Dodgers-Angels: A Showdown Between the Brothers Weaver
Saturday will mark just the 21st time in Major League history that brothers will face-off against each other as opposing starting pitchers.
32-year-old Jeff Weaver will start for Los Angeles in place of Eric Milton, who isn’t eligible to come off the DL until Sunday. Jeff’s Dodgers will face his little brother Jered and their cross-town counterparts, the Los Angeles Angels.
The Dodgers’ organization has actually seen brothers face each other twice before.
First, Jess Barnes, pitching for Brooklyn in 1912, faced brother Virgil, pitching for the Giants. More recently, Dodger Ramon Martinez squared off against brother Pedro, back when he was ...
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