By Manuel Acevedo
11 Oct 2023, 18:59 PM EDT
Mookie Betts He has become a fundamental player for the team. Los Angeles Dodgers since their arrival in the 2020 season, becoming a key player in his last championship. However, in the last two postseasons he has not been able to provide the performance expected by the Californian team.
The native of Nashville (United States) has not had the best of luck with the bat for three years and coincidentally his team has not been able to qualify again for the World Series.
If you count from the 2021 postseason to today, Mookie Betts He has a batting average of .250, one home run, 17 hits, six RBIs, .324 SLG, .329 OBP and .653 OPS. These numbers are good for any player, but not for a player who is a candidate for the National League Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award.
If we add the 2022 postseason and so far in 2023, the Dodgers’ top star only hits for .095 average, two hits, one home run, one RBI, .231 OBP, .143 SLG and .374 OPS.
Another statistic that catches the attention of Betts is that in these playoffs He has not been able to connect with a hit against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He has only been able to get on base once and it was the product of a walk he received in the first game of the series.
The last time the number 50 of the Dodgers hit more than five hits in a postseason series in 2020 against the Tampa Bay Rays.
Although it is worrying that the team’s top star cannot hit, it draws much more attention than The second best offense in the National League only had 10 hits after 64 at-bats consumed and only four runs produced. In terms of statistics against Arizona, the entire lineup is hitting .156 on average.
Although it seems very complicated that the team of Los Angeles Dodgers can come back in this series, they have a large number of players capable of lighting up the bat to turn the series around. To achieve that, their starting pitchers will have to improve the work they have been showing since the beginning of the postseason.
The third game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks will be this Wednesday. Lance Lynn will be the starter for the Californians and Brandon Pfaadt will have that responsibility for the Diamondbacks.
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