LOS ANGELES — At one point during the Dodgers’ desultory last homestand in April, Dave Roberts kvetched that he couldn’t remember the most recent time the Dodgers had played a complete game.
His memory is getting refreshed on a regular basis these days.
Max Muncy homered three times and Shohei Ohtani and Andy Pages added one each to back Tyler Glasnow’s latest strong start as the Dodgers routed the Atlanta Braves 11-2 Saturday night.
The win was the Dodgers’ second in a row over the Braves this weekend and their 10th in their past 12 games overall.
“I do remember what they look like now. Our guys have done a good job of showing me what a complete baseball game looks like,” Roberts said Saturday. “Looking back at that last homestand, it just wasn’t good. It wasn’t good enough, and our guys realize that, and we won that last game, and from there, we just took off through the road trip and carried over into this homestand.
“It’s fun to watch. It really is. You see the energy on the bench. You see the intensity on the field, and then in the batter’s box you see the focus. So then to put all that with a lot of talent, it’s winning baseball.”
During this dozen-game run, the Dodgers have looked like the complete team Roberts (and the front office) thought they had.
They have outscored their opponents 78-24. Eight times in the 12 games their pitching has allowed two runs or fewer. Six times the offense has put up eight or more runs. Four times they reached double digits.
“We went through a little rough stretch for a homestand there, but it’s baseball,” Muncy said after the first three-homer game of his career. “It’s just one of those things where you have ups and downs. We’re going to have some downs later in the year also. But you’ve just got to find a way to ride it out and know this is who we are as a team, for the most part.”
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