The Dodgers entered Monday’s game batting .148 with the bases loaded this season, but Teoscar Hernandez and Andy Pages came through with bases-loaded doubles in a four-run fourth inning to fuel an …
The Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman, right, high-fives Shohei Ohtani after they both scored on a ground rule double hit by Teoscar Hernández, not pictured, during the fifth inning of their game against the Arizona Diamondbacks on Monday night in Phoenix. The Dodgers entered Monday’s game 4 for 27 with 13 strikeouts in bases-loaded situations this year, a starvation diet in the all-you-can-eat buffet of scoring opportunities.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts has declined to characterize this visit to Chase Field as any kind of grudge match or chance to exorcise the memory of last fall’s sweep. The Dodgers’ recent playoff failures have been more about themselves than the opponents, he said Monday. Revenge will have to wait for October anyway. But the Dodgers did defy two of their early-season nemeses Monday – they got hits with the bases loaded and didn’t strike out in the game. Forty-four batters went to the plate for the Dodgers without striking out, their first K-free game since 2006.Over his 11-year big-league career, Paxton has a walk rate of 2.9 per nine innings. But this year, he has walked 22 in 25⅔ innings including five in five innings against the Diamondbacks.
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