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Dodgers' Jimmy Rollins tries to shift his thinking at the plate

/ STAFF WRITER

The Dodgers' Jimmy Rollins is facing more defensive shifts now than he did during more productive seasons as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies.

LOS ANGELES – It was an intervention of sorts. At least, it had that effect.

With his batting average hovering around .200 two months into the season, Jimmy Rollins started to see something he’d never seen before. When the switch-hitting Rollins batted from the left side, teams were starting to play defensive shifts against him. His offensive game had become so impotent and predictable that opposing teams loaded the right side of the field, confident that a ground ball or pop up would find a glove.