Dodgers right fielder Yasiel Puig was sidelined all of September with a right hamstring strain. (Sarah Reingewirtz/Staff photographer)

This is Part 38 of a series in which every member of the 2015 Dodgers has his season juxtaposed with an episode of the greatest sitcom of all-time. Don’t take it too seriously.

Yasiel Puig, RF

Key stats: ..255/.322/.436, 11 HR, 38 RBIs, 3 SB in 6 attempts in 79 games

Seinfeld episode: “The Parking Garage.” (Season 3, Episode 6)

Key quote: “It was easy the last time.”

Yasiel Puig missed a few more games than he played for the Dodgers in 2015. When he played, the sum total of his statistics made him a slightly above average hitter. His salary was slightly above league average. He dropped more bats than he flipped. If this was a straightforward recap of Puig’s 2015 season, it would be a fairly boring read.

But ah, context.

Can you think of a baseball player whose every move requires more contexts than Puig? His culture, age, relationships with teammates, baseball potential, run-ins with the law, fan reaction, market value — all these things bear mention from time to time with Puig, sometimes with good reason. Insert each at your own discretion as we proceed.

Puig began the 2015 season as the Dodgers’ right fielder. Two days before the season began, manager Don Mattingly told Andre Ethier that he would be the team’s fourth outfielder; Ethier would end up playing almost as many games (142) as Puig (79) and Carl Crawford (69) combined.

Puig appeared in 11 of the Dodgers’ first 16 games and hit fairly well during that early stretch. By April 24, he had a .845 OPS and was striking out less frequently than he had to that point in his career. Then the hamstring thing happened.

Puig had never been on the disabled list before a strained left hamstring landed him on the 15-day DL on April 26. He would miss 38 games. When he returned, Puig had his share of ups and downs, as baseball players tend to do. After 20 days on the comeback trail Mattingly dropped Puig to to fourth, then fifth, then sixth in the batting order. It was there, at the bottom of the batting order, that Puig re-discovered his stroke. From August 11 to August 27, Puig went on a tear that saw him slug .600 and drive in nine runs in 12 games — kicked off by a 5-0 Dodgers win over the Nationals in which Puig drove in all five runs.

Then the other hamstring thing happened.

Puig had a 10-game hitting streak when he re-aggravated a right hamstring strain Aug. 27 in Cincinnati. No one knew it at the time, but the injury would effectively end his season.

Oh sure, there were enough diversions to keep Puig’s name a topic of interviews and reactions in the coming months. The Dodgers took a road trip to Phoenix in September. Puig was invited to be with the team for the three games while he was rehabbing a half-hour away in Glendale, but he stayed away for some reason. As late as September 30, Puig hadn’t been cleared to run at full speed and was all but ruled out for the postseason. The next day, he was running at full speed — which a tongue-in-cheek Mattingly called a “miracle.”

Puig played games 161 and 162 of the regular season but was a non-factor in the National League Division Series against the Mets. He went 0-for-4 in Game 4 of the series — his only appearance in the starting lineup — and 0-for-6 total.

In the wee hours of the morning after Thanksgiving, Puig made headlines for his role in a bar fight in Miami. No charges were filed, though Major League Baseball is still investigating the incident under its domestic violence policy.

The general trajectory of “The Parking Garage” is similar to Puig’s season: All four characters end up wandering, wandering, wandering around a parking garage looking for the car that brought them there:

(Spoiler alert) they find the car at the end of the episode. Like Puig, it doesn’t start.