Successful offensive May is in the books

Phil Gurnee ♦ June 1, 2017 ♦ 1 Comment

Overall Record 33 wins / 21 losses

May Record – 19 wins / 9 losses

Position – 1st place /  half a game in front of the both the Rockies and Diamondbacks

Dodgers led the NL in runs scored in May with 159, averaging 5.67 runs per game.  That was forty-seven more runs scored in April, with only two additional games.

May Hitting stats for 2017:

Player                 OPS  PA  R  H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SO   BA  OBP  SLG
Austin Barnes        1.031  36  7  9  5  0  1   6  7  4 .310 .444 .586
Chase Utley           .974  83  9 22  3  3  3  14  8 13 .314 .402 .571
Chris Taylor          .941 107 20 29  5  0  4  14 17 28 .322 .430 .511
Yasmani Grandal       .897  91  9 29 10  0  2  16  5 20 .337 .374 .523
Cody Bellinger        .880 118 22 26  5  1  9  27 11 40 .245 .314 .566
Enrique Hernandez     .878  69 15 16  9  0  2  11  8 14 .271 .353 .525
Brett Eibner          .856  20  3  4  0  0  2   6  1  9 .222 .300 .556
Franklin Gutierrez    .839  26  4  6  1  0  1   4  4  6 .273 .385 .455
Andrew Toles          .825  26  5  9  2  0  0   2  1  4 .360 .385 .440
Justin Turner         .808  63  9 17  2  0  0   5  8 11 .333 .435 .373
Corey Seager          .758 116 21 25  7  0  2   7 17 24 .255 .371 .388
Adrian Gonzalez       .677  55  2 14  4  0  1  10  1 12 .269 .273 .404
Logan Forsythe        .664  32  2  4  1  0  1   3  7  8 .160 .344 .320
Yasiel Puig           .646  97 16 20  2  0  4  16  6 23 .222 .268 .378
Joc Pederson          .588  64  9 10  3  0  1   4  6 15 .182 .297 .291
Scott Van Slyke       .582  11  1  1  0  0  1   1  1  3 .100 .182 .400

Provided by Baseball-Reference.com: View Play Index Tool Used
Generated 6/1/2017.

Hitting standouts:

• Chase Utley with 3 doubles/ 3 triples / 3 home runs
• Seven players with a slug% over .500
• Every bench player except SVS had an OPS over .800
• Kiké with nine doubles in only 69 plate appearances
• Cody Bellinger led offense in runs scored, homer runs, RBI, and strikeouts
• Chris Taylor tied for team lead in hits and led team with most walks
• Grandal tied for team lead in hits and led the team in doubles with ten.

Hitting Notes:

• Grandal only walked five times preferring to swing the bat in May
• The Dodgers had an exceptional offense in May with their best hitter Cory Seager merely being ordinary.
• Puig only hit four home runs but that was good enough for second on the team for the month.
• Adrian Gonzalez walked one time in fifty-five plate appearances.  I suspect this was his lowest OBP of his career for a month.

Hitters who might qualify for historic LAD May Leaderboards:

• Bellinger with his nine home runs
• Bellinger with his twenty-seven RBI
• Grandal / Taylor with twenty-nine hits
• Grandal with ten doubles

We will find out later today as I work my way through this May.