Tampa, Florida – Steinbrenner Field races should not be as difficult as Dodgers made it appear this weekend.
The spring training stadium, which is coupled with the temporary house of the Tampa Bay Rays this season after the tropicana Field grater in a Hurricane Household, has dimensions inspired by little Florida this weekend in the summer heat of Florida this weekend.
However, for 18 rounds, from the top of the sixth Friday evening at the end of the fifth Sunday afternoon, the Dodgers only put zeros on the dashboard.
They could not capitalize on the short porch in the right field. They did not meet any cheap circuit in the middle of conditions which should have helped the ball to fly.
During a 3-0 victory against the Rays on Sunday, the Dodgers offensive in different ways instead.
At the top of the sixth, the coach of the third base, Dino Ebel, decided to wave his arm on an aggressive shipment by Freddie Freeman, who was heading for the plate and simply beaten a label to mark on the simple RBI of Andy Pages on the left.
“When he sent me, I said to myself:” Oh guy, I have to do that “, said Freeman. “”[After] Not marking any race yesterday, I understand. We must be aggressive.
In the seventh, the Dodgers (65-47) needed a single swinging of Shohei Ohtani, a walk at a march of Mookie Betts and a double steam of the two players to set up Freeman for another simple RBI.
“Even if we want to strike circuits each time, scoring 10 points, we were able to win matches like this,” added Freeman. “It’s a good sign for us.”
Indeed, in the ninth, the dodgers sewn the victory after Betts blurred an at-bat of 10 pass which ended with a bag of sacrifice of insurance scores in the center.
The Dodgers launcher, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, launched during the first round of a victory over the Rays in Tampa, Florida.
(Jason Behnken / Associated Press)
Such results will not do much to suppress concerns about the programming of the team, which experienced a brutal performance in July (when they scored the third plus of the majors) continue until early August.
But on a day yoshinobu yamamoto delivered 5 ⅔ scoreless innings (in which he struck out six drums without a walk) and the dodgers’ bullpen complied a second shutout of the rays (55-58) in Three games (Despite a base-load Ninth Against Blake Treinen), it was nonetheless enough to ensure the team return home from this nine-game road trip with winning 5-4 record. And, given their recent difficulties, a little momentum.
“We finally built sleeves, the situational touch was good, and we obtained key tubes,” said manager Dave Roberts. “This is the last of these long [road trips]. … but 5-4, I’m going to take it.
Dodgers in progress included another twist on Sunday morning. Two weeks after overthrowing Ohtani and Betts at the top of the order of the strikers, Roberts reversed the course by returning Ohtani to first place and dropping Betts – who remained mired during his collapse of a season – in the two holes.
At first, the results were not promising.
Betts finished in double game during the first round, immediately after Ohtani started with a walk.
In the fifth, the Rays intentionally walked Ohtani to put two on board in front of Betts. But he went to the center to put an end to the Channel, extending his recent sequence without a safe blow to 16 bundles.
“It’s just to try to understand what is the best in the short term,” said Roberts about the adjustment of the programming, while remaining undecided on the appearance of the order of striker in the coming days. “With [Teoscar Hernández, who got an off day] Not being there is the best program for today. »»
Roberts has suggested that more DIY could occur once Max Muncy returns from the injured list, which could occur on Monday – especially after the interior player Tommy Edman left the match on Sunday with an ankle on the right, which will likely land him on the injured list while he continues to fight the problems of the ankle of the season.
“I’m just trying to play hard from the game, benefits from certain situations,” said Edman, who immediately made pain after finishing the first base on a single in fifth round. “But it’s hard to do it when I don’t think I have the stability I need. It is frustrating and it removes part of my game.”
With Betts, Roberts also left the opening of the possibility of dropping him further into the order of the strikers, while he continues to search for responses to his average career striker. 233.
“I thought about it,” said Roberts. “I think it’s a totally fair question. I’m just trying to understand what would be best for him, for the team. But yes, I thought about it.”
For the moment, however, the dodgers cling to what they can.
Ohtani entered a recent slip on Sunday which included 20 stick withdrawals in his last 10 games, but has managed to reach the database four times in total to accompany two interceptions.
Freeman remained hot with his second performance three strokes of the trip, increasing his medium to the stick (which had slipped to 0.292 barely a week ago) up to 0.306. The only teammate Will Will Smith .324 is better this season in the National League.
And at the end of the day, even Betts had participated in essential contributions.
Its seventh round was one of the five that the dodgers drew, in a reversal of their performance without walking during the defeat on Saturday.
Then, in the ninth, Betts took one of his best bats from all over the road trip, enclosing four consecutive locations with two strikes from the Rays Griffin Jax lift before lifting a 372 feet in the center for its sacrifice fly.
“No real results,” said Betts after another day without success. “But I’m just happy to have helped the team.”
