Todd Frazier talks baseball and trying to hit against Zack Greinke

“It was a confidence thing, to be honest”, Hatcher said.

My takeaway on this road trip so far and only good note is that Stephen Strasburg is back and pitching great in his last two starts for the Nationals.

Hatcher believes he is ready despite unimpressive statistics in his rehabilitation assignments. Puig scored on a fielder’s choice for another run.

Enrique Hernandez, Yasiel Puig, Justin Turner and Adrian Gonzalez all homered, sparking the Dodgers to an 8-3 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Saturday night before 46,807 at Dodger Stadium. “It’s a (product) of who you’re facing sometimes”. “Glad it only lasted like three games”. It was his sixth homer since the All-Star break. Gray gave up seven hits including a three run homer in the 4th. Tucker Barnhart hit the first of five Reds doubles and then scored on the first of Billy Hamilton’s four hits.

However, Turner opened the bottom of the inning with his 14th home run of the season for a 6-3 Dodgers cushion.

Mat Latos struck out seven in his last start, an improvement over one strikeout in his first two starts as a Dodger combined, but just about everything else went wrong. He blasted a no doubt about it, 3-run home run to push the Dodgers to a 5-1 lead in Game 2 against the Reds, and then hit another to left field in Game 3.

Greinke flexed his muscles on the mound and at the plate as the Silver Slugger victor could be looking to add a National League Cy Young Award to his already full trophy case.

Kenley Jansen got four outs for his 24th save in 25 chances and 130th of his career — just hours after becoming a father for the second time. He struck out 21 batters in 17 innings in three turns for Louisville and held hitters to a. 222 average. He earned his 129th career save, tying Jeff Shaw for second all-time in franchise history.

Hernandez and Turner continued their sizzling stretches.

Kemp ignited a four-run rally in the seventh with a two-out, RBI double and Jedd Gyorko later followed with a three-run homer. Beltre went to third on a single by Mitch Moreland, who moved to second on the throw.

Lorenzen, who was selected with the 38th overall pick in the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft (Competitive Balance Round A), began this year just like in 2014 as he hurled seven shutout frames while collecting the win in his Triple-A debut versus Toledo. Kershaw has not allowed a run in five of his past six starts. There will be other foul balls for you to catch. Kershaw leads the major leagues with 205 strikeouts.

“It was close enough that you want him to try for it”, Greinke said.

“I talked to Donny and those guys and I told them ‘I’m going to come late, but I’m going to pitch this game, ‘” Jansen said.

Pitcher Zack Greinke #21 of the Los Angeles Dodgers is congratulated by third base coach Lorenzo Bundy #49 after hitting a solo home run against the Cincinnati Reds during the fifth inning at Dodger Stadium August 14, 2015, in Los Angeles, California.

-RHP Juan Nicasio (strained abdominal muscle) went on the 15-day disabled list August. 14. Peralta said he began to feel discomfort during last week’s series in Philadelphia.

Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson will have season-ending surgery to remove bone spurs in his ailing left elbow, a significant blow to his club’s playoff aspirations. RHP Carlos Frias was transferred to the 60-day DL with right lower back tightness…. As of August. 10, he was undergoing tests on his back. The total opened at 7 but has gone up to 7.5. “It is like spring training again trying to get used to a new team and catcher”.