A month Dodgers' DeWitt will never forget
Published 4/13/2008 at L.A. Times - Baseball News
Rookie has sparkled as Dodgers' emergency starter at third base and it hasn't gone unnoticed, by the team or in his hometown in Missouri.
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It has been a fairy-tale spring for Dodgers rookie Blake DeWitt , who played his way into the opening-day lineup, singled off a three-time All-Star in his first big league at-bat and wound up getting the month named in his honor back home in Sikeston, Mo.
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