After 5 straight losses, the membership's longest dropping streak in 5 seasons, the Dodgers made just a few tweaks to their beginning lineup for Monday's sequence opener towards the Mets at Citi Discipline in New York.
Over the past two video games in Cincinnati, the underside of the Dodgers' lineup after Teoscar Hernández – 4 spots within the lineup Saturday, and 5 on Sunday when catcher Will Smith had a break day – have been with out success in a mixed 26 at-bats, with two walks. The group scored a run in each losses.
After Sunday's loss to the Reds, supervisor Dave Roberts informed reporters at Nice American Ball Park, “I'm going to make a few modifications tomorrow, however these are our guys.”
Miguel Vargas began in left discipline on Monday, simply his third begin in 9 video games since being recalled from Triple-A.
Jason Heyward makes his first begin in middle discipline this season, and begins three days in a row for the primary time this season. That is Heyward's seventh begin in 10 video games since lacking 40 video games on the injured checklist with again tightness. A five-time Gold Glove Award winner in proper discipline, Heyward began 12 video games in middle discipline final yr.
As a bunch, Dodgers 7-8-9 hitters are hitting simply .185/.253/.286 this season, lifeless final within the majors in OPS, batting common, and slugging share. His on-base share ranks twenty eighth, one thing to construct on, I believe.
The heaviness of the lineup has been an issue all season, however with Max Muncy nonetheless sidelined with an indirect pressure, the standard high six has been a high 5, with the Dodgers in each recreation beginning a number of gamers who’ve, no less than up to now till now in 2024, they’ve submitted offensively.
In 10 video games with Muncy out, Kiké Hernández began 9 occasions at third base and Miguel Rojas as soon as. Rojas is within the sizzling nook on Monday in New York. All the Dodgers' third basemen in these 10 video games — 30 plate appearances by Hernández, three by Rojas, one by Chris Taylor — are 6-for-33 with a house run and a stroll, hitting .182/.206/. 273 with an RBI. .
Monday is Rojas' fifth begin at third base this season.
However third base isn't the one level of bother for the Dodgers of late. Total over the past 17 video games since Might eighth, he's hitting simply .210/.275/.358 with an 82 wRC+ that ranks twenty eighth within the majors, rating twenty sixth in that span with 3.47 runs per recreation, and a .147. remoted energy that ranks solely twenty first.
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