The Dodgers May Have Turned The Corner With Their 3rd Straight Win

BusinessSportsMoneyThe Dodgers May Have Turned The Corner With Their 3rd Straight WinByDan Freedman,Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Freedman is lawyer and IBWAA member who writes about baseball.Follow AuthorMay 16, 2026, 03:30pm EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Teoscar Hernández and the Los Angeles Dodgers are starting to feel good again with their third straight win. (Photo by Scott Strazzante/Getty Images)Getty ImagesThe Los Angeles Dodgers may have finally turned the corner. After suffering their fourth straight for loss for the third time in less than a month, the back-to-back World Series champs needed to do something to change their mediocre ways.That, of course, is hyperbole, insofar as the fourth straight loss left them just half a game behind the San Diego Padres, and still the odds-on favorite (per various betting sites) to win their third straight title. But, they most certainly were not playing solid baseball. More specifically, they were not hitting.The next night, the Dodgers took the club’s (and all of MLB’s) best hitter over the past two seasons out of the batting lineup and called on him to pitch. And all Shohei Ohtani did was throw seven scoreless innings while yielding just four hits and striking out eight. Two relievers shut down the San Francisco Giants in the eighth and ninth innings to break Los Angeles’ losing streak.But, more importantly, the Dodgers had nine hits in their eight times to the plate, with rookie Santiago Espinal and recently-off-the-IL Mookie Betts slugging back-to-back home runs to lead off the bottom of the third inning. The struggling Kyle Tucker (.253/.356/.400 going into the game) had two hits, as did Teoscar Hernández (.241/.320/.368), who had been moved down to the eighth spot in the lineup the night before.On Thursday, Los Angeles came up with another eight hits, and scored five...