Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig activated from DL, starts vs. Padres

Dodgers RF Yasiel Puig activated from DL, starts vs. Padres, Yasiel Puig smiled Saturday night if told he looked as if he absent weight.

"Lipo," he joked.

Puig's acknowledgment to the Dodgers in a 2-1 achievement over the San Diego Padres was something of a accessory triumph.

In his aboriginal bold aback from the disabled list, Puig played nine innings in appropriate acreage and recorded the final out. He was one for three with a single.

"I acquainted absolutely good," Puig said in Spanish.

The Dodgers will accept to yield Puig at his word.

When Puig ran, he did so at what was acutely beneath than abounding speed.

"There were no moments that alleged for me to run at 100%," Puig explained, emphasizing his point by reciting the outcomes of his three at-bats.

"Playing with added intelligence," he added.

Manager Don Mattingly aswell noticed that Puig ran with restraint, but downplayed his concern.

"I'm not aggravating to assay that, honestly," Mattingly said. "Just aggravating to win a bold tonight. But it is something that everybody looks at."

With Scott Van Slyke alone with a bloated wrist, the Dodgers could be affected to about-face to Puig to annular out their 25-man agenda for their National League analysis alternation adjoin the New York Mets.

Puig said he would be accessible to a assets role.

"Trying to exhausted the Mets, traveling on to exhausted the added teams we'll encounter, acceptable the World Series, that’s what a lot of important, not whether I play or not," Puig said. 
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