The analogy doesn't quite work, but the above was the best I could come up with for the latest result. Los Angeles got a rare first-inning lead on Andre Ethier's two-run homer, but gave it up for good on a three-run homer by Houston third baseman Chris Johnson in the sixth inning. The Dodgers lost their sixth straight game and fell to 69-72.
Only four Dodger teams have finished below .500 since 1988. According to my research on Baseball-Reference.com, no Dodger team has ever entered September with a winning record and finished the season with a losing record.
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A native of Los Angeles, Jon Weisman has been writing about the Dodgers at Dodger Thoughts since 2002 and thinking deeply about them since the 1970s. He is the author of 100 Things Dodgers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die, published in 2009. Weisman began covering sports professionally in 1985, complemented by adventures in writing for and about the screen that have culminated in his current position as a features editor at Variety. Any downtime he can muster will be happily spent with his wife and three young children.
TEAM LEADERS
| BA LEADER | ||||||||||||
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Matt Kemp
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| OTHER LEADERS | ||||||||||||
| HR | M. Kemp | 39 | ||||||||||
| RBI | M. Kemp | 126 | ||||||||||
| R | M. Kemp | 115 | ||||||||||
| OPS | M. Kemp | .986 | ||||||||||
| W | C. Kershaw | 21 | ||||||||||
| ERA | C. Kershaw | 2.28 | ||||||||||
| SO | C. Kershaw | 248 | ||||||||||
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