A runner and writer named Rachel Toor has written a remembrance of a summer she spent in Missoula, Montana where she met Bob Welch in a fork of the Columbia River. Over that summer he and she dated a little and he taught her to pitch.
It’s a nice piece of writing about a guy we oldsters remember pretty well.
Diamondbacks at Dodgers, 7:10PM PT, TV: SPNLA, MLBN, SNLA Spanish
Dan Haren takes his record of 6-4 with a 3.49 ERA to the hill for the Dodgers. He’ll be facing Josh Collmenter, who is 4-3 with a 3.65 ERA.
#Dodgers lineup vs. Dbacks:
Gordon 2B
Ramirez SS
Puig RF
Gonzalez 1B
Kemp LF
Ethier CF
Ellis C
Rojas 3B
Haren P
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 14, 2014
In other injury news, Chad Billingsley tore his flexor tendon on his way toward rehab outings in Albuquerque and will talk to reporters about his options today.