The Dodgers had an interesting trip to the Midwest this week where they swept the White Sox – as expected – but then they flew right back to the West Coast to visit the Giants. Even after having Thursday idle, the travel seems to have caught up with Los Angeles as they dropped the series opener in San Francisco 5-3 on Friday night. San Francisco is now 4-1 on their current home stand as they try to tighten their 11 game deficit in the NL West. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Los Angeles offense is kind of in neutral right now, being held to 4 runs or less in five of their last six games. This is a top five offense in baseball, but they haven’t really had that 8 or 9 run explosion as much as since a visit to Colorado two weeks ago. Of course, the Dodgers also have the second best team ERA in baseball (3.27) so they’re doing just fine in the win\/loss column.<\/p>\n\n\n\n