Plessis says his team dodged a bullet - but they messed it up in the last nine or 10 deliveries.Will E from LAM's blog
LOS ANGELES -- The Colorado Rockies and Los Angeles Dodgers will have two similar, yet distinct, goals for their offenses when they play Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. Cheap Mark Andrews Jersey .The Dodgers, who earned a 5-0 victory over the Rockies on Friday night, hope to extend that success beyond one day. Though Los Angeles compiled a 16-12 record with 37 home runs last month, several Dodgers experienced a miserable June offensively.Seven players hit less than .225 for the month, ranging from Adrian Gonzalezs .223 to Enrique Hernandezs .158. Among those seven are four other regulars: Chase Utley (.209), Trayce Thompson (.207), A.J. Ellis (.188) and Yasmani Grandal (.169).Throughout the lineup, weve got to have some more production, manager Dave Roberts recently told MLB.com.Hurting Los Angeles cause will be the absence of Joc Pederson, who went on the disabled list Friday after injuring his right shoulder by running into the outfield wall in Milwaukees Miller Park on Tuesday night to catch a fly ball. Pedersons 13 homers rank second on the club.However, Corey Seager remains healthy and productive. The shortstop -- who leads the Dodgers with 17 home runs, 40 RBI, 95 hits, 20 doubles and a .590 slugging percentage -- will bring a 14-game hitting streak into Saturday nights contestThe Rockies, meanwhile, hope to return to the offensive success that marked their June. Colorado batted .275 as a team during the month while amassing 61 doubles, five triples, 39 home runs and 149 RBI.Carlos Gonzalez contributed a .364 average and 29 RBI in June. Nolan Arenado and Mark Reynolds had 12-game and nine-game streaks, respectively, during the month.As a result, Colorado went 13-14 during June, the first time the team won 13 games in a month in three years. Nevertheless, the Rockies enter Saturday nights game having lost three in succession and six of their last nine.Were playing decent baseball, but were not playing good baseball, Gonzalez told the Denver Post. Even though things are more positive than in the past, its still not good enough. You cant be satisfied with being a close to .500 club.The Rockies played three of their last four games without two important components, rookie shortstop Trevor Story and veteran second baseman DJ LeMahieu. Story has a bruised right finger that he aggravated Tuesday in a 14-9 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays, while LeMahieu is battling a bruised left knee.Story leads all major league rookies with 19 home runs and 50 RBI. LeMahieu is with tied Gonzalez for fourth place among National League batters with a .326 average.Colorado manager Walt Weiss said before Friday nights game that LeMahieu could have played after performing some pregame drills, but he opted to give his All-Star second baseman an extra day of rest.Right-hander Chad Bettis (6-5, 5.84 ERA) will start for the Rockies against Dodgers left-hander Scott Kazmir (6-3, 4.67). Both pitchers will try to extend personal winning streaks at the others expense.Bettis, who has not lost since June 4, seeks his third consecutive victory, while Kazmir hopes to earn his fourth successive win. Despite not losing since May 9, Kazmir has itched beyond the sixth inning just once this season.In six career games (three starts) against the Dodgers, Bettis has no decisions and a 4.58 ERA. He has not faced Los Angeles this year.Kazmir is 1-0 with a 5.73 ERA in two all-time starts against the Rockies. 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Eoin Morgans side posted just 134-8 at in the first T20I against South Africa at Newlands, despite being positioned handsomely on 52-1 in the seventh over of their innings.The Proteas only secured victory off the final ball of the match when Reece Topley fumbled a run-out opportunity, but Hussain insists the seamers error was not the reason for Englands defeat, which followed a 3-2 loss in the preceding ODI series. Watch as Reece Topley had an easy stumping to win the first T20 for England Topley will be absolutely distraught - but it wasnt his fault England lost that game, Hussain told Sky Sports, after the tourists shipped five wickets for 29 runs in the middle overs. The damage was done a lot earlier.England are little gung-ho with the bat at the moment - in the last three or four games of white-ball cricket they have not worked out what a good score is.I think you have to give them a little bit of leeway, tell them to continue with this free spirit for a while, and hope they realise they have to be a bit smarter.[Captain] Eoin Morgan and [coach] Trevor Bayliss are very rarely critical of Englands batting as they dont want any doubts about whether what they are doing is the right thing and dont want the players to worry about the stats heading into the World T20. We hear from Eoin Morgan, Faf du Plessis and Imran Tahir after South Africas win Hussain, though, saluted Englands bowlers for the way they set about trying to defend 134, including Ben Stokes, who took 1-19 in the middle overs and Chris Jordan, who returned career-best figures of 3-23. Cheap Hayden Hurst Jersey. .The bowling was brilliant, added the former England skipper. Topley bowled well at the start, Stokes was magnificent when the game was going away from them and Jordan, who was lifted by Stokes, proved why he is in the side with his yorkers. Ben Stokes dismissed Hashim Amla during an excellent bowling performance The spinners, Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid, were excellent and the attitude in the field was outstanding, so they deserved Topley to get that stumping chance at the end.England were in a game they should never have been in - South Africa captain Faf du Plessis says his team dodged a bullet - but they messed it up in the last nine or 10 deliveries.Will England level the series in Johannesburg on Sunday? Find out from 12pm on Sky Sports 2. The game follows South Africa Women and England Womens deciding T20I, which is live at 7.55am on the same channel. 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