{"id":833129,"date":"2026-09-01T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833129\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T14:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T14:50:09","slug":"should-dodgers-fans-expect-more-from-the-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/833129\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Dodgers fans expect more from the offense?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cThat was when guys were throwing 92, 93 when we did that. And we were younger, yes,\u201d Betts said of the prime years of the Dodgers\u2019 stars, exaggerating how quickly velocity has jumped in MLB.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cI don\u2019t care who you are. You can be Shohei or anybody, the best player in the league. You\u2019re not hitting 100 (mph) consistently every day. Nobody is doing that. We\u2019re facing 97, 98 every day. Then the guys who are 92, 93 \u2013 there\u2019s something to it. Sometimes we hit it. Sometimes we don\u2019t. That\u2019s part of the human element of the game. But I think that part is getting missed. Y\u2019all expect us to score six or seven (runs) every day, you know what I\u2019m saying?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat was when guys were throwing 92, 93 when we did that. And we were younger, yes,\u201d Betts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":833130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[169436,160519,363,99],"class_list":["post-833129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-dodgers-links","tag-dodgers-news-notes","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/833130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}