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Thompson hitting his way into a starting job
- Updated: May 17, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Trayce Thompson left Dodger Stadium as fast as his two home runs on Monday night.
Sneaking out the clubhouse side door, Thompson wasn’t around to react to manager Dave Roberts’ comments that the rookie would be back in left field Tuesday night and was playing his way into a starting job.
“He definitely deserves a little more playing time,” Roberts said.
When Monday began, Thompson was still a reserve filling in for a resting Yasiel Puig in right field. Thompson drove in three runs and scored three runs, but the Dodgers fell short in their Freeway Series opener against the Angels, 7-6, as Kenta Maeda had his briefest Major League start, allowing four runs in four innings.
Maeda is in the rotation, even though the addition of Mike Bolsinger as a sixth starter on Wednesday is designed to give the starters — Maeda in particular — an extra day of rest.
The analytics have to this point determined Thompson to be a right-handed-hitting role player who is not as adept at hitting right-handed pitching as he is against lefties, even though his two homers Monday …
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