APRuby Dee on stage with Sidney Poitier on March 26, 1959 during the Broadway run of “A Raisin in the Sun”

Dodgers at Phillies, 4:05 p.m.

  • Dee Gordon, SS
  • Casey Blake, 3B
  • Andre Ethier, LF
  • Matt Kemp, CF
  • Juan Uribe, 2B
  • James Loney, 1B
  • Dioner Navarro, C
  • Jerry Sands, LF
  • Rubby De La Rosa, P

In honor of the simultaneous first major-league starts of Rubby De La Rosa and Dee Gordon, here’s a portion of “A Raisin in the Sun” with Ruby Dee.

Eric Stephen of True Blue L.A. has a great chart of how pitchers have done making their first major-league starts with the Dodgers in the past 10 years.

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Here are not one but two updates on 2011 No. 1 draft choice Chris Reed from Tony Jackson of ESPNLosAngeles.com.