Dodger Briefs Aug 25th, 2014 – Turner time

August 25, 2014

Dodgers took two out of three from the Mets, picking up one full game on the Giants who lost two of three against the Nationals. The Dodger lead now sits at 4.5 games.
Dodger record in August is 12 – 11 but they thanks to the Met drubbing last night, they have only scored 85 runs to 96 runs allowed
Andre Ethier showed up this weekend getting back to back starts for the time in over a month. Andre went three for eight with no runs scored, and no runs driven in. In August Andre has just three extra base hits in thirty-eight plate appearances.
Justin Chigbogu set a Ogden franchise record with his nineteenth home run. Congratulations to Chigbogu but why did he get to spend so much time in a rookie league? It would have been nice to see what he could do as a Loon in late summer after failing there miserably in early spring.
Scott Schebler continues to lead the Southern League in triples and home runs. I don’t think that has been done before. I also think Schebler might have the Chattanooga franchise record for home runs as a Dodger affiliate but I have to investigate that.
In their last three starts the discount duo have gone thirteen innings while allowing fifteen runs scored. Roberto Hernandez will try to change that trend on Tuesday. Correria has his usual trend going 6 – 5 – 3 innings while allowing 1 – 4 -7 in his three Dodger starts. Bullpen for you.
Justin Turner continues his shocking offensive season hitting .412 for the week and now posting an amazing league leading OPS+ of 134 for 3rd baseman with at least 250 PA.

Player           OPS+  PA Lg  AB   BA  OBP  SLG  OPS
Justin Turner     134 257 NL 227 .313 .385 .441 .826
Nolan Arenado     129 392 NL 360 .308 .350 .522 .873
Todd Frazier      125 540 NL 487 .279 .343 .460 .803
Aramis Ramirez    122 410 NL 379 .303 .349 .456 .805
Anthony Rendon    118 559 NL 506 .277 .337 .457 .793
Pablo Sandoval    118 512 NL 473 .288 .330 .436 .766
Matt Carpenter    116 576 NL 490 .284 .376 .398 .774
Juan Uribe        106 319 NL 304 .293 .320 .411 .731
Casey McGehee     104 554 NL 495 .295 .361 .372 .733
Luis Valbuena     103 421 NL 374 .241 .321 .422 .744
Pedro Alvarez     100 437 NL 390 .231 .314 .400 .714
David Wright       98 537 NL 489 .266 .324 .368 .692
Martin Prado       90 436 NL 403 .270 .317 .370 .686
Cody Asche         89 355 NL 325 .246 .303 .375 .679
Chase Headley      88 307 NL 279 .229 .296 .355 .651
Chris Johnson      87 518 NL 496 .272 .297 .377 .674
Mike Olt           55 212 NL 187 .139 .222 .353 .575

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Generated 8/25/2014.