Letters to Sports: Dodgers cant hit, cant pitch,

Lately, the only thing the Dodgers excel at is losing games they should win. When they hit they can’t pitch and when they pitch they can’t hit. They can’t move runners over or get a clutch hit and, of course, the relievers still can’t throw strikes. It all adds up to a good year … for the Padres.

Alan Abajian
Alta Loma

To paraphrase the old adage, you can put lipstick on the Dodgers — for example, so and so is coming back … or recovering.

But any team that has played as inconsistently as they have at the plate, in the field, and on the pitcher’s mound is very unlikely to survive in multiple playoff short series. It’s virtually certain that type of team will get tripped up along the way. Especially one predicted to win 120 games.

Kip Dellinger
Santa Monica

Mr. Plaschke is saying that the Dodgers’ failure to trade for bullpen help is the problem with the bullpen. Maybe he should point the finger at the guy (mis)using them.

John Vitz
Manhattan Beach

Re: Bill Plaschke’s column on Dodgers at commerce deadline — The Dodgers didn’t have an “inability” to improve their bullpen, it was an “unwillingness.” With the expertise in their system, the Dodgers may have simply put together a bundle to get Mason Miller, David Bednar or comparable. Impossible to know if there was any significant undisclosed commerce discuss to get better bullpen help, but it sure appears just like the Dodgers merely determined not to do it. It also appears prefer it could possibly be a big mistake.

John Merryman
Redondo Beach

Truth be told, the story was about the unbelievable Angel comeback/sweep of the Dodgers. Once again the columnist focuses on the Dodgers’ accidents instead of the Angels’ mind-blowing backside of the ninth rally. Will the “Summer Bummer” continue when the Padres invade Dodger Stadium?

Patrick Kelley
Los Angeles

Who ARE these people and what have they finished with our Dodgers?

Sarah Tamor
Santa Monica