All the Dodgers needed to do to fix their early offensive woes was take a trip out to America\u2019s capitol.<\/p>\n
After scoring a combined seven runs in three games against the Cleveland Guardians, the Dodgers offense has woken up from its slumber in a thunderous manner. Five Dodgers hit home runs on Friday, which featured Shohei Ohtani\u2019s and Kyle Tucker\u2019s first of the year, and they have scored 23 runs over 18 innings of offense against the Washington Nationals. Leading the charge down at the seven spot for Saturday\u2019s contest was Andy Pages, and he is continuing to light the baseball world on fire.<\/p>\n
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Pages is now slashing .500\/.516\/.833 with a team-leading three home runs and 10 RBI, having whiffed just 10 times compared to his 15 hits on the season, leading the league in that category. Amidst all the future Hall of Fame names within the starting lineup, it is the Dodgers\u2019 25-year-old budding center fielder that has ignited the rest of the offense.<\/p>\n
Both Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and Nationals manager Blake Butera praised Pages for his outstanding start to the season, with the former noting how much more complete of a hitter he has become, per Sonja Chen of MLB.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s controlling the zone, he\u2019s fighting when he gets two strikes, he is hitting to all fields,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cRight now, he\u2019s showing he\u2019s a complete hitter.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHe\u2019s the best hitter on the planet right now, it seems like,\u201d Nationals manager Blake Butera said.<\/p>\n Links<\/p>\n Freddie Freeman has broken out of his early season slumber in a big way over the past two games against Washington, as he now has two doubles, a home run and five RBI so far. With his two doubles on Saturday, he now has eclipsed the 550 doubles plateau and passed his former Atlanta Braves teammate and mentor Chipper Jones for 32nd on the all-time doubles list.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Freeman reflected on reaching yet another milestone in his career while also remarking about Jones\u2019 impact on him during the early stages of his career in Atlanta, per Bill Plunkett of the Orange County Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAs I\u2019ve gotten older, I do appreciate what I\u2019ve been able to accomplish,\u201d Freeman said of his latest milestone. \u201cHopefully, I still have a lot more in my future. But 550 is pretty cool.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m sure (Jones) will respond that he\u2019s still got me in homers. But Chipper has meant a lot to me, my approach \u2026 There\u2019s just a lot that he taught me when I first came up. He definitely meant a lot to me early on, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n Tyler Glasnow joins Yoshinobu Yamamoto as the only Dodgers starting pitchers to toss two consecutive quality starts to begin the season, as the right-hander tossed another six innings of two-run ball, this time striking out nine Nationals hitters on 101 pitches while securing his first win of the season.<\/p>\n