Dad has Mike Bolsinger’s back regarding Dodgers

What father does not stand up for his son?

Mike Bolsinger’s father did, after the Dodgers sent his son to the minor leagues.

“Big mistake!!!!!” his father wrote on Twitter. His father also wrote: “Dodgers are dead to me!”

Who could not sympathize with dear old dad? After season-ending injuries to Brandon McCarthy and Hyun-Jin Ryu, Bolsinger had more than stabilized the Dodgers starting rotation.

Bolsinger was 5-3 with a 2.83 earned-run average, which ranks 13th among the 71 National League pitchers to work at least 80 innings this season, immediately ahead of John Lackey, Max Scherzer, Carlos Martinez and Madison Bumgarner.

However, when the Dodgers acquired Mat Latos and Alex Wood at the July trade deadline, Bolsinger was the odd-man out, sent to triple A as a right-handed insurance policy.

“I definitely thought I did everything I could,” Bolsinger said. “It’s baseball. Stuff happens.

“The first couple of days down there, I probably had an attitude I probably shouldn’t have had. You get over it, get back on track and figure out what you need to do.”

The Dodgers recalled Bolsinger when rosters expanded this week. He will make a spot start Friday at San Diego.

Bolsinger smiled and declined to discuss his father’s tweets. He said he would be done with Twitter were it not such an easy way to keep up with baseball news.

“I just got rid of Facebook,” said the 27-year-old Bolsinger. “Twitter will be the next thing I get rid of. I’m getting too old for it.”

Hamstrung

Chase Utley continues to work out at third base before games, an indication the Dodgers continue to believe that Howie Kendrick will return from the disabled list and reclaim the second base job at some point this month.

Kendrick has not played since Aug. 9. The Dodgers had hoped he would be playing minor league rehabilitation games by now, but Manager Don Mattingly said Kendrick still cannot run at full speed. Kendrick would appear to need at least another week of rehabilitation.

Nonetheless, Mattingly said Kendrick would start at second base upon his return, with Utley used to spell Kendrick and third baseman Justin Turner.

Playoff tickets

The Dodgers have priced tickets for potential postseason games at $28 to $201 for a division series, $64 to $221 for the Championship Series and $166 to $461 for the World Series.

David Siegel, the Dodgers’ vice president of ticket sales, said he could not say how many seats might be available to the general public. The Dodgers have sold 35,000 season seats, and Siegel said those customers would be offered the chance to buy additional tickets for the first two rounds of the playoffs. Major League Baseball also requires playoff teams to set aside thousands of seats for league officials, corporate sponsors and the media.

The Dodgers have sold as many as 54,646 tickets to playoff games since removing seats in the 2012-13 stadium renovations.

Fans without season seats can register for the chance to buy playoff tickets at dodgers.com/tickets.

Short hops

Enrique Hernandez got a lot of television time for wearing a banana costume on his head in the dugout during the Dodgers’ game-winning rally Monday. “It’s the big leagues. It’s L.A.,” Hernandez said. “Any time you do something stupid like that, you’ll get on.” … Corey Seager has 10 extra-base hits and 14 runs batted in over his last 12 games at triple-A Oklahoma City. Seager is expected to join the Dodgers this month, probably after Oklahoma City’s season ends. … The Dodgers recalled outfielder Scott Schebler, increasing their active roster to 31 players.