Ross Stripling gets the start for the Dodgers against the Red Sox on Saturday afternoon, his ninth major league start of the season and his first since May 19 in Anaheim.
Stripling’s start will also be the 42nd by a rookie this season for the Dodgers, with Kenta Maeda leading the 2016 first-year brigade with 22 starts, Julio Urias adding nine starts, and Brock Stewart two.
The 42 starts are the fourth-most by Dodgers rookies since the team moved west in 1958. Only the 1995 Dodgers, with 56 starts (Hideo Nomo 28, Ismael Valdes 27, and one by Chan Ho Park), the 2008 club, with 52 starts (31 by Hiroki Kuroda, 21 by Clayton Kershaw), and the 2013 Dodgers, with 46 starts (30 by Hyun-jin Ryu, 10 by Stephen Fife, six by Matt Magill), had more starts from rookies.