Dave Roberts criticizes Shohei Ohtani after

The Toronto Blue Jays did every little thing potential to hand the Dodgers a victory Sunday.

Their pitchers gave up 10 hits, including two home runs. They walked 13, a season-high for the Dodgers, twice loading the bases on free passes in the ultimate two innings. At the plate, Toronto struck out 14 instances.

The Dodgers, however, refused to settle for the reward, giving up an eighth-inning lead in a 5-4 loss that dropped their lead over the San Diego Padres in the National League West to two video games. The Padres trailed by six video games less than three weeks in the past.

“This is frustrating because I just felt there’s no way we should lose this game today,” Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts said. “We had them on the ropes numerous times. And for us not to win is so frustrating.”

How irritating? The Dodgers had been one for 10 with runners in scoring place. They left a season-high 16 males on base — six in the last two innings.

Every Dodgers starter reached base at least once. Yet they still misplaced.

Afterward, third baseman Max Muncy insisted the black cloud had a silver lining, even if no one else may see it.

“We were creating opportunities. So, you know, we were doing the first part of it,” he said. “We just weren’t cashing in today. The positive you take out of it is we found a way to create a lot of opportunities.

“You just have to finish the job.”

That goes double for the Dodger relievers. Starter Tyler Glasnow was good, hanging out eight and permitting just two runs over 5⅔ innings, turning a 3-2 lead over to a bullpen that had to get 10 outs. Once again they couldn’t do it, with Blake Treinen and Alex Vesia giving up three solo home runs in the span of six batters.

“You give good hitters pitches right down the middle, they’re going to do damage,” said Treinen, who got here on in the eighth with a one-run lead and left 5 batters later trailing after back-to-back home runs by Vladimir Guerrero Jr. and Addison Barger.

“Sometimes we get away with making bad locations turn into outs. They made me pay for it and it cost us a game.”

He’s not the only one who had to pay. Because after Freddie Freeman walked with the bases loaded for the second time to tie the sport in the eighth, Vesia got here on to start the ninth with the rating even again. Ernie Clement unevened it on Vesia’s first pitch, driving an 85-mph slider over the wall in left subject to put Toronto forward. It was the sixty fifth homer Dodgers relievers have allowed this season; only two bullpens in the majors have given up more.

But the Blue Jays’ generosity knew no end, so Toronto tried to give the win back when reliever Jeff Hoffman loaded the bases with one out for Shohei Ohtani.

But after fouling off two powerful full-count pitches from Mason Fluharty, a left-hander with a 5.15 earned-run average and Toronto’s eighth pitcher of the day, Ohtani waved at a sweeper exterior the zone to strike out.

“The last thing I was thinking was he was going to strike out. … We’ve got to come up with one right there,” Roberts said. “Chasing the ball down below is something we can’t have happen.”

Mookie Betts adopted by grounding into a pressure out to end the sport.

Three innings earlier Ohtani, who had two hits, including his forty first homer of the season to run his hitting streak to a season-best 9 video games, was thrown out attempting to steal third with two outs and Freeman at the plate, ending another Dodger risk.

“That was his decision,” Roberts said. “Not a good baseball play.”

Now the Dodgers head to Anaheim for a three-game sequence with the Angels before returning home to face the Padres, possible with the division lead at stake.

The Dodgers have been faltering since July 1, going 15-18. San Diego has been on fire, going 21-13 over the same span. Among NL groups, only the Milwaukee Brewers have been better.

While San Diego has the most saves (39) and the best bullpen ERA in baseball (3.04), Dodgers relievers rank twenty first (4.24).

And while the Padres obtained better at last month’s commerce deadline, making 5 trades that netted them reliever Mason Miller and left-hander JP Sears from Oakland, first baseman/outfielder Ryan O’Hearn and left fielder Ramón Laureano from the Orioles and catcher Freddy Fermin from the Royals, the Dodgers barely tinkered around the sides. Their major acquisition, reliever Brock Stewart, has given up six hits and two runs in 3⅔ innings.

The Padres went all in. The Dodgers didn’t.

Talk about irritating.