3 trends the Colorado Rockies need to continue against the Dodgers

Nolan Arenado at the plate

Colorado All-Star third baseman Nolan Arenado smashed his seventh homer of the season in Thursday’s loss. He also struck out for the seventh time this season.

You read that correctly. Arenado has as many homers this year as strikeouts. The problem for the Rockies is that all of Arenado’s home runs have come at Coors Field and the 29-year-old Platinum Glove winner has zero extra-base hits on the road in nine games.

"“I do think guys are upset, because you’re never going to be happy losing nine out of 11,” Arenado said after Thursday’s loss. “We need to continue to fight and continue to battle. There’s not a whole lot left to say. We just have to play better baseball. “Our pitchers are pitching good and then we don’t score runs. And then today we scored runs and kind of tripped on the bump. So, collectively, we have to put it together a little bit better.”"

That goes for Arenado as well. And he’s starting to put things together in terms of connecting at the plate. His home run had an exit velocity of 105.5 mph (per Baseball Savant) and a double he hit came off the bat at 104.2 mph.

If he can keep hitting the ball hard, good things will happen for Arenado. Past years show that.