Ross Stripling said he and his former college teammate started doing the math on the calendar “maybe two starts ago.”
“I knew it would be close,” the Dodgers rookie right-hander said about matching up against his friend, St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha. “Then they had that off day and I texted him because we had just pitched on the same day. I asked him, ‘With the off day, are they going to push you back one?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, they are.’ I was ‘Dang, we’re going to miss it.’ Then he texted me, ‘Things might have changed – dot, dot, dot.