""If you had said that we would have a six-week stretch where our offense would rank 30th in baseball, I would have said there was a zero percent chance," the Dodgers president of baseball operations said last month. "I would have been wrong," he quickly added."
""Not scoring runs," first baseman Freddie Freeman said last week, "it's just not who we are.""
The Dodgers led MLB in scoring (5.61 runs per game), batting average (.262), OPS (.796) and RISP (.300) through 88 games, going 56-32. From July 4 to Aug. 4 the offense ranked 30th in scoring, averaging 3.36 runs in a 25-game stretch. Over the subsequent 58 games the team averaged 4.21 runs, ranked 24th in scoring, 25th in batting average (.237), 18th in OPS (.718) and 22nd in RISP (.245), compiling a 26-32 record. Injuries, lingering swing issues for several stars, and thin depth contributed. Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts have shown signs of returning to form.
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