Adam Dunn Has An Odd Sense Of Timing

Adam Dunn has the reputation of a home run hitter, which usually leads to a lot of RBIs. He's getting the home runs this year, but the RBIs from those long balls? Not so much. Adam Kilgore took a look at Dunn's statistics, which at this point, are a bit of an anomaly.

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Of his team-leading 15 home runs, 11 have come with no one on base.

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That's a bad thing. But what Adam Dunn lacks in timing (hitting his home runs when there are people on base), he makes up for with, ummmm, timing.

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But his homers have come at crucial times - 11 of them have also either tied the score or put the Nationals ahead.

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Hm. So he hits a lot of solo shots, but he hits them at crucial times in the game. I'm not sure how I feel about that. Lets go with frustratingly amused. Yeah, that sounds about right.