Weekly summation 4/9/17 – Runs a plenty, wins not so much.

Phil Gurnee ♦ April 10, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

With a week of baseball in the books,  the Dodgers managed a 4  – 3 record which puts them smack in the middle of the NL West.  It was a strange week where the offense scored in double digits three times in seven games.   When you outscore your opponents 40 runs to 22 you’d probably expect to win at least five of those seven but when 34 of those 40 came in three games you realize they were lucky to win four games.

On the plus side:

• they only lost one pitcher to the DL in Rich Hill.
• they finally tagged a left-handed pitcher on Sunday
• Puig has the highest OPS on the team
• They have four starting players with an OPS over .900
• Ryu and McCarthy gave solid efforts
• Kershaw has yet to issue a walk in 2017
• Josh Fields looks to have recovered his velocity
• Chris Hatcher has started 2017 very nicely

On the negative side:

• After opening day heroics, Grandal and Joc went into hibernation.  Grandal hit two home runs on opening day and those were his last hits for the week. Joc hit the grand slam on opening day and managed three singles the rest of the week. That means they were meaningless in Coors.
• Enrique Hernandez and Franklyn Gutierrez didn’t do much damage against LHP when asked upon.
• Clayton Richard toyed with the Dodgers.
• Freeland didn’t toy with them but he certainly beat them
• Logan Forsythe woke up on Sunday, but prior to that he had been MIA

Name                 PA R  H 2B HR RBI SB   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS OPS+
Yasiel Puig          29 5  7  2  3   5  1 .292 .414 .750 1.164  197
Justin Turner        26 3 10  5  0   3  1 .400 .423 .600 1.023  165
Corey Seager         29 4  8  2  2   7  1 .308 .379 .615  .995  155
Adrian Gonzalez      26 5  7  2  0   3  0 .350 .500 .450  .950  153
Joc Pederson         21 2  4  0  1   6  0 .250 .381 .438  .818  115
Austin Barnes        11 3  2  0  0   0  1 .222 .364 .444  .808  111
Scott Van Slyke      10 2  2  1  0   1  0 .250 .400 .375  .775  106
Andrew Toles         18 3  4  0  1   3  0 .250 .333 .438  .771  101
Enrique Hernandez     8 2  1  1  0   2  1 .167 .375 .333  .708   89
Yasmani Grandal      20 2  2  0  2   3  0 .118 .211 .471  .681   71
Logan Forsythe       29 4  6  1  0   1  0 .250 .379 .292  .671   81
Franklin Gutierrez   13 2  3  2  0   0  0 .231 .231 .385  .615   58
Chase Utley          12 1  1  0  0   0  0 .083 .083 .083  .167  -56

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Generated 4/10/2017.

Name                     ERA   IP ER BB SO ERA+   FIP  WHIP   H9 BB9  SO9
Clayton Kershaw         3.46 13.0  5  0 14  124  4.84 0.769  6.9 0.0  9.7
Kenta Maeda             6.30 10.0  7  3  9   69  4.70 1.400  9.9 2.7  8.1
Brandon McCarthy        3.00  6.0  2  1  4  148  4.33 0.833  6.0 1.5  6.0
Rich Hill (10-day dl)   1.80  5.0  1  3  5  249  5.40 1.000  3.6 5.4  9.0
Chris Hatcher           1.80  5.0  1  0  5  249  1.00 1.000  9.0 0.0  9.0
Hyun-Jin Ryu            3.86  4.2  2  1  5  117  4.28 1.500 11.6 1.9  9.6
Luis Avilan             0.00  3.2  0  1       4  1.63 0.818  4.9 2.5  9.8
Ross Stripling          2.70  3.1  1  0  5  172 -0.00 1.200 10.8 0.0 13.5
Grant Dayton            0.00  3.0  0  0       2  1.66 0.333  3.0 0.0  6.0
Kenley Jansen           9.00  2.0  2  0  2   55  1.00 1.500 13.5 0.0  9.0
Alex Wood               0.00  2.0  0  1       1  3.49 0.500  0.0 4.5  4.5
Sergio Romo             0.00  2.0  0  0       2  1.00 0.500  4.5 0.0  9.0
Josh Fields             0.00  1.1  0  1       4 -0.75 0.750  0.0 6.8 27.0
Team Totals             3.10 61.0 21 11 62  146  3.42 0.984  7.2 1.6  9.1
Rank in 15 NL teams        2    4  5  1                                 3

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Generated 4/10/2017.