com. 鈥淭he major league sports in general are all private entities. The casinos are private entities. They鈥檙e free to enter into any private contract that they see as mutually beneficial.聽The two of them can work together on it Case Keenum Jersey , and government has no role in it. Freedom to enter into a contract is totally outside the government鈥檚 realm between two private entities.鈥?/p>
Howell is right, but the government nevertheless feels compelled to swoop in after the passage of a bill that contains no integrity fee and to attempt to get the casinos to give Goodfellas-style tribute to the sports leagues. And Justice, blatant conflict of interest of interest notwithstanding, is leading the way.
鈥淎 PGA representative was at that meeting,” Fluharty said. “They hold an event at The Greenbrier. Are we setting up a quid pro quo situation here? I don鈥檛 believe that鈥檚 in the best interest of the state, and it鈥檚 really troublesome when our governor has yet to separate himself from his public and private life.鈥?/p>
Fluharty is right, and here’s hoping that the closed door gets kicked open to expose each and every spoken and unspoken side deal or incentive or promise or threat that is compelling Justice and his top advisors in this area (one of whom is working for the state at a mere $8.75 per hour, which suggests that the rest of the payoff could come elsewhere) to push this issue. The sports leagues obviously hope to set the template in West Virginia that then gets foisted onto every other state that adopts sports betting. Or maybe the sports leagues are simply preying upon the states where they think they can pull a fast one.
Either way, no state should give the sports leagues a cut of the legalized betting revenue. And the best defense continues to be that Nevada has had legalized gambling for decades, and that it’s never given the sports leagues one thin dime — even with an NHL team now in Las Vegas and an NFL team coming soon.
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