Pages’ Blistering Dodgers Start
Through the Dodgers’ first 13 games, Andy Pages has been on an unsustainably torrid run, slashing.449/.500/.1.257 with 4 homers and 16 RBIs — numbers that have him tearing up early‑season box scores. (x.com) If he keeps producing at even a fraction of that clip, the Dodgers’ lineup balance shifts dramatically and he becomes a matchup problem for opponents. (x.com)
Andy Pages opened 2026 hitting like a video-game create-a-player, with 22 hits, 4 home runs, and 16 runs batted in through the Dodgers’ first 13 games, and Los Angeles was 10-3 when that burst hit the box scores. (espn.com) That start looks even stranger when you rewind one year, because on April 4, 2026, Major League Baseball noted that Pages had opened the 2025 season 4-for-34, a.118 batting average, while fighting to keep his job in center field. (mlb.com) He did not stay on the edge for long. Baseball-Reference says Pages finished 2025 at.272 with 27 home runs in 624 plate appearances, which turned him from a question mark into an everyday player before his age-25 season. (baseball-reference.com) That matters because the Dodgers did not bring him into 2026 as a spare part. Major League Baseball’s Opening Day roster preview listed Pages as the starting center fielder and said the club’s depth there was thin without Tommy Edman. (mlb.com) So this April run is not just a hot week from a bench bat. It is coming from the one outfield spot where Los Angeles needed a regular, and FanGraphs logged him for 121 games in center field in 2025 before projecting him as a starter again in 2026. (fangraphs.com) The way the streak arrived also tells you something. ESPN’s game log shows multi-hit games on March 30, March 31, April 1, April 3, April 4, and April 6, which means pitchers were not beating him with one bad series and then resetting him. (espn.com) His biggest burst came in Washington, where he homered on April 3 and April 4, and Major League Baseball wrote after the second one that he had more hits than strikeouts at that point in the season. (mlb.com) That is the part opponents care about. A power hitter can survive with swing-and-miss, but a center fielder with early power and fewer strikeouts forces clubs to pitch the whole Dodgers lineup instead of circling two or three stars and hoping for softer spots later. (mlb.com 1) (mlb.com 2) Nobody should expect a.400 average to last into summer, and even ESPN’s own season line had already slipped from.500 on April 4 to.413 by April 8 after a quieter series in Toronto. (espn.com) But the Dodgers do not need April’s version of Andy Pages to stay this absurd. If the player who hit 27 home runs in 2025 is now a steadier center fielder at the plate in 2026, Los Angeles has turned one of last year’s unstable jobs into another everyday threat. (baseball-reference.com) (mlb.com)
