Dodgers record masks problems exposed during loss | College News
When the Dodgers left Los Angeles for their last street journey before the All-Star break final summer season, they’d a 55-36 record and a 7 1/2-game lead in the National League West.
That group went on to win the World Series.
When this 12 months’s Dodgers land in Milwaukee on Sunday evening to start the final street journey before the All-Star break, their record will likely be a recreation higher and their division lead about the identical, pending the outcomes of San Diego’s recreation Sunday evening.
But if you are taking a good look under the hood, there are apparent — and worrying — variations between this 12 months and final 12 months.
Dodgers second baseman Hyeseong Kim strikes out in the seventh inning against the Houston Astros at Dodger Stadium Sunday.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
In 2024, the Dodgers had one of the best data in baseball against groups with a profitable record. After Sunday’s 5-1 loss to the Houston Astros, this 12 months’s group is just a recreation over .500 — 20-19 — against groups over .500. Those are the only variety of groups the Dodgers will face in the playoffs.
And it’s not just that they lose, it’s how they lose that’s troubling.
In dropping three in a row for the first time since mid-May, the Dodgers have been outscored 29-6 by the Astros. The sweep was Houston’s first in a three-game sequence at Dodger Stadium since 2008, when the group performed in the National League.
Manager Dave Roberts, however, pronounced himself unconcerned.
“I know we’re a good team,” he stated. “The point is to win as many games in the regular season as possible. I really don’t care who we beat, I just want to win more games than anyone.
“So right now, or even going forward, I don’t pay too much attention to that.”
Look a little deeper, though, and there are different considerations. The Dodgers’ injured listing, already as crowded as a Beyoncé live performance — it swelled to 12 gamers with Max Muncy’s addition Thursday — may get even bigger this week relying on the health of outfielder Teoscar Hernández and utility participant Tommy Edman.
Teoscar Hernández, who fouled a ball off his left foot Saturday, spent 13 days on the IL with a groin downside in May and has been troubled by that harm and a nagging hip-flexor challenge that could possibly be behind a droop that has seen him hit .188/.240/.321 over his final 30 video games. Edman didn’t play Sunday after a ball off the small toe on his proper foot over the weekend. Both gamers had MRI scans Sunday with Edman’s exhibiting a fracture of the toe.
Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani is named out by umpire Paul Clemons during the eighth inning of a loss to the Astros at Dodger Stadium Sunday.
(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)
Kiké Hernández has been battling a sore left elbow that impacts his swing for about a month. He could have to be shut down to let it heal.
“There is talk about one of those guys potentially going on the IL,” Roberts stated. “I don’t see it being Tommy but we’re still kind of trying to figure that out. And then who would we bring [up]?”
With those three unavailable, the only participant Roberts had on the bench Sunday was catcher Will Smith. And with the rotation still lacking 4 starters to harm, he gave the ball to right-hander Emmet Sheehan, who had thrown just 4 big-innings all season.
That left supervisor Dave Roberts with a short bench. And with the rotation still lacking 4 starters to harm, he gave the ball to right-hander Emmet Sheehan, who had thrown just 4 big-league innings all season.
Sheehan went one higher Sunday, yielding just a run on 5 hits over 5 innings. But his teammates did little against Houston starter Ryan Gusto (6-3), who gave up 4 hits — including a run-scoring double to Dalton Rushing — over a season-high six innings.
Will Klein got here on in favor of Sheehan to begin the sixth and after two fast outs, the Astros loaded the bases on a double, a hit batter and an infield single. Klein (1-1) then walked Zack Short on a 3-2 pitch to drive in the go-ahead run.
The Astros padded their lead with back-to-back homers from Christian Walker and Yainer Díaz to begin the seventh off reliever Tanner Scott.
Jose Altuve closed the scoring with one other solo homer off Anthony Banda in the ninth.
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