Maybe I should say “choice” instead of “fault.”  The Dodgers obviously have an excellent offense, and are leading the league in “seeing” pitches.  The Dodgers get almost 160 pitches a game – more than any other team.  This wears down opposing pitching staffs, and of course results in more hittable pitches, but maybe this “discipline” also reduces the number of HR’s.  Maybe the taking of pitches is something that reduces the “aggression” of the hitter and results in fewer “bombs.”  Now, if we can keep up our scoring pace, what difference is it? However, something tells me we won’t, unless we do hit more HR – that’s the “conventional wisdom.”  James Loney has 2 HR, Russ Martin has ZERO, Matt Kemp has 4 and Andre Ethier has 6.  I am focusing on the young players because they are the ones who are “buying in” to this way of hitting.    Maybe Tony Jackson will have a different idea about this, but I think the approach that Pentland and Mattingly (our co-hitting coaches, although it has never been “announced” that they are co-instructors) are using may be causing our power outage… and should that concern us?  Maybe not!  Maybe that’s OK…. Read the full story