Dodgers catcher Will Smith runs to the dugout during a spring training game on March 25.
(Ashley Landis / Associated Press)
Clayton Kershaw is set to throw to a catcher other than Austin Barnes for the first time this season Friday night.
Will Smith is scheduled to catch for Kershaw as the Dodgers open a six-game homestand against the Texas Rangers.
Barnes has been dealing with an ankle injury and started behind the plate Thursday in Pittsburgh.
Manager Dave Roberts said he wanted to give Barnes consecutive days off from starting as he continues to heal.
Roberts also said Smith catching Kershaw is “beneficial for everybody” moving forward because the familiarity can only help over the course of a 162-game season.
“The way that it’s played out right now,” Roberts said, “I definitely don’t think it’s a bad thing to have Will catch him.”
Kershaw is coming off back-to-backs losses. He allowed five earned runs in six innings in each of those starts.
“There’s really nothing in the sequence or the delivery,” Roberts said. “It’s more of just being victim of that big inning. With Clayton, when he gets two outs, usually you put an end to the inning. That just hasn’t happened.”
San Francisco had a three-run first against Kershaw on May 30. Atlanta scored five runs in the third against him Saturday. All five of the Braves’ runs came after two outs.
“If you look at the body of work over the collection of innings, it’s been really good,” Roberts said. “There have been a lot of zeroes. But, again, victim of that one big inning.”
Also Friday, Roberts called it “reasonable” that shortstop Corey Seager could begin a rehabilitation assignment in the next two weeks. Seager has been out since a pitch broke the fifth metacarpal of his right hand May 15.
Roberts said he expects Seager to need at least seven games before being ready to rejoin the Dodgers.
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