Dodgers Need To Get Offensive

They have lost two well pitched Kershaw games (@ St Louis, Atlanta), three games where a defensive lapse hurt the team (@ Atlanta, St. Louis, Colorado), a couple of other blown saves (Atlanta, @Arizona) and finally just some tough games (Haegar against St. Louis, Lincecum @ SF, Chad’s 6th inning adventures; @ St. Louis, Chicago). I can only think of the Florida series, game two of the road series at St. Louis, Milwaukee series, last game of the Atlanta series, and Danny Haren’s start in Arizona as games where the Dodgers were probably going to lose.

 I think it starts with Manny (remember the team last year, before he got there?) When he’s mashing, everyone around him is more relaxed and seems to have better and more productive at bats. I don’t know if it’s psychological, or if I’m just imagining it, but when he’s hot, the Dodgers are hard to beat.

will shake up the lineup at some point? Loretta hasn’t been the answer at 1B, what about Blake there and Abreu at 3rd?

And he’s going to be good, YOU KNOW THIS MAAAAAAAAAAAN

On Baseball-Reference, Manny took over the LF spot on the 2009 Dodgers page.

They determine the listed starters at each position by defensive innings at each position, and Manny passed Pierre last night. LF innings to date:

Manny 577.1
Pierre 570.0

The rest of the offense is ranked by plate appearances, and the pitchers’ batting is listed after that.

If anything to delve into their tired bullpen to give us a chance against De La Rosa. Last nights game was very disheartening, but hopefully we can pull through today. I will say, even though Rockies fans outnumbered Dodger fans 8 to 1, there was an equal amount of Dodger gear and memorabilia floating around the ballpark. cough bandwagon fans…but that doesn’t matter and we live to fight another day.

Andre simply torches RHP on the road. Andre looks as mismatched as Ryan Howard against LHP and now teams that didn’t use to bring in LHP for him are doing so. On the plus side that means with Manny behind him he will get that LHP unless they bring in a different pitcher which helps eat up a bullpen.

The offense is what it is, the only difference I see going forward is Manny hitting which as we know will make all the difference in the world. I dont’ expect Martin to start hitting with authority in August, I don’t expect Hudson to hit like he did in April. This is what he is. Maybe Rafy can pick it up a little and maybe James can have one hot streak before the season is over but with our luck his hot streak will coincide with Andre or Matt slowing down.

We have to win games when our team scores four runs. We had been bragging all weekend about our relief pitching and then we go out and have three different relief pitchers give up a run. This team can’t do that.

The lineup is not getting changed at this point, so the starters simply have to do better.

Every time someone thinks about asking about someone else playing 1st base or moving Joe blow here and there remember that quote. Nothing is changing this year. You guys are asking about benching a 1st baseman and replacing him with either a middle infielders bat (Abreu) or a Juan Pierre bat and neither are as good as a lousy Loney bat. Pierre has been terrific as a pinch hitter lately but other then his incredible beast Mode May, his starting numbers are the same they have always been as a Dodger and that will not help this offense.

It pains me to see the Dodgers have a bunch of hits to turn up 3 runs… It’s a re-occuring stat line every fan fears. Loney last night was terrible, he got luck on his side in his last at-bat. When are you going to turn it on, Loney? You’re Mr. Coors. This is your time to shine. Please get something going for yourself, man. Be the clutch hitter you once were. We’re tired of the soft ground outs to 2nd.

the time is now for the Dodger offense to hit or get off the pot.

Yes! Beacuase as Chicago’s Geovany Soto’s 0.166 decline in OPS this season has shown, it is impossible to simultaneously do both.