The Dodgers collectively didn’t hit much at all in May, and saw four of their five opening day starting pitchers get injured. Their ace was hurt on the first day of the month and then returned on the last day of the month, only to get hurt again.
They were swept at home by the last-place Reds, and swept the now half-game-out-of-first place Nationals on the road. It was an odd month.
Despite all that the Dodgers slogged to a .500 mark in the month and somehow still managed to shave their division deficit in half, trailing by eight games at the start of the month but four back now.