The Dodgers lastly solved their current offensive woes on Monday.
And the reply, it turned out, wasn’t a lot of a thriller.
Positive, supervisor Dave Roberts famous in his pregame media deal with, the Dodgers wanted to be extra selective on the plate, coming off a 3-6 skid during the last two weeks during which they’d hit .218 as a workforce and averaged barely three runs per sport.
“When you’re swinging and trying to cover every pitch, all parts of the zone, that’s tough to do in the big leagues,” Roberts mentioned. “I think having an idea of where you want to hunt is a good start for us.”
Throughout afternoon batting observe, the Dodgers’ hitting coaches modified up the routine, too, having batters take swings off a high-velocity pitching machine — reasonably than gentle tosses from members of the employees — in hopes of bettering the offense’s mediocre manufacturing towards fastballs.
“We always prioritize hitting velocity, and that’s something we haven’t done great,” hitting coach Robert Van Scoyoc mentioned. “So, thought it was a good day to do it.”
However the largest distinction on Monday, within the Dodgers’ 5-3 win over the Colorado Rockies, was to the lineup itself.
Dodgers pitcher Dustin Could celebrates after putting out Colorado’s Michael Togliatti to finish the fourth inning Monday.
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For simply the fifth time in 18 video games, Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman had been all within the batting order once more.
And, for arguably the primary time this 12 months, the Dodgers’ Massive 3 seemed like their terrifying, thunderous selves — setting the tone, main the best way and quieting the rising questions in regards to the membership’s lately sluggish offense.
Betts hit a two-run house run within the high of the primary, after Ohtani led the sport off with a single. Ohtani went yard himself within the third inning, gathering his fifth lengthy ball of the season on a no-doubt blast to middle. Freeman tacked on two hits in a return to type following time away on the injured checklist.
Mixed, they had been seven for 14 with three RBIs and all 5 runs scored.
And whereas the Dodgers (12-6) obtained different contributions of their series-opening win at Dodger Stadium — most notably, a six-inning, one-run, seven-strikeout gem from starter Dustin Could — having their three famous person sluggers again, and bashing, collectively once more was simply the evening’s most welcomed sight.
