LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers will make a rotation shuffle Sunday Dave Winfield Jersey , swapping left-handers for the series finale against the San Diego Padres at Dodger Stadium.With a 1 p.m. local start, what they won’t have to worry about is a power failure after Dodger Stadium went dark Saturday for the second time in almost four weeks in the middle of a game.Instead of lefty Alex Wood, the Dodgers will now have lefty Hyun-Jin Ryu take aim at the Padres with the chance at a series sweep on the line. Wood will now be pushed back to Wednesday, which is the finale of a brief two-game interleague series at Texas.Article continues below ...No reason was given for the change, although Wood has been struggling with nagging injuries this season that was originally diagnosed as leg cramps in a couple of early starts. He eventually went on the disabled list earlier this month for left adductor tendonitis.The Padres will stick to their original plan as left-hander Robbie Erlin will make his seventh start, including his fifth this month. Erlin has spent most of the season in the bullpen but in four previous August starts, he has put together a 3.43 ERA, earning two victories in the process.With the Padres looking to make some rotation changes in the coming weeks, every outing is sure to be picked apart. Lefty Eric Lauer (forearm strain) could be back as early as next week. Lis Perdomo (strained right shoulder) could be back not long after that.“We’re going to continue to talk through our rotation plan (we had) coming out of the break,” Padres manager Andy Green said. “Nothing is finalized at this point and time. (Lauer) is a candidate to be reinserted at some point in time next week.”Ryu knows all about an up-in-the-air status, having spent 3 1/2 months on the disabled list with a left groin strain. He has made two starts since returning, a tidy six-inning start Aug. 15 when he held the San Francisco Giants scoreless over six innings, and a start Tuesday against the St. Louis Cardinals when he gave up three runs on four hits over four innings.Despite having starter Kenta Maeda working out of the bullpen, the Dodgers will use just four pitchers this time through the rotation: Ryu, Walker Buehler, Rich Hill and Clayton Kershaw.The Dodgers moved 2 1/2 games behind the co-division leaders Arizona and Colorado and they do not sound like a club that will take a game on Sunday against the last-place and struggling Padres for granted.“Everything needs to be tightened up as we move toward September,” Hill said Rollie Fingers Jersey , according to the Los Angeles Times. “As we know, things get amplified. And you want to be able to be as close to perfection as we can. … We’ll continue playing like there’s no tomorrow.”The future does look bright for a Padres organization loaded with quality prospects. The present, though, is a bit unsightly with 10 defeats in their last 12 games, including a bad-luck loss that happened Saturday on the first pitch after the power was restored in L.A.The Dodgers entered the current series 8-12 in August, but are now on the verge of their first three-game series sweep since July 2-4 at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Opening Day is ten days away. It’s Trey Mancini’s birthday! He was not one of the roster cuts on Sunday."Hello, friends.There are now ten days to go until the next Orioles game that counts. It’ll be here before we know it, for better or worse. Between now and then, there’s still nine spring training games left to be played, including today at 1:05 when they travel to play the Tigers. The game will be streamed online through Orioles.com or the MLB At Bat app.The Orioles are now 11-11-2 in their Grapefruit League games after losing yesterday to the Yankees, 4-3. Mike Wright was bad and on the whole, so were the regular batters, nearly all of whom might be in the Opening Day lineup.A round of cuts before yesterday’s game made the Orioles Opening Day roster picture look a bit more clear. Six players were optioned to Triple-A Norfolk: outfielders Austin Hays and Anthony Santander, infielder Stevie Wilkerson, and pitchers Cody Carroll, Branden Kline, and Yefry Ramirez. Two more who were invited to big league camp on minor league contracts were reassigned: Infielder Christopher Bostick and pitcher Gabriel Ynoa.Hays is the most surprising of the bunch Randy Jones Jersey , although maybe we shouldn’t have been so surprised. The Orioles may have a young outfield of the future on the way, but it’s not the outfield of the present quite yet. MASN’s Roch Kubatko relayed GM Mike Elias’s explanation about why Hays is starting the season out in the minors:Hays played a half-season at Double-A Bowie before his promotion to MLB in 2017, and another half-season there around his various injuries last year. That he got called up to Baltimore at the end of that 2017 season was a misguided act of desperation by that year’s Orioles, not necessarily the best thing that should have been done for his development as a player.“Give Hays a couple of months to settle in at Triple-A before rushing him back to MLB” is a reasonable enough explanation, even if it’s not an exciting one to fans who were hoping to see an interesting team out of the gate this year. They may even be looking to give Hays some reps in center field to figure out if he can be an answer there.The Orioles are going to be bad. The best we can hope for is that June is more interesting than April and August is more interesting than June as struggling veterans and overmatched young-ish players are shuffled off the roster, capable veterans are traded, and young players either force their way to MLB or are given chances to replace the departed. If yesterday’s lineup is any indication, the season will begin with Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo both healthy enough to play, meaning Trey Mancini will be in left field. That’s... just not exciting. At all.Mike Mussina was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame 55 days ago. The Orioles have not yet announced any plans to retire his jersey number or add his statue to Camden Yards.Around the blogO’sphereFor Orioles, keeping top prospects like Austin Hays in minors is clearest sign yet that development trumps winning (Baltimore Sun)Mike Elias told us at FanFest that he didn’t want to place undue emphasis on something that’s not strategically relevant. With yesterday’s cuts, we found out some of what that means.Wright: “Got to keep the ball in the park” (School of Roch)He did not keep the ball in the park.Orioles using analytics, sign of culture change (Orioles.com)There have been four new full-time analytics staffers added to the front office since the Elias regime took over.Chris Davis discusses MLB’s new rules (Baltimore Baseball)Davis is the Orioles player representative, so he’s got a bigger perspective on some of the new changes.Spring reserves keeping standards high in difficult late-game assignments (Baltimore Sun)For anyone out there who really needs to know what Jace Peterson thinks about this spring training.Notes on Chance Sisco, Alex Cobb from the stretch, and more (Steve Melewski)If you missed it over the weekend, Alex Cobb is tinkering with pitching from the stretch all of the time. Can’t hurt to try new things in spring training.Birthdays and anniversariesOne current Oriole has a birthday today. Happy 27th birthday to Trey Mancini. There also a few former Orioles who were born on this day: 2010-11 backup catcher Craig Tatum, 1997 outfielder Geronimo Berroa http://www.padresfanproshop.com/authentic-brad-hand-jersey , 1977 one-gamer Randy Miller, and the late Dick Littlefield, who pitched in three games for the 1954 Orioles.Is today your birthday? Happy birthday to you! Your birthday buddies for today include: 22nd/24th president Grover Cleveland (1837), diesel engine inventor Rudolf Diesel (1858), actor Peter Graves (1926), novelist John Updike (1932), Ben and Jerry’s Ben Cohen (1951), actress Vanessa Williams (1963), gold medal speed skater Bonnie Blair (1964), rapper/actress Queen Latifah (1970), music show man Adam Levine (1979), and musician Lykke Li (1986).On this day in history...In 1314, the 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, Jacques de Molay, was burned at the stake in France. The king of France of that time, Philip IV, was in debt to the Knights Wil Myers Jersey , and arranged for a variety of torture-induced confessions as a pretext to seize their wealth and avoid the debt.In 1892, Canada’s former Governor General, Lord Stanley, made a pledge to donate a silver challenge cup to be given as an award to the best hockey team in Canada.In 1915, during World War I, a British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles was repulsed by the Ottoman Empire, at a cost of three battleships. After this failure, the powers that be decided on an invasion at Gallipoli.In 1968, Congress repealed the “gold standard” - the requirement that there be gold reserves to back American currency.In 1990, over the course of 81 minutes, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and stole 13 pieces of art worth over $500 million, including multiple pieces of art by Rembrandt and Degas. This is recognized as the biggest value theft of private property in history. The thieves were never caught and none of the art has been found.**And that’s the way it is in Birdland on March 18 - or at least, until something happens later down in Florida. Have a safe Monday.