Dodgers Baseball June 2017
June 3, 2017
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Dodgers Baseball June 2017 and they are in First Place!
season ends, but as a Dodger fan it was hard to watch the way the team was playing in March and April. It appeared that it was going to be just another year of so-so playing, hitting and pitching for the Dodgers and another year of so-so managing for them as well. I am glad that the team for the most part as turned it around and could give the Rockies a run for 1st place and get into the playoffs.
June’s Sports Blog, Dodgers Baseball June 2017
I wrote a very similar blog to this last year and as I was writing this there had not been much change in the way the Dodgers were playing. A few of the names of the players have changed but the results were pretty much the same. However as I am continuing to write, the Dodgers have moved from 3rd place into 1st place at the close of May.
Dodgers Baseball June 2017 and They’re in Fist Place
I know it’s only June, and there is still a lot of baseball left before the season ends, but as a Dodger fan it was hard to watch the way the team was playing in March and April. It appeared that it was going to be just another year of so-so playing, hitting and pitching for the Dodgers and another year of so-so managing for them as well. I am glad that the team for the most part as turned it around and could give the Rockies a run for 1st place and get into the playoffs.
We complained about the lack luster dodgers under the management of Don Mattingly, so he gets replaced by Dave Roberts. However, with this being his second year with the Dodgers, I was really hoping for more from Dave Roberts and for the first couple of months it was really hard to watch him make the choices he made. But that was April; May has been a very good month for Roberts.
This past April’s performance was not up to what we have come to expect from our beloved Dodgers and there are still several problems that are so apparent even to us couch coaches. Some of the problems were with the younger player, the rookies’ just learning the game as a Dodger.
However, I am going to blame a lot of problems on the Dodgers older players not staying healthy, such as Ethier, Van Slyke, Turner, even Utley and Gonzalez have not been able to stay off the DL. The list for the Dodger pitchers that are on the DL is even longer.
Unfortunately some of these problems were the reasons the dodgers did not make it past the first round of the playoffs last year and well as the year before that.
The first and foremost problem is that the dodgers only have ONE solid pitcher by the name of Kershaw and even Kershaw is showing his age a bit. You might be able to win your division with one pitcher, the dodgers did exactly that last year, but with only one dependable pitcher, you are not getting past the first round of the playoffs. The Dodgers really need to find a way to keep the pitchers off the DL.
We have Maeda, who doesn’t have the strength to pitch past the 5th inning and the one time he does, he is immediately moved over to the DL list. Don’t even get me started on Ryu, 5 losses – only one win and he was a starter??
The Dodgers have at least improved their list of good relief pitchers, they haven’t blow has many leads this year, at least so far.
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The Dodgers know that it takes more than a couple of good hitters and one or two good pitchers to get the Dodgers to the World Series, hopefully for the rest of the season the Dodgers will continue to pull it together. They will need to be on top of their game to knock the Rockies out of first place.
But what about Dave Roberts himself? Should I question his ability to do what is necessary to bring the team together? Some say yes, some say no. Roberts didn’t help his cause much either when during the Dodger game against the Rookies on May 11, he left Ryu in to pitch even when he allowed 10 runs. But he is definitely a better manager than Mattingly was and he does seems to be doing well with the rookies and that’s a good sign.
Dodgers’ Dave Roberts is named Nat/sporional League manager of the year.
As the Dodgers closed out May the Dodgers are just a tad over 600 and in 1st place with a half game lead on the Rockies. The Dodgers’ rival, the Giants are in fourth leaving the Padres once again in last place.
The Dodgers finished the month of April with 14 wins and 12 losses. May started out a little better but not enough to overtake the Rockies with 19 wins and 9 losses.
The Dodgers need more than Kershaw, it’s unfair to expect him to carry the team to the playoffs especially after his last performance on May 28 when he had to be pulled out before he even completed the fifth inning .
Some of the best baseball fans are Dodger fans, no matter where the Dodgers are playing; you will see Dodgers fans in attendance, proudly wearing their Dodger blue hats and jerseys and rooting for their Dodgers.
Let’s hope the dodgers can totally re-group during the All-Star break and come back strong enough to overtake the Rockies for 1st place once and for all and get into the playoffs.
Dodgers Baseball June 2017
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