July is in the books

Phil Gurnee ♦ August 1, 2017 ♦ Leave a comment

The best July in Dodger history is in the books.

Year    W  L W-L%
2017   20  3 .870
1962   20  6 .769
2013   19  6 .760
2004   21  7 .750
1997   20  7 .741
1985   20  7 .741
1961   19  7 .731
1960   19  7 .731
1963   21 10 .677

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Generated 8/1/2017.

Batting Status for July 2017:

Look at all that hitting.  Four starters with an OPS over .900  Six starters with an OPS over .800.  Puig just missing at .797.  It doesn’t even feel like Joc Pederson is doing anything and yet here he is with an .878 OPS.

Trayce Thompson is quite the outlier here.

Player              HR PA  H 2B RBI   BA  OBP  SLG   OPS
Corey Seager         6 98 30  8  14 .333 .388 .622 1.010
Chris Taylor         3 97 37 10  15 .394 .412 .660 1.072
Justin Turner        5 94 19  3  11 .260 .404 .507  .911
Cody Bellinger       4 94 21  2  13 .263 .372 .463  .835
Logan Forsythe       1 87 18  5   9 .254 .368 .366  .734
Yasiel Puig          4 74 19  1  10 .271 .311 .486  .797
Yasmani Grandal      4 62 19  5  11 .317 .339 .600  .939
Joc Pederson         3 60 14  5   5 .264 .350 .528  .878
Enrique Hernandez    2 51  8  0   3 .190 .333 .381  .714
Austin Barnes        2 42 10  0   5 .286 .405 .457  .862
Chase Utley          1 40 10  3   4 .278 .350 .444  .794
Trayce Thompson      0 25  2  1   1 .087 .160 .217  .377

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Pitching Stats for July 2017:
Basically, everyone was good to great except Brandon McCarthy and Kenta Maaeda. Look at the work put in by the long men Stripling and Stewart.
Rich Hill was fantastic.

Player              G SO   ERA GS   IP BB  WHIP  SO9 SO/W   OPS
Rich Hill           5 40  1.45  5 31.0  5 0.774 11.6 8.00  .509
Clayton Kershaw     4 33  0.72  4 25.0  4 0.760 11.9 8.25  .422
Alex Wood           4 23  4.01  4 24.2  7 1.216  8.4 3.29  .680
Kenta Maeda         4 13  3.86  4 18.2  6 1.500  6.3 2.17  .815
Brandon McCarthy    3  9  6.75  3 14.2  5 1.841  5.5 1.80  .943
Kenley Jansen      12 16  2.92  0 12.1  3 1.135 11.7 5.33  .663
Hyun-Jin Ryu        2 12  1.50  2 12.0  4 1.167  9.0 3.00  .633
Brock Stewart       5  7  0.00  1 11.2  3 1.029  5.4 2.33  .493
Brandon Morrow     12 14  4.09  0 11.0  2 1.091 11.5 7.00  .522
Pedro Baez         11  8  1.69  0 10.2  1 0.938  6.8 8.00  .594
Josh Fields        10 10  2.61  0 10.1  4 0.968  8.7 2.50  .559
Ross Stripling      6  8  0.90  0 10.0  2 0.700  7.2 4.00  .434
Luis Avilan        12 12  2.08  0  8.2  2 0.692 12.5 6.00  .573
Josh Ravin          2  1  0.00  0  3.1  1 0.300  2.7 1.00  .091
Edward Paredes      2  1  0.00  0  2.1  0 0.000       3.9  .000
Grant Dayton        2  0 27.00  0  1.1  0 4.500       0.0 1.900

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Generated 8/1/2017.