The Los Angeles Dodgers have baseball's biggest payroll, but sit just above .500.

Don Mattingly believes the problem is a lack of cohesion.

"It may be a day here or a day there, but it hasn't felt like a true team at this point where we're all on that Tommy Lasorda end of the rope and worried about the Dodgers and, 'This is where we're going and I don't care what happens today, we're going to get there,'" Mattingly said.

"We talk about this all the time within the staff and with different guys. It's really not that hard to see that it's not happening."

They have not won or lost more than three games in a row all season.

"It seems like we're talking so much about one guy or another guy or this or that instead of us being focused on winning a game and how we can win a game and what can we do to win a game," Mattingly said. "I think when we were able to start putting things together last year, you felt a real, true team focus, just a collective group.

"It's the thing we talk about when guys start throwing all the numbers out, all these things ... One thing you can't measure is that feeling you have as a team when everybody's playing together and everybody's going in one direction."