Numbers point to some awful luck for Dodgers at home

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LOS ANGELES — Home is where the horrors are for the Los Angeles Dodgers, as they tripped over the coffee table in their own living room once again.

The Dodgers are now 0-3 in homestand openers this season, their most recent defeat coming 4-2 to the New York Mets on Monday to kick off a nine-game run at Dodger Stadium.

All signs pointed to trouble. The Dodgers entered Monday’s game having played 13 times at home and they were pretty much baseball’s worst hitting team in their own park. They were dead last in the major leagues with a .199 home batting average, while getting on base and hitting for power was not their forte either, as they were second to last in OPS at .596.

“I don’t think it’s anything, it just is what it is,” said Trayce Thompson, who accounted for the only Dodgers runs Monday with a two-run home run in the fourth inning. “There is nothing in particular, it’s just our offense the last couple of weeks that has struggled to score some runs. We’ve had some good games where we have scored a lot, like in Tampa, but we need to start clicking like we were at the start of the season and I feel that will take care of itself.”

That was not just a young player wishing the team’s problems away. If the Dodgers feel unlucky at home, there is a good reason.

The club’s .130 batting average with runners in scoring position at home easily is the worst in baseball. It might suggest a team that presses, however; the club’s batting average with runners in scoring position on the road is .312, third best in baseball.

Yasiel Puig reacts after striking out in the eight inning of the Dodgers’ loss to the Mets on Monday. Kirby Lee/USA …

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