Here he stands, in the light of day (well, night).
By Jon Weisman
Cole Hamels could have been trouble for a Dodger team feeling a bit frozen at the plate. But Zack Greinke brought the heat against the Phillies.
Greinke struck out 11 batters in seven innings, giving him 40 in 29 2/3 innings this season and a whopping 12.3 strikeouts per nine innings, in the Dodgers’ 5-2 victory over Philadelphia.
Last year’s Silver Slugger winner also contributed a walk and a double, the latter leading to the third run the Dodgers needed to end their two-game losing streak.
But Greinke didn’t have to go it alone. Dodger outfielders Yasiel Puig and Matt Kemp also got in on the act. Puig drove home the Dodgers’ second and third runs with a two-out single in the fifth and a two-out triple in the eighth. Kemp had two doubles to raise his slugging percentage to .473.
Meanwhile, Hanley Ramirez shushed the skeptics about his health with a sixth-inning double and an eighth-inning home run, and Drew Butera added his second two-hit game of 2014. Twelve hits in all for the boys in white and blue.
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