{"id":16784,"date":"2025-05-10T20:25:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/16784\/"},"modified":"2025-05-10T20:25:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:25:12","slug":"fans-call-for-torey-lovullos-firing-after-latest-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/16784\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans Call For Torey Lovullo’s Firing After Latest Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exciting Friday night game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks, who debuted their new City Connect uniforms, was squandered by a leaky Arizona bullpen in a latest low point.<\/p>\n

A two-homer performance by Ketel Marte and a grand slam by Lourdes Gurriel Jr became immaterial after Shohei Ohtani demolished a go-ahead three-run home run to cap off a six run ninth inning for Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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With the general complaint around D’backs manager Torey Lovullo being his often controversial bullpen decisions, calls intensified for the ninth-year manager’s firing.<\/p>\n

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Arizona Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo takes notes during the third inning against the New York Mets at Chase Field May 5, 2025.Michael Chow &sol; The Republic via USA TODAY Network and Imagn Images<\/p>\n

The latest loss reminded some Diamondbacks fans of the team’s collapse late into last season, where they missed out on the 2024 playoffs by a tiebreaker despite leading the MLB in runs scored.<\/p>\n

The blame for Friday’s loss fell on the shoulders of reliever Kevin Ginkel, who allowed hits to the first four Dodgers batters he faced, then was removed after picking up a strikeout and hit-by-pitch.<\/p>\n

What immediately followed was Ohtani’s mammoth home run off Ryan Thompson to break the tie and ultimately bury the Diamondbacks. The moonshot was Ohtani’s MLB-leading 49th home run since 2021 hit 113+ mph, well ahead of the Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton (39) and Aaron Judge (36).<\/p>\n

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Ginkel was credited with five of the six runs, with the only run charged to Thompson being Ohtani himself. Ginkel’s ERA skyrocketed to 15.43 after the inning.<\/p>\n

Fans, well, were not happy with Torey. O<\/p>\n

Fans seemed to be more angry that the Snakes put together a very complete performance that was ultimately squandered by a managerial decision. After all, an 11-run outburst should more often than not lead to a win.<\/p>\n

The D’backs fell to 20-19 while the Dodgers improved to 30-16 against Arizona since 2022.<\/p>\n

Related: Struggling Diamondbacks Receive Encouraging News on Former Top Prospect<\/a><\/p>\n

Related: Dodgers Provide Concerning News on Tyler Glasnow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exciting Friday night game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks, who debuted their new City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16785,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2404],"tags":[106,146,22,4314,5,38,310,729,1677,774,57,1447,4,61,655,468,638,142],"class_list":{"0":"post-16784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arizona-diamondbacks","8":"tag-aaron-judge","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-arizona-diamondbacks","11":"tag-arizonadiamondbacks","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-diamondbacks","14":"tag-giancarlo-stanton","15":"tag-ketel-marte","16":"tag-kevin-ginkel","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","19":"tag-lourdes-gurriel-jr","20":"tag-mlb","21":"tag-new-york-mets","22":"tag-ryan-thompson","23":"tag-shohei-ohtani","24":"tag-torey-lovullo","25":"tag-yankees"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114485416785868396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16784\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}