As the Dodgers took a no-hitter into the seventh inning of Thursday’s Freeway Series exhibition, Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser joked in the television booth about whether they could jinx a spring training no-hitter. When the season starts Monday — the first for Davis, after 67 for Vin Scully — this might not be a joking matter for the new voice of the Dodgers. If a certain three-time National League Cy Young Award winner is three outs from a no-hitter, there is one sentence Davis says he will not use. “I’m not going to tell you, ‘Here we go to the ninth inning, and Clayton Kershaw is throwing a no-hitter,’ ” he said. But, as kind of a nod to the people that do care and are bugged by hearing ‘no-hitter,’ I just try to be tactful.

Source: Los Angeles Times April 01, 2017 03:44 UTC