Los Angeles Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts revealed when proper fielder Teoscar Hernandez started to show round his poor run of type in the direction of the top of the common season.
Hernandez batted .256 in September, his highest mark throughout a single month since Could. He ended the season on a six-game hit streak, and carried his momentum into the postseason.
“It began after that sequence in Colorado,” stated Roberts. “I believe that’s when he type of actually turned it on, and it’s a protracted season for all these guys. However I felt that that’s the purpose the place he was, like, you already know what, I’ve acquired to be higher, I gotta play higher, I gotta play higher protection, I’ve acquired to dial up the offense. And the offense has actually ratcheted it up in September, although.”
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The Dodgers’ last sequence in opposition to the Colorado Rockies ended Sept. 10, and Hernandez was particularly scorching within the following days. LA’s subsequent sequence got here in opposition to the San Francisco Giants, and after going hitless within the opening recreation, he had again to again multi-hit performances in opposition to the Dodgers’ division rivals. He had seven hits throughout 11 at-bats throughout these video games.
Hernandez featured in 11 extra video games through the the rest of the common season, and recorded no less than one hit in seven of them.
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The slugger has risen to the event, and has maybe been the Dodgers’ finest hitter through the postseason. He had two homers within the Dodgers first recreation of the playoffs in opposition to the Cincinnati Reds, and hit a game-winning three-run shot in Sport 1 of the NLDS in opposition to the Phillies. His 1.428 OPS leads all Dodgers who’ve an at-bat in all three postseason video games to this point.
The Dodgers have a 1-0 sequence lead over the Phillies heading into the second recreation of the sequence, when Blake Snell will make his second begin of the postseason. Sport 2 begins Monday at 3:08 p.m. PT.
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