Manny Ramirez scratched from first spring start

March 12, 2009 12:24 PM PT

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Manny Ramirez was removed from his first scheduled start of Dodgers’ spring training in Phoenix because of a tight left hamstring.

He was scheduled to be the designated hitter in a game against South Korea and was replaced by Mark Loretta.

-- Mike James

Sports Now

Mike James

Mike James is a former Sports editor of the Los Angeles Times. A native of suburban Washington, D.C., James came to The Times from the Hartford Courant in 1985, took a hiatus from the print world in 2000 to work as coordinating producer at FoxSports.com and managing editor of the nightly news report on Fox Sports Net. He returned to The Times in 2002 and, after three years as deputy Sports editor, became Sports editor in 2009.

Manny Ramirez scratched from first spring start

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