Dodgers’ Freedie Freeman reveals exactly what Los Angeles needs to change
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The Los Angeles Dodgers haven’t played the best baseball through the first two games of this NLDS against the Atlanta Braves, losing 3-2 on Sunday night after an impressive 5-3 win in Game 1.
For Los Angeles, it always seems like it’ll find a way to win games. But this is baseball at the end of the day, and if it doesn’t come out and take care of business, the Braves will take advantage. Atlanta is a veteran-led team from top to bottom with a boatload of talent.
The process hasn’t been perfect for the Dodgers, either, as they’ve struggled to scrape together runs in multiple ways.
While home runs are typically how teams score in Major League Baseball nowadays, the Dodgers are relying on the long ball a bit too much, at least according to superstar Freddie Freeman.
“Gotta find a way to score some runs without hitting a home run; that’s our biggest thing right now.”
“Two really good teams going at it,” Freeman added, per H/T Dodgers Blue.
Freeman left the yard in Sunday night’s loss, blasting a solo shot in what was a two-hit night for the future Hall of Famer.
Otherwise, the Dodgers collected only six hits and couldn’t get anything going against Didier Fuentes, who threw 3.2 innings of one-hit baseball, striking out three and walking zero.
The Dodgers are going to have to put together some very good at-bats in Game 3, as left-hander Chris Sale, one of the best we’ve ever seen, will toe the tilt.
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