ATLANTA – Looking back at his first handful of days with the Los Angeles Dodgers, Scott Podsednik said he wasn’t himself.
He said he wanted to contribute right away and open some eyes. He wanted to justify the team’s decision to trade for him.
So, of course, he didn’t hit.
“I just stepped back and looked at myself in the mirror and said, ‘Go out there and try to have fun,'” Podsednik said. “I finally found a way to approach it.”
Saturday night, Podsednik hit safely in his 11th consecutive game, getting three singles and scoring what turned out to be the deciding run in the Dodgers’ 2-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field.