This is WORSE Than We Thought… | LA Dodgers News

This is WORSE Than We Thought… | LA Dodgers News

This is worse than we thought. The Dodgers crisis continues. They have now lost four of the last five games. We get into exactly what is going on with the boys in blue in this edition of Dodgers Digest. Hey, this is Mike Nelson. Make sure to subscribe to the channel. Want to thank everybody who has already hit that subscribe button. Over 8,000 of you have subscribed to the Dodgers Digest. Want to thank everybody for their support and yeah, let’s get right into the story. As we know, the Dodgers uh have lost their series to the Pittsburgh Pirates, losing again um yesterday, three to nothing. A tough loss because the Dodgers, just like in game one of this uh three-game set, you get the feeling they had a chance to win um the game, right? I mean, this is getting pretty bad for the Dodgers offensively with runners of scoring position. It was an awful day. Um, leaving 10 runners on. Um, just a really rough loss. This is one of the worst losses we’ve seen of the Dodgers all season long. I mean, I think this topped um, you know, Tuesday’s loss, right? I think Tuesday’s loss was bad. All the runs given up. They scored a lot Tuesday, you know, but the pitching just wasn’t there, right? I mean, Kershaw didn’t have his best start and the bullpen came in and kind of, you know, fell apart. But Wednesday’s loss yesterday, I mean, this was really rough to watch. I mean, this was a bad loss because think about think about how this game kind of started off with for the Dodgers, right? As we know, Showy Otani feeling under the weather, unable to be be the starting pitcher last night uh for the Dodgers, right? and EMTT Shean had to had to go in and and fill in there uh for for Otani. You know, he was great. I mean, she had sure he had some rough innings. He had some rough times for sure, but you know, he did the best he could. He only gave up two runs. I mean, I think it was a pretty solid outing for for Shien, right? I mean, I think the main issue here is again the offense. The offense for the Dodgers has completely just gone cold. Um, you know, go let’s just let’s think about the first two games against the Dbacks um last week that kind of kicked off this whole losing, you know, streak for the Dodgers. I mean, they’ve lost four the last five games, the Dodgers, right? I mean, they did win Sunday to avoid the sweep, but they have now lost another series. I mean, even if they win today, they already lost a series against the Pirates, right? So, it’s going to, you know, it just it is getting bad here for the Dodgers. Um, and thinking about, you know, last night’s game, I mean, think about it. The bases loaded in the second and third inning and they don’t get any runs. I mean, the one in the second inning was completely unacceptable, right? Bags loaded with nobody out. Bags loaded with nobody out. I mean, that is I mean, you would think with the Dodgers offense at the time the Dodgers were trailing one to nothing. Um, you would think, okay, you know, this is a big moment in this game. I was watching the game yesterday and I’m thinking, yeah, I mean, this is going to be um an important moment in the ball game and they’re going to score runs. They’re going to take the lead. I mean, that’s what you expect. And for the Dodgers not to get anything at all in the second inning is just unacceptable, right? I mean, basically, when you don’t score with the bases loaded and nobody out, it’s very hard to win a Major League Baseball game. I I just think the momentum um it’s just very deflating, right? As as a baseball team, you know, these guys that are professionals, they’re, you know, they’re playing, they’re the top of baseball, right? I mean, this is the best of the best playing each other every single day. And when you have the bases loaded with major leaguers coming up and nobody out and you can’t score one run, it’s just it just looks bad. It looks really bad. and for the Dodgers to do it again in the third. It wasn’t nobody out uh in the third, but still ba bases loaded in backto back innings and they don’t score any runs. I mean that is I mean once that happened the time the Dodgers were losing Dodgers were losing two to nothing, right? Uh by the time this happened in the top of the third I mean by the time this happened you kind of just got the sense the Dodgers are not going to win this game. The fourth D had another shot double big double play. um wasn’t the base load. I believe it was second and third uh first and second. It was it was it was a while ago, right? It was yesterday, but still Dodgers had another chance there in the fourth runners of scoring position and didn’t get the job done. And after that, I mean, there wasn’t really much there for the Dodgers, right? It just really wasn’t much there. They had a little I think in the seventh inning had a bit a little bit of a run again, but never lowered the bases again after that. But the second and third inning basically were the key moments in the entire game. uh the Dodgers not able to get those runs across, not hitting with runners in scoring position is starting to plague the Dodgers, which is something we never talked about last season when the Dodgers won the World Series. We never even talked about this. I mean, we we were actually talking about the opposite. The Dodgers always find a way to score when there’s runners runners in scoring position. And this season, it’s it’s like the opposite now. The team can’t score at all. It’s getting to I mean, think about the first two games against the Dbacks of of the last series, they only scored one run, right? One run in two games. Um, and now they’ve been shut out again. Second time in less than seven days, they’ve been shut out. Uh, got got shut out in game one of that series against the Dbacks. Now they’ve gotten shut out in game two of this series. That is a bad omen for the Dodgers. They’re not able to score runs this late in the season. This is not looking good and it’s worse than we thought. I mean, I really thought the Dodgers were going to get out of their funk after game one of the se the series. I mean, they scored seven runs on Tuesday. Seven runs they put on the board, right? So, you think, okay, the Dodgers scored seven runs and I’m thinking the next day they’re going to score 10. Why not? The Pirates stink. This team is a is a is a garbage can. The Pirates are a garbage can of a franchise. uh with a 63 and 77 record. This team is going nowhere. The Pirates are going nowhere. The Dodgers, on the other hand, are likely to win their division again. Now, luckily for the Dodgers, right, I think out of all this, there is some positive news. The San Diego Padres’s got swept. Yeah, they just got swept, the San Diego Padres’s, right? Three games against Baltimore, they didn’t win a game. They lost all three games at home, too. At home. So, the Dodgers still maintain a two and a half game lead despite all of the issues they have had in the last few days. Um, and that of course is super important. MHN, like I said, had a solid day. Did the best he could. Bullpen came in, did a pretty good job as well. On offense, just was outside of Otani. It was pretty weak. I mean, there was just not much going on here for the Dodgers to say the least. Like True Blue uh LA put it, Dodgers found ways to avoid scoring and shut out loss to the Pirates, right? Not headlines you want to see, leaving 10 runners on base, 0 for seven with runners in scoring position. And like I said, they kept the two and a half game lead because the Padres’s got swept at home against the Orioles who are going to be playing the Dodgers this weekend out in Baltimore. But yeah, Dodgers big game today, right? Weather’s not looking too good in Pittsburgh, but big game because if the Dodgers lose today, it’s going to be a two-game lead. If the Dodgers win, it goes to a three-game lead. So, this is a big swing game for the Dodgers. Padres’s are off today. So, Dodgers got to find a way to take advantage, get the SE, get the lead to three. You don’t want to be at two again. get it to three and get ready for the weekend, which is going to be difficult the way Baltimore’s playing. I mean, Baltimore looks like they want to keep playing even though they’re out of the playoffs. Um, and the Dodgers are probably going to be in for a fight this weekend out and Baltimore with big crowds and a loud uh fan base. So, yeah, got to get the job done tonight, right? Dodgers really need a win today to avoid the sweep and to get the lead to three. As always, make sure to subscribe and let’s go Dodgers.

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