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Dustin Might has his finest begin of season as Dodgers sweep White Sox

By Editorial Board Published July 7, 2025 6 Min Read
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Dustin Might has his finest begin of season as Dodgers sweep White Sox

The Dodgers have spent more cash on pitching, particularly beginning pitching, than any group within the majors this season, solely to lose a dozen of these arms to the injured listing. That’s compelled supervisor Dave Roberts to carry the baseball equal of open auditions, giving begins to 16 folks and utilizing a major-league-leading 34 pitchers total.

It’s gotten so dangerous, utility infielders Miguel Rojas and Kiké Hernández have mixed to make extra appearances on the mound than three pitchers who opened the season within the rotation.

And the Dodgers are simply midway by way of the season.

That’s created a possibility for Dustin Might, and he’s stepped as much as benefit from it. After lacking a lot of the final two seasons to a sequence of accidents, Might has turn out to be a workhorse of the Dodgers employees, notching profession highs for begins (16) and innings pitching (89 2/3) whereas offering stability for a employees that desperately wants it.

And his newest outing Thursday could have been his finest, with the right-hander pitching into the eighth inning for the primary time in a 6-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. He scattered 4 hits and struck out 9, one off his profession excessive, because the Dodgers received their fourth recreation in a row and their ninth in 10 video games.

“I just feel like I’m doing my job,” mentioned Might, who took an ideal recreation into the sixth inning. “I’m just trying to live in a three-foot world. I’ve had a lot of ups and downs in my career so far. I don’t try to look too far ahead.”

Or behind. As a result of that is the time of the 12 months when Might usually struggles, mentioned catcher Dalton Dashing.

“What makes him going so deep into a game so special, it’s July. And over the years, it’s kind of been a grind through this time of the year for him,” Dashing mentioned. “To see that everything’s still playing at the level that it’s playing is very promising.”

Might retired the primary 16 batters so as and took a shutout into the eighth inning, solely to see Chicago’s Brooks Baldwin finish each streaks, singling sharply to proper to interrupt up the no-hitter within the sixth and hitting a two-run homer to interrupt up the shutout within the eighth.

By then the Dodgers had all of the runs they wanted, with Freddie Freeman driving in three with a pair of doubles and Michael Conforto and Mookie Betts driving in three extra with a pair of homers. For Freeman, it was his first three-RBI recreation in practically two months whereas Betts’ solo homer within the seventh was his second since Might 19.

Teoscar Hernandez will get a hug from former Dodger Miguel Vargas after getting his 1,000th profession hit.

(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Instances)

Afterward, Freeman wished to speak concerning the elevate Might has given the group.

“He has electric stuff,” he mentioned. “When you combine electric stuff with that command that he had tonight, that’s what he can do. He was 97 to 99, back-door sliders, cutters in breaking bats. Just electric.”

Typically the electrical energy is shut off, although, as a result of staying constant has been the most important problem for Might (5-5). He’s received consecutive begins simply as soon as and his ERA has climbed every month. However crucially he’s continued to take the ball each fifth day, which is why Might and Yoshinobu Yamamoto are the one Dodger pitchers who’ve began greater than 9 occasions or pitched at the least 57 innings.

“My confidence is high,” Might mentioned. “I haven’t missed a start, knock on wood. I’ve been able to go out and give them a chance to win for a lot of my outings, which is a good thing. I’m just going to try and build off this.”

In Might’s earlier begin, he was performed after 4 innings, giving up 4 runs, strolling three and needing 84 pitches to get 12 outs. So Roberts challenged him to deal with his command, management his pitch rely and get deeper into the sport. It labored Thursday with Might needing simply 86 pitches to get into the eighth.

“He’s figuring it out,” Roberts mentioned. “He’s probably been our most dependable guy. Taking some workload off the [bull]pen, kind of stabilizing the rotation has been fantastic. I feel good every time he takes the mound.

“The dependability, the consistency of innings that he’s giving us. Every time he goes out there, we have a chance to win.”

Roberts could not must proceed to trip Might so laborious, nevertheless, as a result of the pitching cavalry could quickly be arriving. Blake Snell, a two-time Cy Younger Award winner who hasn’t pitched since April is throwing to hitters once more and Tyler Glasnow, who went on the injured listing Might 31, threw 4 1/3 innings in his third minor league rehab begin Thursday.

They will’t come again too quickly. The Dodgers are undecided on a starter for Sunday.

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