by Rowan Kavner

The Dodgers activated pitcher Yu Darvish, who’s expected to make his debut Friday for the Dodgers.

Darvish was activated Wednesday, two days after the Dodgers acquired him Monday from the Rangers. To make room for Darvish on the active roster, the Dodgers optioned right-handed pitcher Josh Ravin to Triple-A Oklahoma City.

“It’s an honor to be here, to play for such a great team,” Darvish told reporters Wednesday through an interpreter.

Darvish said he already feels comfortable with his new teammates, and he knows how important it will be to fit in on a Dodger group playing as well as it is right now.

The move to the National League will be new for him, but he looks forward to helping out and joining a stacked starting rotation that owns the best ERA (3.21) and WHIP (1.14) in baseball. The Dodgers’ staff has two NL Pitchers of the Month this year and two pitchers in Hyun-Jin Ryu and Kenta Maeda coming off performances of seven shutout innings.

And that’s before even getting to All-Stars Darvish — who led the American League in opponents’ batting average (.218) and strikeouts per nine innings (11.04) since making his MLB debut in 2012 — and Clayton Kershaw, whenever Kershaw’s able to return.

“He’s the №1 pitcher in all of baseball right now,” Darvish said. “I look forward to playing on the same team, and I would like to learn a lot of things from him. At All-Star when I was talking to him, he told me, ‘I’ll be waiting for you in three weeks,’ and it actually happened. It’s pretty amazing, I’m just excited to be here.”

Here’s more from Darvish’s introductory press conference in Atlanta, where the Dodgers will look to extend their winning streak to 10 games for the third different time this year Wednesday night:

Other Notes:

· No Dodger club has ever had three separate 10-game winning streaks in a season, a feat the Dodgers will try to accomplish Tuesday. If they do so, they’ll be the first team to accomplish the feat since the 1954 Milwaukee Brewers.

· The Dodgers have reached 75 wins faster than any team in franchise history.

· Brock Stewart makes his second start of the season Wednesday.

· Justin Turner gets a day off Wednesday, with Chase Utley leading off and playing second base and Logan Forsythe shifting over to third base. Chris Taylor is in the №3 spot in the lineup, starting there for just the eighth time this year.