The Dodgers don’t need home runs in NLDS Game 1 – Orange County Register

Those who watch the Dodgers regularly fully understand the meaning when a hitter gets a base with, we must say, an elegant hit, and all of his bunker peers begin to shake their hands sideways, palms.

For starters, that means, “the barrels are overrated.” In other words, you don’t have to hit it with nails to be productive.

And regardless of the remainder of the post-season played on a soccer field it might also be an example for Texas – everything is bigger, or at least looks like this – their success going forward may depend on how well they score without copious numbers of home runners. .

Tuesday night at Globe Life Canyon, which isn’t really her name but it should be, the Dodgers had four balls to die on the warning track, and not a single one was hit in the sixth inning by a franchise that never had one of her shooters punched but was in the midst Bullpen is an unintended game.

The Dodgers ended up winning the Division’s first game against Padres, 5-1, and their sixth winning rally consisted of Walk to Chris Taylor, doubling Mookie Betts in the left corner of the field, sacrifice by Corey Seager, a ball to the right against a turn by Justin Turner For an RBI single, double to left by Max Muncy, and a single by Cody Bellinger for RBI and Unruly Trail to score another run.

Having demonstrated such offensive prowess, instead of just mashing like they often did, the Dodgers may already have Padres by the neck. San Diego had 24 shots from starting player Mike Clevinger before he had to leave the match, and his elbow appears to be a problem again, having trailed 2-0 to Bellinger who led the second half. Padres ended up using nine pitchers, tying their own post-season record, and ditching 10 walks, a NLDS record.

Is Padres’ compromised? They didn’t need to use Trevor Rosenthal, Drew Pomeranz, or Emilio Pagán on Tuesday, so the back end of their Bulls game is resting for Game 2 Wednesday night. But if they don’t get some length from one or two starters over the next two nights, they might be in trouble.

Seeing as many painkillers as they did Tuesday was a positive in itself for dodgers over a long streak.

“Our aim is always to get into the bulls of the teams, especially in the post-season period, to try to get to the pens as soon as possible and get these players to earn a lot of money,” Turner said. “As the series goes on, you get these guys over and over again. You wear them, you end up getting more bugs.”

Maybe in time. Some of these errors may cross the line, but it may not be wise to rely on them.

The Dodgers led the baseball game in home run during the regular season with a score of 118, hitting five during the August Series in Arlington vs Rangers. On Tuesday, however, the ball did not look significantly better with the roof open, at 79 degrees night, than it did with the roof closed all season.

Case in point: AJ Pollock thrashed one in the fifth game with two and two, after Bellinger hit the base on what scored a throw foul by second baseman Jake Cronenworth to score the equalizer. It might have unlocked the game there, but Jurickson Profar stopped it in the warning lane.

Supposedly, no one on the bench shook their hand after that, but you got the idea. On a night like that, in a park like this, shooting a ball isn’t always the best.

“I raised my hand at first base,” Bellinger said. “I thought he got it. Looking up, it was 95 (exiting velocity) bats, I guess. I was surprised it stayed.”

On the eighth day, Monsie hit one similarly caught midfielder Trent Gresham on the track. Previous game, Kiké Hernandez and Betts hit deep balls captured at Globe Life and may have shot out at Dodger Stadium.

(Any of the dodgers who were watching A’s and Astros earlier in the day in their private stadium may have been suffering from the pangs of jealousy. Five balloons left in that match, two of which were by George Springer of Houston.)

How did the “barrel exaggeration” ritual begin, anyway?

Bellinger said “CT,” referring to Taylor. “I think it was in 2017. I don’t remember exactly what happened. I think it took a few hits where we say our thumb fell off, it kind of hurts when you get a jam and you get rid of it. That was kind of a thing for the last few years.”