2013 Los Angeles Dodgers season
The 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers season was the 124th for the franchise in Major League Baseball, and their 56th season in Los Angeles. The Dodgers dealt with a series of injuries to key players during the first half of the season and on June 21 were 31–42, 9+1⁄2 games back in last place in the NL West. Beginning with a 6–1 win over the San Diego Padres on June 22, the return of the injured players, and the emergence of rookie Yasiel Puig, they went 46–10 through August 23 as the rest of the division collapsed. On September 19, they clinched the National League West title. This was the earliest the Dodgers had ever clinched a title and the largest deficit they had ever overcome to win the division. They opened the playoffs by defeating the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS and advanced to the NLCS. In the NLCS, they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in six games.
Mark McGwire became the Dodgers new hitting coach for 2013.
Korean pitcher Hyun-jin Ryu was signed by the Dodgers to a 6-year $36 million contract
The Dodgers signed Zack Greinke to a 6-year $147 million contract, the richest ever for a right-handed starter to that point
Clayton Kershaw pitched a complete game shutout on Opening Day against the Giants
Yasiel Puig Valdés is a Cuban-born American professional baseball right fielder for El Águila de Veracruz of the Mexican League.
Puig with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2016
Puig with then teammate Juan Uribe
Puig in the Dodger Stadium outfield for the 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers
Puig's follow through for the 2014 Los Angeles Dodgers
