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LOS ANGELES -- Knuckleballer Steven Wright dazzled in a three-hitter, Mookie Betts had one of Bostons three homers and the Red Sox cruised to a 9-0 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Friday night with David Ortiz out of the lineup in an NL park.Wright (13-5) had nine strikeouts in his third complete game this season. He retired 15 in a row during one stretch and won his fifth straight decision.Sandy Leon hit a two-run homer in the fourth and had four RBI. The switch-hitting Leon has had an outstanding summer, batting .467 in June and .355 in July.Travis Shaw also homered, connecting for the 14th time this season.Dodgers starter Scott Kazmir (9-5) has lost two straight since a 13-start unbeaten streak. He allowed four runs on five hits in 5 1/3 innings.Betts hit a solo home run in the third inning, his 23rd of the year, and Shaw, who replaced Dustin Pedroia in the lineup after Pedroia left the game with a left shin bruise, hit a solo homer in the eighth to give Boston a 5-0 lead.Ortiz wasnt in the lineup, but he was on the field as the Dodgers honored him in a pregame ceremony. Legendary broadcaster Vin Scully narrated a video tribute while Ortiz stood with former teammates Nomar Garciaparra, Adrian Gonzalez and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts.The Dodgers presented Ortiz with a $10,000 check to his foundation, The David Ortiz Childrens Fund. Gonzalez and his wife, Betsy, matched the donation.Ortiz is expected back in the lineup Saturday. Hell play first base.I think that the risk and the reward is high, manager John Farrell said. David was on the field last year in interleague play. We had held off for obvious reasons, but with a right-hander in there (Saturday) sandwiched by two left-handers, (we) felt like it was a good day to get him on the field.Pedroia was hit by Kazmirs pitch in the shin in the third inning and is day-to-day.WELCOME TO TOWNNewly acquired outfielder Josh Reddick got his first taste of driving in Los Angeles traffic going to the stadium from Glendale, a Los Angeles suburb.For me it took four entrances and three wrong turns to get here, but I made it, Reddick said. Ill learn eventually.TRAINERS ROOMRed Sox: Ryan Hanigan was forced to leave Thursday nights game against the Mariners after taking a pitch off his left ankle. For Friday night, he was available only in the case of an emergency. Boston claimed Bryan Holaday off waivers from the Texas Rangers to solidify its catching corps.Dodgers: Ace Clayton Kershaw (back) and outfielder Trayce Thompson (lower back) will both be out until at least September. ... 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The selectors have had no choice but to pull two seam bowlers out of the ongoing A team tour of England, to replace the absent frontliners in the national squad. With Suranga Lakmal also in doubt for the first Test due to a hamstring complaint, either Asitha Fernando or Vishwa Fernando may make their Test debut.The coaches in the back end have to do a lot of work to produce players, and also try to get them fit, Mathews said. We need more players coming through the ranks, so the coaches have a bigger job to play for the next one-and-a-half years. If the fast bowlers are injured, we need fast bowlers. At the international level, I cant go as a captain and say we dont have bowlers. If we dont have them, we need to know how to produce them.Prasad will now miss his third full Test series in a row, after having also withdrawn from the New Zealand and England tours before the first Test. Chameera left the England tour after the first Test, and legspinner Jeffrey Vandersay, who was being prepared for Test entry in this series, has also now been ruled out thanks to a finger injury.It has been a very frustrating few months, Mathews said. Not only one bowler, weve lost so many. Vandersay is one of our key bowlers in the spin department. Its very frustrating to see them going down. The workload has been very high when they pplay all three formats.dddddddddddd When they play continuously, the body eventually gets tired. Its very hard to divide those players when it comes to Tests, one-dayers and Twenty20s. We havent got a wide range of choices to make and pick from. The bowlers who are fit - theyve got no choice but to play all three formats.Actually, as back-up staff, we need to try and look for more new players and get them ready and fit. We cant always keep saying, the bowlers are injured, we havent got that many bowlers. We need to try and find them if we dont have them.Of the bowlers that do remain however, spinners Rangana Herath and Dilruwan Perera are expected to feature through the series. Herath recently surpassed 300 Test scalps, and Perera has largely proved himself an able second spinner in Asian conditions.I think the spinners will have a lot of workload on this pitch, Mathews said. If its spinning or seaming, weve got a couple of key bowlers in Rangana Herath or Dilruwan if it spins. Theyve got enough experience. We have set up a few plans and hopefully we can execute them.Sri Lankas batting appears more settled than the attack, with Mathews confirming that Kusal Mendis and Dinesh Chandimal will bat at nos. 3 and 4, as they had through much of the tour of England. Openers Dimuth Karunaratne and Kaushal Silva have also now played more than 25 Tests each, and are currently unchallenged at the top of the order.Im actually happy with the current opening pair, he said. Especially in England - in tough conditions - I thought they put up some good efforts. All the batsmen lacked getting those big hundreds. If we can be more consistent and convert those 30s, 40s and 50s into 100s and 150s, that would be ideal. Our opening combination is going to be the key part in our batting unit. If they can get the shine off the ball and try and send the bowlers into their second and third spells, that would be ideal. ' ' '