LOS ANGELES >> Andrew Toles started the season in left field at Dodger Stadium instead of in Oklahoma City. He can probably thank Andre Ethier’s herniated disc for that.
Toles also started the season batting leadoff for the Dodgers – and he can probably thank Yasiel Puig for that.
The Dodgers’ main offseason acquisition, Logan Forsythe spent most of the Cactus League schedule batting leadoff. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts put Toles in the top spot of his first lineup this season, allowing him to move Forsythe to fifth.
“We like Andrew in the batter’s box against right-handed pitchers,” Roberts said of Toles, who stepped into the left-handed half of a left-field platoon when Ethier was sidelined by a back injury this spring.