ST. LOUIS — Shohei Ohtani has gone hitless in 4 straight video games, one thing that hasn’t occurred in 4 years.
Los Angeles Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts stated Sunday after a 4-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals that he believes in his star to “come out of it sooner or later.”
“He actually has excessive requirements,” Roberts stated. “All of us do of him. I do know he’s pissed off, however you may’t inform from his demeanor.”
Ohtani’s 0-for-3 day pushed him to 0 for 14 over his final 4 video games, his longest hitless streak since going 0 for 12 over 5 video games with the Los Angeles Angels from Could 24-28, 2022.
Ohtani’s struggles have mirrored these of the crew round him. The Dodgers haven’t homered in six straight video games for the primary time since going homerless in eight straight from July 10-21, 2014.
Freddie Freeman went 2 for 4 and drove in a run in Sunday’s win that snapped a four-game dropping streak through which the Dodgers scored two runs or fewer in each recreation.
“Offensively, we simply haven’t been superb the final week,” Freeman stated. “Simply name spade a spade generally. There’s no solution to sugarcoat it. We simply haven’t been superb, and we’ve obtained to be higher.”
Ohtani drew a stroll within the third inning to snap a streak of ten straight plate appearances with out reaching base, and his 12 hitless at bats versus the Cardinals are his most in a single sequence in his profession.
“There’s a bit little bit of a mechanics half that he’s been speaking about, and I believed we sort of figured that out at dwelling,” Roberts stated. “This sequence, I don’t assume he felt nice, in between a bit bit on the pulled grounders, getting beat with the fly balls to the large a part of the sphere, so a bit in between, I believe. However, protected to say, truthful to say that he’ll determine it out quickly.”