Friday’s game was tied 2-2 until AJ Pollock and Max Muncy hit two-run home runs in the eighth inning.įanGraphs allows us to separate team-wide plate discipline data during the Dodgers’ four-game losing streak that began Monday and ended Thursday, and during the three-game winning streak that began Friday and continued through Sunday. On Saturday, Bellinger ended the game with a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Their big inning Sunday was powered by McKinstry’s grand slam and a two-run home run by Cody Bellinger. “Trying to cross our T’s and dot our I’s.”īased on that quote, one would think the Dodgers have won three straight games because they began playing small ball: bunting, hit-and-runs, contact plays, stolen bases, and the like. “Having team at-bats, getting a guy over in scoring position, moving him in, scoring him – things like that,” McKinstry said. He said veterans Albert Pujols and Justin Turner addressed the team privately and spoke to the need to do something different. After the game, I asked him about the team’s collective response to being no-hit on Thursday. Zach McKinstry hit a grand slam on Sunday. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. The Dodgers were two different teams last week (figuratively, not literally) – Orange County RegisterĮditor’s note: This is the Monday, June 28 edition of the Inside the Dodgers newsletter from reporter J.P.
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