DODGERS NOTEBOOK: DODGERS STILL HIGH ON JACKSON.Byline: Tony Jackson
Anthony (Antonio) Jackson, best known as Tony Jackson Staff Writer PHOENIX - The decision to bring up left-hander Derek Thompson Derek Thompson (born on April 4, 1948) is a Belfast, Northern Ireland-born British television actor, most notable for playing Charlie Fairhead in the long running series Casualty. from Double-A Jacksonville for Saturday night's spot start at Arizona was as much about the Diamondbacks' mostly left-handed lineup's lack of familiarity with the young lefty as it was about the perception that Triple-A Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. righty right·y Informal n. pl. right·ies 1. A right-handed person. 2. An advocate or member of the political right. adv. Edwin Jackson Edwin Jackson (born September 9, 1983 in Neu-Ulm, Bavaria, West Germany) is a Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the Los Angeles Dodgers and currently plays for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. , the organization's top pitching prospect and the guy who in past seasons would have been an automatic call-up for such a situation, might have lost some of his luster. Jackson, who won't turn 22 until September Until September is a 1984 romantic drama set in France. It stars Karen Allen as an American tourist in Paris who falls in love with a married Frenchman (Thierry Lhermitte). External links , entered Saturday with a 3-4 record and 6.59 ERA. Dodgers general manager Paul DePodesta Paul DePodesta (born December 16, 1972) is baseball front-office assistant for the San Diego Padres. He has also served as general manager of the Los Angeles Dodgers from February 16, 2004 to October 29, 2005. said Jackson is viewed no differently now than he was when he made his major-league debut by beating Arizona's Randy Johnson on Sept. 9, 2003. DePodesta also said Jackson was considered for the call-up that ultimately went to Thompson instead. Dodgers pitching coach Jim Colborn, meanwhile, discounts Jackson's gaudy ERA, chalking it up to simple mathematics. Colborn pointed out that it takes only one or two bad starts to inflate a pitcher's ERA, but it takes several good ones to bring it back down. --Dessens improving: Right-hander Elmer Dessens, who has been on the 15-day disabled list for more than a month with a shoulder lesion, threw batting practice for the first time. He will do so again on Tuesday and then probably begin a minor-league rehabilitation assignment. ``I tried to put a good effort into it just to see how it felt, and I didn't feel any pain at all,'' Dessens said. ``I felt very loose. Sometimes, after I throw in the bullpen, I'm a little bit sore the next day, but I'm fine now.'' --Weaver ready: Colborn said he saw nothing wrong with Jeff Weaver's mechanics after the right-hander was torched for five runs over four innings on Tuesday at San Francisco. Weaver, who starts today against the Diamondbacks, said that his weak shoulder felt stronger after the game but that he would watch video to see if there was a flaw in his delivery. |
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