Freddie Freeman and J.D. Martinez extend their long hitting streaks to continue a solid month of offense and the Dodgers mix in some slick defense in a 9-3 victory.
LOS ANGELES ― A deep lineup was not necessarily the Dodgers’ strongsuit when the month of May began. Will Smith and J.D. Martinez had spent much of April battling injuries. Jason Heyward struggled to keep his batting average above .200. A slow start by Max Muncy further hampered the middle of the lineup.
“You look around and there’s four or five guys on any given night who can hurt you, who can carry the load,” Martinez said. “Someone seems to step up every night. It takes a lot of pressure off everybody else.” Freeman was thrown out trying to stretch a single to a double, but his eighth-inning homer extended his franchise record for extra-base hits in a month .
Thanks to some slick plays in the field and a forgiving marine layer above the Dodger Stadium outfield, Gonsolin allowed only three hits ― all in the third inning. That led to the lone run he allowed, when Gonsolin also hit Jeimer Candelario with a slider to load the bases ahead of an RBI single by Joey Meneses.
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