How Did Teoscar and Kiké Turn the Dodgers’ Fate Around in a Stunning Pirates Showdown?

Teoscar Hernández, whose home run was his seventh this season and 199th of his career, said he doesn’t think about hitting the ball out of the park.

“Just narrowing the strike zone, trying to get a good pitch, a better pitch, [make] that strike zone little so we cannot make mistakes swinging out of the strike zone,” he said. “I don’t think anybody is going up there looking to hit a homer. If you put a good swing on it, the ball’s going to go.”

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Most years a healthy portion of the long balls would be courtesy of Max Muncy. But the malady afflicting much of the Dodgers lineup seems to have infected the third baseman with a particularly virulent strain. If antibiotics were the cure, he’d be taking a handful. Rest isn’t really what he’d prefer.

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