PHILADELPHIA -- Carl Crawford will see increased playing time, Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said, beginning with his start in left field on Thursday.
Crawford opened the season as the primary left fielder in a platoon with Scott Van Slyke. But Crawford sustained a badly pulled right oblique muscle at the end of April and returned nearly three months later to be told he had lost some playing time to Andre Ethier.
On Thursday for the series finale against the Phils, Mattingly moved Ethier to right field and Yasiel Puig to the bench as Crawford started in left.