Matt Kemp Has 20/20 Vision

He didn't score or drive in a run during the three games in Washington DC -- hardly any Dodgers did -- but Matt Kemp is still having an amazing April.  He is hitting .316/.379/.645 through the first 18 games of the season, with seven home runs.  Also, when he touched home plate in the third inning Thursday in Cincinnati, Kemp became the 52nd Los Angeles Dodger to both score and drive in 20 runs in a single month.

Kemp joins Tim Wallach (in 1994) as the only LA Dodger to accomplish the 20/20 feat in April, which is understandably rare since the season used to start much later in the month than it does today.

There are still five scheduled games left in the month for the Dodgers, weather permitting of course.  Kemp still has a chance to join a more exclusive company, the 25/25 club:

• Tommy Davis had a hell of a year in 1962, winning a batting title while driving in a club record 153 runs.  His worst RBI month that year was the paltry 22 he drove in during August. 
• Everybody remembers Guerrero's historic 15-homer June. 
• For purposes of classification, March games count in April and October games count in September.  Marshall in 1985 scored 24 runs and drove in 30 during his 30 games during the month of September. 
• Sheffield was as good a hitter to ever wear a Dodger uniform. 
• Who can forget how hot Nomar was during the first half of 2006?

This is the second 20/20 month for Kemp, who scored 22 runs and drove in 27 last August.  There have been just nine LA Dodgers to reach the 20/20 club more than once:

Willie Davis and Shawn Green lead the pack with six 20/20 months.  Green is the only LA Dodger to have three such months in a row.  From June to August 2001, Green scored 65 and drove in 70 runs in an 82-game stretch.

Here is the full list of 20/20 months in LA Dodger history: