Hill hurt so Ryu will start opening day for Dodgers
by Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Mar 23, 2019
4 minutes
PHOENIX - Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts named Hyun-Jin Ryu the team's opening-day starter Friday, ending a monthlong mystery lengthened by injuries to the club's first three choices for the nod.
The third injury was revealed Friday: Rich Hill has a strained medial collateral ligament in his left knee and will begin the season on the injured list. He'll join Clayton Kershaw, who battled shoulder inflammation this spring. Walker Buehler won't begin the season on the injured list, but he won't pitch until the season's fourth or fifth game after an undisclosed ailment early in camp braked his spring progression.
The injuries also mean Julio Urias and
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