Dodgers bullpen fatigue leads to extra-innings | College News

MIAMI — Most of Tuesday’s recreation went according to plan for the Dodgers.

Tony Gonsolin produced a stable five-inning begin in his second begin back from Tommy John surgical procedure, giving up just two runs.

Shohei Ohtani posted one other monster stat line at LoanDepot Park, hitting a tying home run in the sixth and a tying double in the seventh in what he calls “one of my favorite stadiums” to play in.

Late in a 5-4 loss to the Miami Marlins, however, one of the Dodgers’ few early-season issues turned into a manifestly expensive drawback — the sport ending with journeyman reliever JP Feyereisen on the mound, giving up a walk-off single to Jesús Sanchez in the underside of the tenth inning.

The Dodgers’ bullpen, fairly merely, has been overworked through the first month-plus of the 12 months. And in a recreation that got here down to the ultimate few innings, the toll of that pressure grew to become evident.

Entering the underside of the sixth, the Dodgers had been main 3-2, having turned an early one-run deficit into a one-run lead after Ohtani and Freddie Freeman hit home runs in the highest half of the inning. With Gonsolin performed after 82 pitches supervisor Dave Roberts turned to his bullpen.

But it was not a high-leverage arm that got here trotting in.

With all of his most trusted relievers having already pitched twice this journey — including appearances from high right-handers Evan Phillips and Kirby Yates the evening before — Roberts as a substitute summoned minor league offseason signing Luis García, seemingly hoping to steal an inning with the lower-leverage right-hander.

Granted, García had been first rate this 12 months, getting into the sport with a 3.78 ERA in his thirteenth MLB season. But he had already made 17 appearances in their first 35 contests. And on Tuesday, the Marlins wasted little time leaping all over him.

Designated hitter Agustin Ramírez led off with a double. Two batters later, Connor Norby did the identical, hitting a line drive to left discipline that just evaded a leaping effort from Michael Conforto. That tied the rating. Matt Mervis’ single in the next at-bat gave Miami a 4-3 lead.

The Dodgers (24-12) didn’t path for long, Ohtani tying the rating with a double that scored speedy Hyeseong Kim from first.

But after Alex Vesia, Anthony Banda and Tanner Scott posted zeroes to get the sport to extras, Roberts was compelled into one other less-than-appealing pitching resolution in the underside of the tenth.

Claimed off waivers final week from the Arizona Diamondbacks, Feyereisen (a participant the Dodgers once traded for before later releasing) got here into the sport — Roberts once again bypassing a higher option, such as $13-million offseason signing Yates, out of apparent workload issues.

Moments later, their defeat had been sealed, with Sánchez blasting his game-winning, bases-loaded single through a five-man Dodgers infield.