n the summer of this year, and suddenly being on the verge of

LOS ANGELES -- Having been neither traded nor in the starting lineup for more than a week, Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig will finally get some playing time.Puig, who is dealing with his second hamstring issue this season and his fourth in the past two years, is scheduled to be in the starting lineup Sunday for the Dodgers series finale against the Arizona Diamondbacks, manager Dave Roberts said.Puig has not started a game since July 20 at Washington. The following day, after entering that game as a reserve, he tweaked his right hamstring running up the first-base line.?Puig has come to the plate just three times since, including Friday night as a pinch hitter against the Diamondbacks. He was retired each time.I dont feel hes 100 percent, and every day weve given him hes gotten better and better, Roberts said. If theres a chance he could regress, then Im not going to put him in there.Its just balancing the fact I dont think hes a DL, but I dont want to put him in harms way.According to media reports, the Dodgers are listening to teams that might be interested in acquiring Puig, who burst upon the major league scene in 2013, and remained productive into the 2014 season, but has largely underachieved since.A hamstring issue on each leg last year reduced his season to 79 games. Puig batted .255 in 2015 with a .322 on-base percentage and a .436 slugging percentage. He has played 80 games this season around his two hamstring issues, hitting .254/.315/.375.In his 159 games over the past two seasons, Puig has hit a combined 18 home runs with 70 RBIs.The Associated Press contributed to this report. Adidas Nmd r1 Damske . Robredo, ranked No. 16, bounced back from an upset loss to Leonardo Mayer in the second round of the Royal Guard Open in Chile last week to down Carreno Busta in 1 hour, 25 minutes. On a day filled mostly with qualifying matches, fifth-seeded Marcel Granollers of Spain also entered the second with a 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 win over Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia, while Guido Pella of Argentina defeated Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain 7-6 (6), 6-4 to advance. Basketbalové Boty Adidas . Los Angeles star goalie survived those perilous gymnastics with no problem, and he eventually backstopped the Kings to a skid-snapping win. Quick stopped 27 shots in his return from a 24-game injury absence, Jeff Carter scored the tiebreaking goal with 7:55 to play, and the Kings snapped their five-game losing streak with a 3-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Saturday night. http://www.botynmdlevne.com/ . The Oilers come in having lost five in a row (0-4-1) and 16 of their last 20 games, dropping a 2-1 decision to the Vancouver Canucks on Tuesday. Adidas Boty Pánské Nmd . Numbers Game looks into the Canadiens securing the services of Thomas Vanek in a trade with the New York Islanders. The Canadiens Get: LW Thomas Vanek and a conditional fifth-round pick. Adidas Nmd Dámské . In Europe, top teams seem to be largely happy with their squads after spending nearly $1 billion in the off-season. And although English league clubs are unlikely to splash cash in January, Arsenal and Chelsea could be tempted to strengthen their squads with new strikers. Who: Samsung Galaxy (South Korea, 8-1) vs. H2k (Europe, 8-2)When: Saturday, Oct. 22 at 6:00 PM Eastern/3:00 PM PacificWhere: Madison Square Garden in New York City, New YorkWhats at stakeFridays prime time meeting between the ROX Tigers and SK Telecom T1 is a culmination of a two-year rivalry between the two best teams in the world during that timeframe, and only one will make it to Los Angeles for the Summoners Cup Finals. It is arguably the biggest match in Worlds history, and thats saying a lot for a match not even taking place in the final.Saturdays semifinal in comparison is a matchup between two teams that have been facing internal obstacles over the past two years to make it to this point.Samsung Galaxy, the organization that won the 2014 Summoners Cup Final with Samsung White, was looked at as a cheap club after letting all of its rosters players move to China for bigger contracts in the wake of the World Championship. Two years (and a laundry list of roster movements) later, and Samsung has made it back to the final four of the biggest tournament in League of Legends.SSG took its own way back to the top. Instead of investing a million dollars by picking the shiniest names in free agency, it doggedly chiseled on a slab of stone before ultimately finding the right pieces to craft a roster from. It wasnt easy, and at times it felt like the rebuild would lead to nothing but mere middling status, but Samsung pulled through with key acquisitions and rookie signings when needed. The signing of veteran Kang Ambition Chan-yong was huge for an inexperienced roster, and the position switch of Jo Core JJ Yong-in from AD carry to support was the last change to finally get the team over the hump from an above-average team to an elite one.Europes H2k was seemingly in turmoil less than three weeks ago. It started the tournament with an 0-2 record, and it needed a win against wildcard INTZ from Brazil to keep its bracket stage hopes alive going into the second week.I would prefer to go out as first seed but that doesnt seem to be very likely because our team is vvery inconsistent, although were all really good players and actually a really good team, said the teams ace AD carry Konstantinos-Napoleon FORG1VEN Tzortziou to ESPN following his teams first week performanceSince then, H2k has found itself as a team and is on the roll of a lifetime, reeling off seven straight wins to top its group in the first round and blow out the other wildcard team, CIS Albus Nox Luna, in a one-sided quarterfinal sweep.dddddddddddd With the semifinals now in front of it, all bets are off. H2k doesnt need to be the most consistent team in the world, but if it can put together two stellar performances in a row, the European second seed might very well end up in Los Angeles pushing either ROX or SKT to the brink.Matchup to Watch: Park Ruler Jae-hyuk and Jo Core JJ Yong-in (SSG) vs. Konstantinos-Napoleon FORG1VEN Tzortziou and Oskar Vander Bogdan (H2k)Ruler is in the rare position of being a complete rookie, only having begun his pro career in the summer of this year, and suddenly being on the verge of making the Summoners Cup Finals. His bottom lane partner, Core JJ, while not an inexperienced player, can also be considered a rookie when it comes to the role of playing support, as he switched from AD carry to that position in large part due to Rulers signing to the team. Weirdly enough, the bottom lane has been a strength of the team throughout the tournament, and the odd pairing of pro-gaming rookie and position-swapper has only resulted in wins for Samsung.Core has played seven games this tournament, and hes perfect, winning in every single one.For H2ks bottom lane, this could be Europes best chance at making its first Summoners Cup Final since Fnatic and Against All Authority did it back at the inaugural Worlds in 2011. FORG1VEN has had one of the best tournaments of any player at the competition, and hell be a frontrunner for the MVP award if H2k can slip past the South Korean favorite in the semifinal. ' ' '