The wait is over for Trayce Thompson. After 21 video games, 44 plate appearances, and 40 days, Thompson bought a base hit in a recreation. The slumping Dodger outfielder related on an RBI single towards Tampa Bay Rays starter Josh Fleming and felt the load of the world lifted off his shoulders.
The Dodger bench erupted.
“I used to be anticipating a champagne toast like when Freddie hit 300 or when Kersh bought his two hundredth win,” Thompson joked after the sport.
The floodgates opened for Thompson who collected two extra hits within the recreation together with his fifth residence run of the season. It’s the primary time he’s had a number of hits in a single recreation since his first recreation of the season.
“I knew it was coming. You’ll be able to’t do all this work and do all these items and all this preparation with out believing and having conviction and all that and simply going on the market and simply enjoying the sport. However it’s been arduous for me. I suppose final 12 months I bear in mind I used to be on a troublesome stretch after which I bought on base for 9 or 10 straight at-bats. This recreation is hard. You’ve simply bought to maintain going.”
The sport is hard is an understatement. Trayce went 75 plate appearances between multi-hit video games, hitting simply .066 with a .355 OPS over that stretch. He’s opened up in regards to the toll his struggles have taken on him mentally over the previous couple of weeks. However, by way of all of it, he’s maintained a constructive outlook.
“You’re gonna have stretches the place you’re not good,” Thompson mentioned final week. “Everybody goes by way of it. However you’ve simply bought to organize every day prefer it’s a brand new day, be optimistic. Have that perspective of, ‘I’m due,’ versus woe is me.”
Dave Roberts will hold giving the veteran probabilities towards left-handed pitching. That’s his “area of interest that he’s bought to meet,” in accordance with Doc. And boy does the staff want him to do this. The Dodger bench has been horrendous this season. Not one of many regulars off the bench is hitting above .250. If Thompson has actually damaged out of his stoop and might produce a clip nearer to what he did final 12 months, that will be huge.
Trayce Thompson entered at present on 0-for-39 stoop.
As we speak he’s gone 3-for-3 with a homer and a couple of RBI.
— Doug McKain (@DMAC_LA) May 28, 2023
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