The Los Angeles Dodgers had yet another amazing regular season in 2026, finishing the year with a stellar 100-62 record.
That doesn’t mean they were perfect, though. In this two-part series, Dodgers Nation will be taking a look at every month of the Dodgers’ season and assigning a grade based on their performance over the course of the given month.
Dodgers Nation will take several factors into account to judge the grade of each month, including but not limited to expectations, injuries and overall record.
Without further ado, here are our grades for the Dodgers throughout the first half of the season.
How Did The Dodgers Perform in Every Month of the Regular Season?
March: A-
The Dodgers only played five regular-season games in March, so take the A- grade with a grain of salt.
They started well, winning four of their first five games, but the team left a little bit to be desired in terms of results. They swept the Diamondbacks to kick off the year, putting together a strong offensive display on Opening Day after falling behind at the start of the game, but lost their first game following the Diamondbacks series.
LA only scored two runs on nine hits in the first game of their series against the Cleveland Guardians, but bounced back in the final game of the month in a dominant 4-1 performance.
All in all, a 4-1 start to the season is good enough to just break into the A- range.
April: B
The Dodgers began April by losing their series against the Cleveland Guardians, but they didn’t lose another series until they visited the San Francisco Giants towards the end of the month.
Altogether, the Dodgers went 16-10 in the month of April, but lost a couple of players to injury the process. Mookie Betts strained an oblique injury early on in the month, and Edwin Diaz and Ben Casparius both suffered long-term injuries by the end of April.
Despite their hardships, though, the Dodgers looked pretty good throughout the majority of the month.
Things took a turn for the worse during their series against the Giants, though, as the offense only posted four runs against their opponents during a three-game series. They woke up in the following series against the Chicago Cubs, but immediately slipped back into a slump against the Miami Marlins, who stole a series at home to close the month.
The Dodgers still had a decent month despite their offseason shortcomings, though, hence the B grade.
May: A-
Unfortunately for the Dodgers, their struggles followed them into their first series in May. They lost the first two games of their series against the St. Louis Cardinals on the road, but salvaged the series with a 4-1 win in the final game of the set.
They immediately traveled to Houston afterwards and won their series against the Astros, but they lost Tyler Glasnow to a back injury in the process—an injury which kept him out for the majority of the season.
After their series against the Astros, though, the Dodgers’ offense continued to struggle. They beat the Atlanta Braves in a series opener at Dodger Stadium, but went on to lose four consecutive games afterwards, allowing 29 runs during that span.
They managed to split a series with the Giants after losing the first two games, though, and carried the momentum from the end of that series throughout the rest of the month with Betts returning to the lineup. The Dodgers finished May by sweeping the Los Angeles Angels, beating the San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers, then seeing off the Colorado Rockies before beating the Philadelphia Phillies in two of three.
Despite their early struggles, the Dodgers finished May with a better record than April, going 18-10, and posted the second-best wRC+ in the league that month (115). For that reason, they grade slightly above their performance last month.
June: A
The Dodgers’ record improved once again in June, as they won 18 games and lost just nine over the course of the month, though it wasn’t especially pretty.
They split a series to kick off the month against the Diamondbacks, and lost at least one game in each of their following three series until they swept a red-hot Tampa Bay Rays from June 15-17. They lost their next series against the Orioles, but won seven of their final eight games of the month despite having lost Will Smith to injury early in the month.
The Dodgers’ offense improved from May to June, as they had a 118 wRC+ that month—ranking second in the National League—with Tommy Edman’s return from offseason ankle surgery playing a big part in that surge.
Seeing as how they had their best record over the span of a month in June as well as one of baseball’s top offenses, they get an A for their performance.
July 1-12: C-
The Dodgers entered July with the best record in baseball, four wins better than the Brewers, and looked to finish the first half strong.
Unfortunately, that’s not how things panned out.
They kicked off the month with a 7-1 loss to the lowly Athletics, but immediately won three of four against the San Diego Padres back home afterwards. They went on to win a series against the Rockies, though their offense didn’t look its best against their divisional foe.
The lowest point of the month came in their following series, though, when they suffered their first sweep of the season at the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Dodgers’ offense ranked in the bottom third of the league for the portion of July which preceded the All-Star break, and their results for that period showed it.
They went 5-6 prior to the break in July, putting together one of their worst stretches of baseball in the first half.
First-Half Grade: A-
The Dodgers had a fantastic first half of the season despite their struggles down the stretch—though we still have to take those into account when calculating their final score.
They still had the best record and offense in baseball despite their struggles, though, so giving them anything less than something that started with A wouldn’t be fair—especially with some of the more prominent injuries they had.
That being said, the late struggles and inconsistent offensive stretches knock down their score just a bit.
Dodgers Nation will be back later this week to grade the second half of the year. In the meantime, do you agree with this grade? What would you change?
