Tag Archives: Cody Bellinger
Kenta makes Roberts look good
Many questions, and many answers last night. We will start with the NL baseball decision. Should you pinch hit for your starting pitchers as early as the 4th inning? Your pitcher struggled in the first inning putting the team in a hole by three runs, but has gotten his act together and kept the score …
Updated May Hitting Stats – May 22nd
Dodger record in May 12 wins 7 losses Dodger overall record, 24 wins 18 loses, tied for 2nd place, two games behind Rockies Three regular players with an OPS over 1.000, 2/3 of the way through May. No wonder the Dodgers have a great record in May. Offense looks to be held down by Seager …
Bellinger climbing up LAD May Leaderboards
With 2/3 of May in the books, Cody Bellinger is already in the top ten in LAD May leaderboards for home runs and RBI. At this moment headed into the May 21st game, Bellinger has 22 RBI and 7 home runs in May. His 7 home runs would put him tied for 4th in LAD …
Dodger depth keeps getting tested
The Dodger mantra the last two years has been the depth of the forty man roster. The Dodgers tested that depth to the extreme last year related to the rotation when fifteen different pitchers toed the mound to make a start for the Dodgers. In 2017 it is the position players getting tested. It all …
Dodger offensive resurgence fueled by Bellinger / Taylor / Toles
On the day the Dodgers brought up Cody Bellinger on April 25th their record was a floundering 9 – 11. Chris Taylor had been brought up on April 19th. Toles had an OPS of .678 on April 24th. It was like Bellinger lit a fire under his arse because one of them was going to …
Bellinger and the LAD multiple HR multiple position list
Eric Stephen put together a nice list of the exploits by Cody Bellinger based on what he had done in his first eleven career games. However, the one stat that fascinates me was the one where he had hit multiple home runs from multiple positions. I had to update this column because Cody Bellinger keeps …
Bellinger goes boom
Cody Bellinger stepped right into Adrian Gonzalez’s big shoes last night and set a few records when he slugged two home runs. Bellinger became the youngest LAD first baseman to ever hit two home runs in a game. Before that James Loney owned the feat. Below is every LAD 1st baseman to perform the feat …
One fairly tough decision down, two to go
The Dodgers activated Franklyn Gutierrez off the DL and sent Scott Van Slyke to AAA. Van Slyke will join Trayce Thompson in an effort to find his swing with full-time at-bats. The last time Scott Van Slyke was in the minors that did not involve a rehab assignment was 2013. This seemed like the obvious move. …
Should I stay or should I go?
The Dodgers are coming up upon a moment of decision. They brought up their best prospect Cody Bellinger to fill the void of Joc Pederson who hit the ten day DL. The first few games saw Bellinger struggle which led to Dave Roberts proclaiming that no matter what Bellinger did he was going back to AAA …
Dodgers, Yesterday and Today 