Dodgers giving Michael Conforto time to work out of deep slump

ATLANTA — A year ago, the Dodgers signed a veteran outfielder to a one-year contract and hit it big when Teoscar Hernandez had an All-Star season and won a Silver Slugger award as one of the National League’s most productive outfielders.
This one isn’t working out as well.
Michael Conforto signed a one-year, $17 million contract with the Dodgers last winter, stepping into Hernandez’s shoes (with Hernandez taking his new three-year, $66 million contract with him to right f