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BASEBALL : DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Scioscia Catches His 1,200th Game

By BILL PLASCHKE
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Mike Scioscia said he still does not consider himself among the great Dodger catchers even though he caught his 1,200 game for the Dodgers Monday, a Los Angeles record.

The all-time franchise record of 1,218 games, held by John Roseboro, should belong to Scioscia within a month.

“It’s an honor that my name has been in the lineup card so many times, but I am not presumptuous enough to consider myself among the greats like Roseboro, Roy Campanella and Steve Yeager,” Scioscia said. “This is a milestone, and I’m lucky to have been around long enough to reach it, but I don’t consider it really great.”

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Mike Sharperson, who has been nursing a sore left leg since last week, was placed on 15-day disabled list, retroactive to May 8. The Dodgers recalled Greg Smith from Albuquerque. Smith is hitting .238.

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Bill Plaschke

Bill Plaschke, an L.A. Times sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame. He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards. He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.” Plaschke is also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.” He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center. Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.

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