Sandy Koufax wins two games in the 1963 World Series; Dodgers pitchers have 1.00 ERA.
It is the 40th anniversary of the only perfect game by a Dodgers pitcher in franchise history.
Sandy Koufax, the great Dodgers pitcher, smiled, too.
Piazza received a $3,000 fine for grabbing Mota by the throat one inning after the Dodgers pitcher hit him with a delivery in a spring training game last year.
Here's Steve Howe, the former Dodgers pitcher, whose cocaine habit got him suspended from major league baseball.
"L.A. is our place," said Odalis Perez, a Dodgers pitcher.
Kershaw became the first Dodgers pitcher to win 20 games since Ramon Martinez(notes) went 20-6 in 1990.
"Larry was a remarkable player," Joe Black, the Dodgers pitcher and a fellow Negro Leaguer, told me.
Guillermo Mota, the Dodgers pitcher who hit Piazza on March 12 with a pitch for the second consecutive spring, was also suspended for four games.
Seanez (1-3) took 10 minutes to warm up as the seventh Dodgers pitcher, then Hayes hit his 10th home run over the center-field wall.