The Dodgers turn to Ross Stripling on Friday night against the Giants, their second starting pitching major league debut in three games.
Stripling, 26, joins Kenta Maeda, the 28-year-old who made his spectacular debut on Wednesday in San Diego, in a select group of Dodgers starting pitcher debuts at age 26 or older. That group of 18 such pitchers in the last 100 years was profiled on Wednesday by Jon Weisman at Dodger Insider.
Thrust into the Dodgers-Giants rivalry, Stripling joins an even rarer fraternity of Dodgers starting pitchers to make their major league debut on the road against the Giants — with Ed Appleton (1915), Johnny Podres (1953) and Hideo Nomo (1995) the only other members since 1913.