The arch-rivals are neck-in-neck for the National League Wild-Card spot with just a handful of games left in the season, and the presence of Green — the first L.A. Dodger to ever hit 40 home runs in back-to-back seasons — could be pivotal.
The High Holy Day may be a factor in the Oakland A’s race for the American League West’s divisional crown, however.
Jewish relief pitcher Al Levine of the Anaheim Angels will almost definitely sit out a 5 p.m. home game on Sunday vs. the Texas Rangers, and team personnel were uncertain if the 34-year-old middle reliever would suit up in Oakland the next evening.
Fellow reliever Scott Schoeneweis, whose mother is Jewish, is almost dead certain to be in uniform on Yom Kippur, however.
“My mom’s Jewish. I’m not,” he told the Canadian Jewish News earlier this year. “My birth certificate says I’m Jewish, but I don’t practice and my kids won’t be raised that way.”