How an Unlikely Brotherhood Between Teoscar Hernández and Andy Pages Is Quietly Powering the Dodgers’ Rise

That strain beget a slump, Pages batting .159 through the season’s first three weeks.

But Hernández continued to support him, both in public comments to reporters and private chats between the two, aiming to simply “keep his mind positive.”

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“We’re not talking about what he’s doing wrong, or the slump he’s in,” Hernández said. “Just trying to tell him: ‘OK, let’s try this. Or that. Whatever it is for you to feel good with what you’re doing on the field.’”

Part of the slump, Pages felt, came from adjustments he had while primarily batting in the nine-hole — feeling the need to be overly selective in hopes of getting on base for leadoff man Shohei Ohtani.

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