It was quality about quantity for the Dodgers on Monday night. A lot of empty clubs, recovered by some emphatic units that left the stadium.
In six tickets against Minnesota Twins holder David Festa, the Dodgers attack, only got four hits-a little hit to suppress the offensive concerns that set up for a low-production intriguing month.
Three of the beats, however, passed over the fence, with a explosion of two Shoi Ohtani races in the first round and a pair of Will Smith’s solo players in the bedroom and sixth raising the team to a 5-2 victory at Dodger Stadium.
A course correction, this was not for the supposed powerful offense of Dodgers.
Upon entering the night, the team had the third average of the lower teams in the main companies this month. As even the baseball operations president, Andrew Friedman acknowledged during the practice of rebound before the game: “We had more than half of our programming really” in the last six consecutive weeks.
“The offense fighting the way it has,” added Friedman, “it was something I didn’t expect in this kind of extended time.”
On Monday, however, the Dodgers corrected at least one issue by plaguing their recent offensive struggles. After reaching only 19 home runs in their first 15 games in July, they were deep four times against the twins (48-52), with Andy’s pages by adding an insurance photo in the seventh shift against rescuer Cole Sands. It only scored the fifth time this season, they hit at least four players in a single contest.
Ohtani provided the first major swing of the night, immediately erasing the explosion of leadership he gave up from Byron Buxton at the top of the first, while making his sixth season.
In his second game occupying second place in the order of rebounds, the two-way star was not forced to run between the mount and the plate (something that manager Dave Roberts expected to be a collateral benefit of replacing him with Mookie Betts as the team’s counters). He managed to go through his normal routine of swings on the deck while watching Betts take a walk of five throws.
So, for the first time in his six games as a throwing this season, Ohtani was not only hit, but hit a suspended exchange on a 2 and 1 count, releasing his 35th Home Run of the 441 feet to the center immediately.
From there, the Dodgers (59-42) continued to play long ball.
Party, a second -year destromation that entered the night with an average of 5.25, retired the next nine scouts he faced before Smith led the room.
Party advanced 1 and 2 in the count, before playing a change that Smith fought and losing a lot with sliding control. The next party throwing was a quick ball in the middle. Smith, the only Dodgers rebate who has been swinging a hot taco lately, has not lost, going to the other side of making the scoring 3-1.
Party was still in the game when Smith came back in the sixth. Once again, the pitcher made a mistake, hanging on sliding control over the heart of the plate. Once again, Smith was everywhere, sending a memory to the left field pavilion to his 14th Home Run and the first game of several Homees since last July.
1. Shohei Ohtani Rounds first after reaching a two-way Homer on Monday against the twins. 2. Dodgers’ cattle, Will Smith, right, celebrates with Freddie Freeman after hitting a solo home in the fourth shift. 3. Dodgers Center’s defender James Outman ends the game with a capture of jumping on the wall in the direct central field. (Luke Johnson / Los Angeles Times)
With both explosions, Smith raised his average leader of the National League to 0.327. Since early July, it has 15 by 40 with 1,163 ops.
When the pages added to the seventh leadership, beating on the 18th of the season on the left, the game was already in hand.
Despite giving up plenty of contact and without the Pinpoint command he shone in his previous matches, Ohtani kept the twins out of the board during the rest of his three -entry ride, collecting three strikes at 46 high season throws to finish the night with a 1.50 era.
After that, the converted Dustin can follow a Bullpen bulk bulk productive ride, spreading five hits in 4 ⅔ goalless entrances.
Dodgers, Tanner Scott, leaves the field with coach Greg Barajas, came out after suffering an injury during the ninth shift on Monday.
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The Dodgers did not leave the second unharmed. At the top of the ninth, Tanner Scott nearest left the game next to one coach after walking a pasta, beating another and then beating a slider that made him charmed.
When he left the field, he seemed to be flexing his left throwing arm – a potentially worrying signal for a Dodgers team who already needed Bullpen reinforcements before next week’s commercial timeframe.
Roberts said Scott felt a “bite” in his forearm and is “emotionally not quite”. He will undergo a magnetic resonance imaging on Tuesday.
But on Monday, at least, the team survived, with James Outman denying Carlos Correa a potential tie of three races in the replacement of Scott, Kirby Yates, with a capture jumped on the central field wall to the evening.
