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BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : DODGERS

By BILL PLASCHKE
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Steve Wilson acknowledged it was “funny” facing his former Cub teammates for the first time Tuesday. Wilson induced Jose Vizcaino into a pop out in the eighth inning with two runners on base. “Every player wants to do good against his old team, to show them that they made a mistake by trading him,” Wilson said. “But I wasn’t thinking too much about that. I was just glad to get a chance to pitch against them.” . . . Since blowing his first save opportunity in Montreal May 11 and absorbing the loss, Wilson threw four consecutive scoreless appearances before Wednesday, allowing only one of eight inherited runners to score.

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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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