I knew I was moving the ball forward and I was feeling better and better. “No, even going into that (current hot streak) I was hitting the ball. “Everyone has his own opinion – that’s what I’ve found out over the last three, four months,” Freeman said with a laugh. Roberts was right – neither player would admit it if that’s the case. Certainly, those guys use it as a little bit of fuel and we’re the beneficiaries.” But anything a player can use to motivate them to get through the grind of a season I think is a benefit. “I don’t think either play will admit it. “Right now he’s as good a player omitted from the All-Star team as I could imagine.”īoth Freeman and Smith might be motivated by being overlooked for the All-Star Game, Roberts offered. Just goes to show how he’s swinging the bat, seeing the baseball, using the whole field. It seems like everything he swings at is center-cut. “The ball looks like a melon up there, he’s just seeing it so well,” Roberts said. That was the ninth consecutive time Freeman had reached base. He doubled in the fourth inning (his 30th of the season in just the 88th game) and scored the first run of the game on an RBI single by Justin Turner. You’re just trying to get good pitches to hit and I’ve been hitting them lately.” When I swing I hit it and I’m not fouling any good pitches off. “It just feels like I’m recognizing strikes and I’m hitting the strikes. You just try to ride it as long as you can until it suddenly ends – because this is baseball and it is going to end, unfortunately,” Freeman said. The major-league leader with 111 hits, Freeman has gone 13 for his past 16, reaching base in 16 of his past 19 plate appearances. For Freeman, it was his fourth consecutive multi-hit game since not being named to the NL team on Sunday. If the Dodgers had a few more players not make the All-Star team, they might be unstoppable.įreeman and Smith each went 2 for 3 on Thursday. Smith and Freddie Freeman weren’t among them. The Dodgers had four players named to the National League All-Star team. “He was mixing really well with his pitches and also the timing in his delivery. “I thought he did a really good job,” Dodgers catcher Will Smith said. No Cardinal got past second base against him and only two even got that far. He gave up just three hits and walked two. Their starting pitchers in those previous three games – Julio Urias, Mitch White and Tony Gonsolin – combined to allow 16 runs in 12 innings, putting the Dodgers in the trail position each time.Īnderson put an end to that skid. They won five of those six games including two of the three they trailed by at least five runs. Thursday was the first time in six games the Dodgers scored first and the first time since Saturday that they hadn’t fallen behind by at least five runs.
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