Lil’ Ron Washington will be part of pregame at World Series

By Oct 31, 2010, 3:35 PM EDT
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This picture of a second grader dressed as Rangers manager Ron Washington got a lot of play on the worldwide web this past week.

It also got the Rangers’ attention and they have invited the young man, seven-year-old Liam Roybal, to exclaim “Play Ball!” before Sunday’s World Series Game 3 in Texas.

Leigh Munsil of The Dallas Morning News caught up with Roybal this weekend.  He first wore the costume at a church festival in the Dallas area and then at a Career Day.  His parents eventually posted pictures of the getup on Facebook, and it spread from there.

“He is absolutely excited, he’s kind of bouncing off the walls right now,” mother Ami Roybal said.  “We all sat around the table and laughed about it. We said, ‘You might really look like Ron Washington when you shave your head.'”

And he most definitely does.  Lineups and pregame notes should be coming out shortly for Game 4.

Dodgers place pitcher Noah Syndergaard on injured list with no timetable for return

Associated PressJun 8, 2023, 9:19 PM EDT
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CINCINNATI — The Los Angeles Dodgers placed pitcher Noah Syndergaard on the 15-day injured list Thursday with a blister on the index finger of his right throwing hand.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said the timetable for Syndergaard’s return is unknown despite the 15-day designation.

“The physical, the mental, the emotional part, as he’s talked about, has taken a toll on him,” Roberts said. “So, the ability to get him away from this. He left today to go back to Los Angeles to kind of get back to normalcy.”

Syndergaard allowed six runs and seven hits in three innings against the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday night, raising his ERA to 7.16.

Syndergaard (1-4) has surrendered at least five runs in three straight starts.

Syndergaard has been trying to return to the player he was before Tommy John surgery sidelined him for the better part of the 2020 and 2021 seasons.

Roberts said Syndergaard will need at least “a few weeks” to both heal and get away from baseball and “reset.”

“I think searching and not being comfortable with where he was at in the moment is certainly evident in performance,” Roberts said. “So hopefully this time away will provide more clarity on who he is right now as a pitcher.

“Trying to perform when you’re searching at this level is extremely difficult. I applaud him from not running from it, but it’s still very difficult. Hopefully it can be a tale of two stories, two halves when he does come back.”