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  March 20, 2018 8:19 PM PDT

  LOS ANGELES - Clayton Kershaw will face hitters Tuesday as he sets his sights on returning to the Los Angeles Dodgers in September. P.J. Williams Jersey .The teams staff ace had a 60-pitch bullpen session Friday at Dodger Stadium and is expected to square off against Dodgers minor leaguers in a simulated game either in Los Angeles or at the teams complex in Arizona while the rest of the club is in Colorado for a three-game series.Yeah Im excited, Kershaw said. The next step is to face hitters so Im excited to do that for sure.The Dodgers have not released a timetable of when Kershaw might return to the majors, but after the simulated game, he is expected to pitch in a game setting before he comes back. Complicating that plan, though, is that the minor league seasons at the Single-A, Double-A and Triple-A levels end Sept. 5.Kershaw is intent on pitching again this season, but has given no guarantees he will be back in time to finish the regular season.The three-time Cy Young Award winner last pitched in a major league game on June 26 at Pittsburgh. After that outing, a mild disk herniation emerged. He pitched in a simulated game on July 16, but a setback that day caused him to restart the recovery process.Dodgers manager Dave Roberts remained vague when asked about Kershaws return. Ken Crawley Jersey . The All-Pro lineman got the leg bent under him while trying to make a tackle during the first half of a 22-20 overtime loss at Miami on Thursday night. The medical staff initially thought hed torn the ligament, and the test a day later in Cincinnati confirmed it. Craig Robertson Jersey . The Redskins announced Monday that the quarterback who led the team to the Super Bowl championship in the 1987 season will serve as a personnel executive. http://www.cheapsaintsjerseyselite.com/ . -- In one brief spurt, Brazil turned a close game into a rout and proved again it will be a strong World Cup favourite. Hong Kong 169 for 5 (Nizakat 62, Hayat 49) beat Ireland 129 (Thompson 44, OBrien 32, Aizaz 3-10) by 40 runsScorecard Hong Kong kickstarted their two-match T20 international series against Ireland with a 40-run win, made possible by Nizakat Khans half-century and followed up by a collective effort from their medium pace attack.Its Hong Kongs second straight win in T20Is over Ireland, following up their dramatic five-run win defending 129 at Malahide in last summers World T20 Qualifier. Despite picking five debutants in a bid to rejuvenate their T20 lineup after a winless campaign at the 2016 World T20 in India, Irelands woes in the format continued again on Monday. Ireland has now gone five T20Is without a win, their last victory coming against UAE on February 14.Nizakats prior career-best in 19 T20Is entering Mondays contest was 29 but given the opportunity to open the batting for the first time he responded in style with 62 off 43 balls. Six of his seven fours were struck through the off side while his two sixes were lofted over extra cover and long-on. He brought up his fifty in 35 balls when he took two runs from a dropped chance on 49 at long-on by Greg Thompson off of debutant legspinner Jacob Mulder, then punished the error by driving Mulders next ball for six back down the ground.Knocks of 49 off 31 balls from captain Babar Hayat and an unbeaten 29 from Ehsan Khan took Hong Kong to 169 for 5 after they elected to bat at Bready Cricket Club. Aizaz Khan, who opened the batting alongside Nizakat, then led the charge with the ball as his 3 for 10 in three overs helped bowl Ireland out for 129.Nizakat dominated an opening stand of 41 in 4.4 overs with Aizaz, the latter contributing just 5. He went on to add 56 more for the second wicket with Hayat before he was fooled by Mulder. Having committed to a prremeditated shuffle away from leg stump, Nizakat continued with his shot to a ball pitched wide outside off by Mulder and produced a simple catch to cover. Sam Mills Jersey. Babar made sure the tempo of the innings was maintained though, his 31-ball knock containing two fours and as many sixes, until his dismissal in the 17th over. Ehsan then ensured a strong finish to the innings with his 22-ball unbeaten knock that contained two fours and a six.Irelands bowlers shared the wickets equally with four different bowlers - Mulder, Andy McBrine, Craig Young and Kevin OBrien - claiming one apiece while the fifth came courtesy of a runout in the field by Thompson. Mulder and McBrine were economical but Young and OBrien were expensive, leaking 56 and 39 runs off their respective quotas. Four of Hong Kongs five sixes in the innings came off of Youngs bowling.Ireland stuttered early in the chase and were reduced to 24 for 4 before the recovery started through a fifth-wicket stand of 59 between OBrien (32) and Thompson, who top-scored with 44 on debut coming in at No. 6. They were the only two batsmen to make it past 15 in the Ireland innings, which was wrapped up in 19.3 overs.Aizaz found support from Hong Kongs new-ball pair of Tanwir Afzal and Nadeem Ahmed. Former Hong Kong captain Afzal clean bowled Dave Rankin and Sean Terry in his opening spell while left-arm spinner Nadeem had Ireland captain William Porterfield caught at mid-off in the second over before coming back in a later spell to claim McBrine stumped for 10. Medium pacer Tanveer Ahmed also took two wickets while Ehsans offspin accounted for OBrien.The second and final match in the series takes place on Tuesday at the same venue. ' ' '