Kirby Lee/Image of Sport/US PresswireManny Mota, fastest pinch-hitting genius on three wheels ...When the Dodgers open Cactus League action Saturday with split-squad games on the road against the Angels and Giants, the starting pitchers are scheduled to be Hiroki Kuroda and Tim Redding, respectively.In other news and notes ...Today from Tony Jackson: Dodger hitting coach Jeff Pentland talks about James Loney.... it is precisely that -- not getting the ball to leave the yard, but getting Loney's bat into the relatively small hitting zone more quickly -- that Loney and Dodgers hitting coach Jeff Pentland have been working on not only since the start of spring training, but basically since the end of last season. Loney flew to Phoenix from his home in Houston twice this winter for extra w