the most Dustin Pedroia Jersey , the Los Angeles Dodgers are counting on a couple of starting pitchers who have spent key portions of the season on the disabled list.Hyun-Jin Ryu was uneven once more Tuesday as the Dodgers lost yet again to the Cincinnati Reds, and now they’ll turn to All-Star right-hander Ross Stripling — who will make his first start in more than a month — to try to salvage one victory against the last-place Reds.Stripling (8-3) will make one of the Dodgers’ most important starts all season Wednesday at Great American Ball Park against Reds right-hander Anthony DeSclafani (7-4) as the three-game series wraps up.Article continues below ...And if the Dodgers don’t make it to the NL postseason despite the plethora of star-quality talent they possess, and after winning the NL West the previous five seasons, the Reds — of all teams — could be the major culprit.Scott Schebler and Brandon Dixon homered to support Luis Castillo’s effective pitching over 6 1-3 innings, and first baseman Dixon made a heads-up play to turn Alex Verdugo’s grounder into a game-ending double play in the ninth as the Reds beat the Dodgers for the sixth straight times 3-1 Tuesday night.Schebler, Dixon and Jose Peraza came to the Reds from the Dodgers in a 2015 trade, and they combined to go 5-for-11 with two homers. Castillo limited the Dodgers to one run and four hits while striking out nine.NL batting leader Scooter Gennett had two more hits after getting four Monday night and is 16-for-22 (.727) against the Dodgers this season.The Reds came into this series off five losses in seven games and 13 losses in 18 games, yet they’ve won the first two games against a team that took two of three from the first-place Colorado Rockies last weekend. And the Reds swept a four-game series in Dodger Stadium from May 10-13, the first time they’ve done that since 1976.The Dodgers are a combined 2-10 against the Marlins and Reds, two of the NL’s three last-place clubs.“I have no idea why (the Reds are dominating the Dodgers),” Dixon told Fox Sports Ohio. “But getting to play the Dodgers, where I came from, it’s definitely fun. I know some of their guys and getting to hit a home run against them (is fun).”Starting Stripling allows the Dodgers to push back left-hander Clayton Kershaw to the first-game of a four-game series against the contending St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday at Busch Stadium. But manager Dave Roberts expects Stripling to throw only 45 pitches or so, meaning it very well could be a bullpen game.“We’re a team that plays matchups, so if a lefty is up in the rotation but the team we’re facing has trouble against righties (he’ll likely start instead of relieve) Babe Ruth Jersey ,” Stripling said.Stripling was on the disabled list for nearly a month with lower back stiffness before pitching one-third of an inning Friday against Colorado. In his last start, he held the Rockies to one run and four hits over six innings of an 8-5 Dodgers victory on Aug. 9.DeSclafani lasted at least six innings in all five of his August starts, going 3-1 with a 2.62 ERA, but has been limited to 7 2/3 innings during two no-decision starts in September, although the Reds won both games. He is 1-3 with a 3.12 ERA in four career starts against the Dodgers but hasn’t faced them since Aug. 21, 2016.Nobody with the Dodgers is saying if they looked past the Reds to the key Cardinals series, yet they’ve struggled with Cincinnati much like they did in their previous series four months ago.Roberts rested his hottest hitter, Justin Turner, on Tuesday, although Turner grounded into a threat-ending force play with the bases loaded in the seventh as a pinch-hitter. Joc Pederson went 2-for-4 with a homer, but the rest of the Dodgers lineup contributed only three hits.“It was very difficult to not play him, because you know you’re always better with him in the lineup,” Roberts said of Turner, who is hitting .374 with eight homers and 23 RBIs since coming off the disabled list Aug. 2. “But over the last few years, we’ve been able to keep him healthy by managing his workload.”Reds interim manager Jim Riggleman credited Castillo http://www.redsoxproshops.com/authentic-dustin-pedroia-jersey , saying, “That’s a really good lineup they’ve got.“There are a lot of threats in that lineup. But he did a good job. He had a great changeup … and his velocity, here it is Sept. 11 and he hit 98 (mph) a couple of times. It’s nice to see he feels that good.”Ryu (4-3), who was out more than two months with a groin injury, gave up three runs and eight hits over five innings. He is 1-3 with two no-decisions since coming off the disabled list Aug. 15 and has given up 18 hits in 11 innings over his last two starts. DUNEDIN, Fla. (AP) — Charlie Montoyo thought he would be taking a hard line against video games in his first year as Toronto Blue Jays manager.Before he could put his foot down on Fortnite, the players took it upon themselves to govern their gaming.“We’re going to play less, I know that,” Montoyo said. “It’s actually not my rule. It’s our clubhouse rule.”The role of video games at the ballpark was put in the crosshairs Monday when ESPN reported that veteran first baseman Carlos Santana smashed a television in the Philadelphia Phillies‘ clubhouse last September to stop teammates from playing Fortnite. Santana, now with the Cleveland Indians, told ESPN that Phillies players were sneaking into the locker room to play during games.Manager Gabe Kapler acknowledged the Fortnite playing, but he and pitcher Jake Arrieta deny it was happening during games.“Our players say that that wasn’t the case, and I trust our players,” Kapler said.Video games have long been a pastime for big leaguers, but Fortnite pushed their popularity to another level last season. The Houston Astros hooked up gaming consoles to many of the 10 TVs in their spring training clubhouse for raucous Bobby Doerr Jersey , team-wide clashes, and the Boston Red Sox routinely played in hotel rooms after games. Those clubs even celebrated on-field feats with dances popularized by the cartoonish battle royale video game.Fortnite certainly didn’t slow the Red Sox or Astros. They matched up in the AL Championship Series, and Boston won the World Series.Major league managers don’t think Fortnite is a problem, necessarily. In fact, many are into the idea of bonding over slurp juice and boogie bombs. Just so long as players aren’t thinking about Tilted Towers when they should be prepping for the batter’s box.Montoyo, a longtime minor league manager who was most recently bench coach in Tampa Bay, anticipated making changes in Toronto when he took the job this offseason. The Blue Jays had a reputation as a gamer-friendly clubhouse last year while going 73-89.But when Montoyo met with a group of players to establish rules, he found the players were already planning to power down their PlayStations at the ballpark.Their idea: Institute a shutdown time for all clubhouse consoles — something that was fine by Montoyo. The time is yet to be finalized, but most likely, all games will be powered off within an hour of first pitch. As long as players are getting in their work, they’ll be free to play video games at any other time.First-year Texas Rangers manager Chris Woodward established early that he’d be proactive on limiting gaming. He worked with veteran shortstop Elvis Andrus to establish rules on consoles and phones. Players can still do some gaming at the ballpark, but the message is clear.“I think that should be without saying that nobody should be playing a video game during a major league baseball game,” Woodward said.“I challenged them in a way that said, ‘If you are guys are more interested in video games than becoming champions, that’s on you guys Jimmie Foxx Jersey ,'” Woodward added. “It’s not a difficult thing to address when you put it in that light.”He also is asking players to be smart about playing games away from the park.“I’m not going to have rules that say you can’t play at night, but if you are playing until 6 or 7 in the morning, your performance is going to suffer on the baseball diamond, and if I find out about that, we will have a conversation,” Woodward said. “You can curtail that and say: ‘Maybe I will play until 1 or 1:30 in the morning. Then have a legitimate sleeping pattern that is consistent to maximize my performance on the baseball field.'”Cardinals manager Mike Shildt wasn’t concerned about gaming in St. Louis. He is leaving it to his players to make the best decisions.“Our clubhouse wouldn’t let that be a distraction,” Shildt said.Kapler is maintaining a similar stance. He worked with players to create gaming boundaries for the 2019 season but declined to elaborate. He is not eager to ban gaming if players don’t want it that way, in part because he wants players to be responsible for their own pre-game routines.“I don’t think there’s a right way or a wrong way to get ready for the game,” he said. “Manny Ramirez in Boston used to catch hell for sleeping on the training table very close to game time. He was kind of crazy like a fox, right? He was really smart, knew how to rest his body and get ready for the first pitch of the game.”