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The Dodgers made historical past when they opened the season with eight straight wins, one thing no reigning World Series champion had ever completed. But they’ve been just a shade above mediocre since then.
“I wouldn’t say [I’m] worried. It’s kind of where we’re at right now,” supervisor Dave Roberts stated.
“It’s been hard to gain traction.”
If something, the Dodgers have been spinning their wheels. Because with Wednesday’s 6-1 loss to the New York Mets, the crew’s third loss in 4 video games, the Dodgers fell to .500 over the final month and their lead in the National League West remained at just a recreation over the San Diego Padres heading into Thursday’s get-away day matinee with the Mets.
Since their historic begin, the Dodgers have had just three successful streaks of more than two video games, but three shedding streaks of more than two video games. For every three steps ahead, the crew has taken 2 ½ steps back.
And while the Dodgers entered Thursday with the fourth-best file in the league, over the final two months they’ve a decrease successful share than the Milwaukee Brewers, the third-best crew in the Central Division. The purpose why, Roberts stated, is pitching.
Or slightly the lack of pitching.
The workers ERA in May was 4.39; only 4 groups in the National League had been worse. The ERA is just a tick decrease 4 video games into June.
“Teams win consistently over stretches — as far as winning streaks — by preventing runs,” stated Roberts, whose crew had three shutouts in the first 23 video games but hasn’t had one since. “It’s hard to do that without it. So for us, it’s just getting a quality start, then have good innings out of the pen.
Mookie Betts fields a grounder in the first inning.
(Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)
“If you look at the last few weeks, we just haven’t been able to do that. And that’s kind of the reason we’ve played .500 baseball the last few weeks.”
Take Wednesday as an instance. Starter Tony Gonsolin lasted just 5 innings, giving up three runs, all in the first inning. Two got here on a Pete Alonso homer. But at least Gonsolin, who was making his seventh begin since returning from Tommy John surgical procedure, was ready to take the mound. The Dodgers have 15 different pitchers on the injured listing.
“Just threw a bad one to Pete, and he didn’t miss it,” stated Gonsolin (3-2) of the home run, Alonso’s 13th of the season and the first of two on the evening. “That was my least favorite [pitch] of the outing, for sure.”
The bullpen didn’t fare significantly better. After a pair of hitless innings from Anthony Banda and Lou Trivino, Ryan Loutos hit the first batter he confronted in the eighth, walked the next, then gave up a three-run homer to Alonso, who completed with a season-high 5 RBIs.
The Dodgers’ only run got here on Andy Pages’ solo homer, his 12th of the season, with one out in the ninth. The hit was Pages’ third of the evening — half his crew’s whole. He also had a second-inning infield single and a seventh-inning double, extending his hitting streak to a season-high 9 video games and raising his average to .290.
For the Mets, starter Griffin Canning (6-2) cruised through his six innings, dealing with just 4 batters over the minimal. The former Angel gave up three hits, walked one and struck out seven in his best outing of the season, successful for the first time in almost a month.
And that left the Dodgers struck in a rut, looking for enough traction to get themselves out.
“We know we’re not playing the way we started,” outfielder Michael Conforto stated. “We’ve been a little bit banged up. A lot of the pitchers are banged up. And even a lot of our our position players are working through some stuff. So there’s a bit of that.
“And then there’s just the lack of coming through in big spots, myself included in that. But obviously we understand who we are and what we can do when we’re clicking on all cylinders.”
Etc.
Relievers Kirby Yates (hamstring) and Michael Kopech (shoulder) both threw short simulated video games Wednesday and Roberts stated both are close to being activated. Kopech gave up 11 runs in 6.1 innings while on a rehab task in Oklahoma City. Kopech’s final big-league look got here in the fifth and deciding recreation of final fall’s World Series.
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