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The Futile Dodger Offense: An Explanation

The Dodger offense has been futile for around six weeks now. Several inherent flaws have been exposed. I am sure you have heard them before. The lineup is one-dimensional, and too reliant on home runs. The offense has no speed, and is a station to station base running club. All of those are true of course, but those aren’t the primary reason the Dodgers aren’t scoring runs.

Let’s just be clear on this for a minute. The Dodgers ARE NOT SCORING RUNS. This is a club that went 41 innings without scoring a run, and over a week without scoring a run on the road.