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Trending Up, Trending Down: Greinke & Kershaw Shine, Rollins Improving

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Clayton Kershaw: Taking the mound against the Nationals and Mets, Kershaw continued his brilliance in the month of July. He followed up eight scoreless innings with a complete game shutout where he allowed just three hits and struck out 11.

It marked the third consecutive start in which Kershaw recorded at least 10 strikeouts without issuing a walk or allowing a run to score. He became the first pitcher to do so since Cy Young in 1905. Kershaw’s season ERA plummeted to 2.51 and his WHIP sunk to 0.94.

Zack Greinke: Despite his scoreless streak ending at 45.2 innings in a start against the Mets, Greinke was still excellent. Going seven innings, he allowed seven baserunners (four hits, three walks) and two earned runs while striking out three.

While it was a good outing, his ERA slightly increased from 1.30 to 1.37 and his BB/9 increased to 1.56 on the year. Prior to facing the Mets, Greinke threw eight shutout innings with 11 strikeouts against the Nationals.

Jimmy Rollins: Getting a start in nine of the last 10 games, Rollins is arguably is in the midst his best offensive stretch of the season after four rough games. In his last 22 plate appearances, Rollins reached base nine times (six hits, three walks; .409 on-base percentage).

Four of those hits went for extra bases, including the three home runs he hit at Citi Field. With the solid week, his slash line improved to .212/.271/.355.

Honorable Mentions:

Mike Bolsinger: Making one start against the Braves, Bolsinger went seven innings while allowing just three hits and no earned runs.

Justin Turner: Picking up eight games and playing in nine overall on the road trip, Turner recorded 14 hits in 33 at-bats (.424 batting average), including two home runs and four doubles.

Adrian Gonzalez: Starting in nine of the road games, Gonzalez went 15-for-34 (.441 batting average) with three home runs, two doubles and five RBIs.

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2 Comments

  1. I believe that Puig was benched each day after he hit a homer. I wonder if between his injuries and these “rests” if he is just having a hard time getting locked it. I was really skeptical about his being taken out of right field for the ninth inning last night. I don’t think that Granderson would have gotten the double (or even have tried it) if Puig had been there.

  2. Granderson would have certainly not run on Puig in the 9th inning, IF and only IF Puig managed to hustle to the ball and there’s just no way you can be sure he would have hustled to the ball, or even been ready for the play, or even perhaps not had his back to home plate picking his nose when the pitch was thrown! Furthermore, If Puig had perhaps been pulled earlier in the game or perhaps not been in the lineup at all, would the dodgers still have had NO runs at the end of the 8th inning? Puig right now as a part of the lineup and defense is like playing russian roulette with 4 rounds in the cylinder – there’s more down side than up side.

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