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LOS ANGELES -- Six years after representing the Colorado Rockies in the All-Star Futures game, left-hander Christian Friedrich continues his campaign to rebuild his career when his San Diego Padres face the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday at Dodger Stadium. Thurl Bailey Jersey .Friedrichs opponent, right-hander Kenta Maeda, seeks to resurrect his own season after a brilliant April following a stellar career in Japan.Friedrich -- who turned 29 on Friday -- threw only three pitches and retired the only batter he faced for the United States in a 9-1 victory over the World at Angel Stadium. Merely making that team, however, reflected Friedrichs potential as a major leaguer.However, he never gained a foothold with the Rockies. In 2012, Friedrich went 5-8 as a rookie starter before a stress fracture in his lower back ended his season and limited him to just four appearances in 2013. The Rockies tried making Friedrich a reliever but he went 0-8 the past two years.The Los Angeles Angels claimed Friedrich on waivers in February but sent him back to the Rockies, who released him. The Padres signed the left-hander as a free agent in March. Since entering the rotation May 13, Friedrich started 3-1 but has lost three of his past four decisions.Nevertheless, Friedrich showed flashes of his potential June 23, when he used his slider to retire the first nine batters in a start against the Baltimore Orioles before suffering a 12-6 loss.I think its always been one of my better pitches, especially as an out pitch, Friedrich told MLB.com. But when were mixing and matching all of the other pitches, it definitely makes it a little bit better.Maeda, meanwhile, seeks just his fifth victory since beginning his major league career with four quality starts in his first four appearances. During that stretch, Maeda compiled a 3-0 record while allowing just one earned run in 25 1/3 innings.Since then, however, Maeda lost his next three decisions before winning three of his ensuing four. In his last start Tuesday night against the Baltimore Orioles, the 28-year-old rookie allowed four runs, seven hits and three walks in four innings to take his second defeat in his previous three decisions.When he has had good outings and gone deeper, obviously, the mix is good, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told the Los Angeles Daily News after that 4-1 loss. But youve got to make major league hitters respect your fastball, and that you can locate it. For a major league starter to get three times through an order, you have to make batters respect different pitches. If they can lock in on a certain pitch, it just makes it that much tougher.Hitters have been able to decipher Maeda once they survive the early innings. Entering Sundays game, opponents were batting .191 before Maeda reaches 75 pitches but .351 afterward.I think simply put its a control issue, he told the Daily News through an interpreter. For me, I think its more of an execution issue, more about command and control which I definitely didnt have today.Another disturbing trend: Maeda has lasted seven innings just once, on April 17 in a 3-1 win over the San Francisco Giants.After 75 pitches, third time through, the breaking ball has to be especially sharp, Roberts told the Daily News. If its not, theres damage to be had.In Japan, Maeda was the one doing damage. During his eight-year career with the Hiroshima Carp in Japans Central League, the right-hander won 15 games three times and compiled earned-run averages ranging between 2.60 and 1.53 in the past six years.Last season, Maeda led Japans Central League with 15 wins, compiled a 2.09 ERA and held opponents to a .222 average. Maedas performance earned him the Sawamura Award as the best pitcher in Nippon Professional Baseball for the second time.The Dodgers signed Maeda to an eight-year contract worth $25 million in January after declining to re-sign right-hander Zack Greinke or to pursue two other highly regarded free-agent starters, right-handers Johnny Cueto and Jeff Samardzija -- who helped the San Francisco Giants compile baseballs best record. Deron Williams Jersey . Darren Helm scored on Detroits sixth attempt in the shootout and then Jonas Gustavsson stopped Andrew Shaws shot, lifting the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-4 win over the Chicago Blackhawks on Wednesday night. Donovan Mitchell Jersey . "Four now," Carl Gunnarsson told the Leaf Report proudly following a 5-2 victory over New York on Tuesday night, the clubs fifth straight at home. https://www.cheapjazzonline.com/468e-paul-millsap-jersey-jazz.html . -- Aldon Smith believes he is on the path to being sober for good.Liverpool legend Phil Thompson believes Jurgen Klopp faces a tough decision over whether to select Mamadou Sakho for Thursdays trip to Borussia Dortmund. The Reds travel to the Westfalenstadion for their Europa League quarter-final first-leg, with their defence set for a difficult test against the competitions favourites.Klopps men have failed to keep a clean sheet or win any of their last three games, with Sakho facing criticism for his performance in Saturdays 1-1 draw with Tottenham. Martin Skrtel could be the other option for Jurgen Klopp The French centre-back did not make a single tackle and won just 40 per cent of his duels according to Opta, although alternative option Martin Skrtel did not fare much better in his last appearance, coming off the bench at half-time with his side leading 2-0 in a 3-2 defeat to Southampton.Thommo told Sky Sports: Im not really sure what Sakho was doing in the first half against Spurs and he was extremely lucky to go unpunished, which you cant expect to be the case against this Dortmund side.He obviously had a very difficult game and Dejan Lovren did very well to bail him out, but if you leave him out that will wreck his confidence.I would say Skrtel is very much in contention to start in Germany, but its a very big call for Klopp. Mamadou Sakho has been a first-choice pick under Jurgen Klopp Thommo predicts. Jazz Jerseys China. .. Find out what Thommo is tipping up for Dortmund v Liverpool at 20/1 here. Thompson, who won three European Cups at centre-back for Liverpool, believes the return of Brazilian Roberto Firmino could be key to their chances of taking a positive scoreline back to Anfield.Im hoping Firmino will be fit as hes probably the most important player with the form hes been in, the Soccer Saturday pundit added.I do think that Liverpool have to score to have a chance of qualifying because youd expect them to find the net, but they need to be clever and not go chasing the game at 1-0 like Tottenham did.Its the toughest game they could have got but if we go through then theyve got a really good chance of winning the competition. Also See: Henderson playing injured Charlies European predictions Martin Tylers stats Henderson calls for focus ' ' '