The Los Angeles Dodgers' offense has had a woeful month of June and manager Don Mattingly is trying all he can to sort things out.
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According to ESPN, Mattingly and his hitting coach Mark McGwire held a team meeting prior to Thursday's game against the Texas Rangers at Dodger Stadium to discuss the team's troubled offense.
While Los Angeles won, the meeting didn't pay immediate dividends as the Dodgers scored just one run in the game, but ended up winning 1-0 on a walk-off balk.
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The team is in a deep slump and they met to discuss having better at-bats going further to try and break out of it.
While Mattingly said that a lineup shakeup was a consideration, he chose to address the players before taking that course of action.
"When we were going good, we were having quality at-bats up and down the lineup. We need to continue to make the guy fight for every out," Mattingly said via ESPN. "It's not that complicated, really, just the mentality of team baseball, getting a good pitch, making him fight for his out, don't give him any easy ones. If he beats you, then he beats you. We've just got to get back to who we are and we feel like we're a team that is going to have quality at-bats."
The Dodgers were a season-best 12 games over .500 on May 12 and averaged 5.3 runs per game, but since that date they are four games under .500 and averaging two runs per game.
Los Angeles' 1-0 victory Thursday night halted a three-game skid and it has dropped four of its last six games.
The losses and lack of offense has led to some frustration within the team, especially ace Clayton Kershaw, who said he was "frustrated" over the way he pitched on Wednesday and admitted there have been a lot of games that could have gone the other way for the club.
"These feel like games we could or should have won," Kershaw said Wednesday per ESPN.
Despite their offensive struggles, the Dodgers own the second-best record in the National League with a 38-29 mark and own a 2.5-game lead over the defending World Series champion San Francisco Giants atop the NL West.
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