If the Dodgers had a theme song for July, it would be Let the Good Times Roll.
The Dodgers are coming off a four-game sweep of the San Francisco Giants and are in the midst of a season-high eight-game winning streak.
These Dodgers haven’t had a losing streak since the end of June, when they lost two games in a row to the Colorado Rockies on June 27-28.
The Dodgers are 15-1 in their last 16 games. They are 19-2 in their last 21 and 24-5 in their last 29 games.
It all adds up to an 11.5-game lead over those pesky San Diego Padres in the National League West standings.
Oooh, let the good times roll. Let ‘em roll.
``Certainly we’re hot,’’ Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told the Associated Press after Sunday’s 7-4 win over the Giants at Dodger Stadium.
How hot you ask?
The Dodgers had to rally to win Sunday’s game. They trailed 2-1 before taking a 4-2 lead in the third inning. The Giants scored two runs in the fifth inning to tie the score 4-4, and chased Dodgers starter Clayton Kershaw.
But it didn’t matter.
The Dodgers broke the tie scoring three runs in the seventh inning and went on to win 7-4.
Jake Lamb hit an RBI double that scored Freddie Freeman to give the Dodgers a 5-4 lead. Trayce Thomspon, with brother and Golden State Warrior Klay Thompson in the stands cheering him on, added an RBI double to pad the lead to three runs.
The Dodger reserves are even producing.
But the stars are shining too.
If they got thunder appeal, let them be by your side.
Freeman went 2-for-5 and scored two runs in Sunday’s game. He has a 12-game hitting streak and raised his batting average to .325.
Trea Turner had a hit on Sunday and extended his hitting streak to 11 games.
Not only did the Dodgers sweep the Giants in a four-game weekend series, it was the first time that has happened at Dodger Stadium since 1995 and only the third time it has ever happened at Dodger Stadium.
Let the good times roll, let ‘em roll.
The lowly Washington Nationals visit Dodger Stadium for a three-game series starting Monday. Dodger fans showered Nationals outfielder Juan Soto with chants of ``future Dodger’’ during the All Star Game on Tuesday, and it definitely caught Soto’s attention.
Soto is rumored to be on the trade block and the Dodgers are a potential landing spot.
Not that they need Soto, one of the best power hitters in the National League, but the way things have been going for the Dodgers, they might end up winning this trade war too.
Dodger starter power rankings:
- Julio Urias
- Tyler Anderson
- Mitch White
- Clayton Kershaw
- Tony Gonsolin
The Dodgers (64-30) send Gonsolin and his perfect 11-0 record to start against the Nationals tonight at Dodger Stadium. Andrew Heaney is expected to return to the rotation on Wednesday against the Nationals. The Dodgers finish the week with a four-game series in Colorado against the Rockies starting on Friday.
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