Los Angeles Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts is just not comfortable.
The Dodgers dropped their sequence opener to the Los Angeles Angels by a rating of 7-4 on Monday evening. Save for 2 late homers from Shohei Ohtani and Max Muncy, the Dodgers weren’t ever actually within the recreation.
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This loss, compounded with some dangerous latest losses to the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals wherein leads got up late, has the Dodgers just one recreation forward of the rival San Diego Padres within the out of the blue hotly-contested NL West.
After the loss, Roberts was significantly extra candid — and much much less optimistic than he usually is. Given the circumstances, it’s comprehensible given the Dodgers have blown a really snug division lead progressively over the previous few months.
“There positively needs to be some urgency. I don’t suppose anybody is blind to the truth that the standings are the standings. It’s gotten much more fascinating. So we’ve received to go on the market and play good baseball. I positively really feel that our guys are beginning to really feel that urgency. It’s been lengthy sufficient of middling baseball — so far as total staff wins and losses.”
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To be truthful to Los Angeles, the staff is working in a bunch of gamers that had beforehand been injured for lengthy stretches.
The beginning pitching has been removed from the issue during the last 10 days, and with the returns of Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow, one can see the define of what might be a devastating four-man group in a postseason sequence (when additionally that includes Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto).
On the identical time, there’s a visual lack of vitality. The offense can be struggling immensely proper now in clutch conditions. Freddie Freeman nonetheless appears hobbled by his ankle. Mookie Betts is within the midst of working his approach out of a career-worst droop. Will Smith is within the midst of his first droop of the season.
When then throwing within the inconsistency of Teoscar Hernandez, the lack to hit save for a couple of moments from Michael Conforto, and the final lack of manufacturing from the underside of the order, it’s not overly stunning to see Los Angeles clutching onto a slim division lead.
At this level, whether or not it’s mentioning a recent prospect or getting the likes of Tommy Edman and Hyeseong Kim totally wholesome, a spark has to come back from someplace. In any other case, the Padres are in prime place to make this an actual race for the rest of the common season.
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