- verifiedDodgers manager Joe Torre calls struggling Andre Ethier in for a pregame chat
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Andre Ethier is no rookie. Through the first six weeks of the opportunity ripe, what he was was the best hitter in the high-spirited.
Then came a broken pinkie and, after he returned, a prolonged contend to regain his form.
Ethier appeared back on ferret out before the All-Star break. But he is a in once again. In a serious, this-can’t-be-the-same-guy slump.
Ethier has one hit in his last 29 at-bats. He has none in his last 13.
And being an burning, emotional player, he’s not been compliant on himself about it.
He’s been so frustrated, he’s started enchanting himself out of some at-bats. So frustrated that, before Sunday’s game, boss Joe Torre held a closed-door get-together with his right fielder in have a go to get him mentally back on track.
"We chatted today," Torre said. "Even though I had a closed-door confluence, it doesn’t mean it was anything wonderful secret. He just fights himself so much that sometimes he forgets where he is.
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