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<\/p>\nMax Muncy couldn\u2019t help but throw his hands up in disbelief.<\/p>\n
In a frustrating loss for the Dodgers \u2013\u2013 that continued a confounding slump from their hot-and-cold offense \u2013\u2013 such was the defining image of the day and much of their form recently.<\/p>\n
In the bottom of the sixth inning Sunday, with the Dodgers facing a four-run deficit to the Braves, Muncy thought he had done everything right in the most pivotal moment of the game.<\/p>\n
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Dodgers pitcher Justin Wrobleski lost his first game of the season Sunday. Kirby Lee-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
He\u2019d worked a full count in a bases-loaded, two-out opportunity. He got the pitch he was looking for from Braves reliever Robert Suarez on a fastball up, but not out, of the strike zone. And even though he\u2019s cooled off recently, he barreled up a vicious swing and launched a 107 mph rocket deep to right field.<\/p>\n
For the briefest of moments, it seemed like a comeback was on.<\/p>\n
Braves right fielder Eli White, however, had other ideas.<\/p>\n
With a leaping effort that sent him crashing face-first into the wall and knocked him flat on his back along the warning track, White held on for a game-changing catch.<\/p>\n
It was as close as the Dodgers<\/a> would come in their 7-2 loss at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n And it left Muncy \u2014 who later hit a two-run homer that would prove too little, too late \u2014 stunned as he pulled up just past first base.<\/p>\n \u201cWho do I gotta pay off at this point?\u201d he thought to himself. \u201cA lot of really good swings, just nothing to really show for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Same thing goes for the entire team now, given its increasingly shaky play lately.<\/p>\n On Sunday, the Dodgers (24-16) fell behind by four runs in the second inning; the low point of a statistically anomalous 8 \u2154-inning, seven-run start from early-season breakout star Justin Wrobleski.<\/p>\n They managed just two hits yet still found a way to strand seven men on base, going 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position in another inopportunistic performance from the lineup.<\/p>\n And in the end, they were simply less clinical than a Braves team that has the most wins in the majors, dropping a marquee series rubber match<\/a> that leaves them 9-12 since April 18.<\/p>\n \u201cJust kind of as a unit, I don\u2019t think that we\u2019re one piece right now,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cIt\u2019s not from lack of effort. We\u2019ve been in this funk for quite some time. Those guys, they pitched well. But still, that\u2019s kind of where we\u2019re at.\u201d<\/p>\n The Braves\u2019 Austin Riley (27) and his teammates won the series against the Dodgers, taking two of three. Getty Images<\/p>\n What it means<\/p>\n That, at least for now, the Dodgers aren\u2019t baseball\u2019s best team<\/a>.<\/p>\n That honor probably instead belongs to the Braves (28-13), who made Wrobleski pay for his own defensive mistake in their back-breaking four-run second inning.<\/p>\n After giving up one run on three consecutive two-out singles (one of them via a bunt), Wrobleski got Sean Murphy to hit a comebacker to the mound that should\u2019ve been turned for an inning-ending double play.<\/p>\n Alas, the left-hander misfired on his throw to second, which was too high for Alex Freeland to make the turn to first. After that, Wrobleski walked No. 9 hitter Jorge Mateo to load the bases, then gave up a three-run double to Mauricio Dub\u00f3n.<\/p>\n Total frustration. Almost all of it self-inflicted.<\/p>\n \u201cJust didn\u2019t turn a double play,\u201d Wrobleski said. \u201cIf I turn a double play \u2026 wouldn\u2019t have been a bad outing.\u201d<\/p>\n It didn\u2019t help, of course, that the Dodgers failed to conjure any of their own two-out magic.<\/p>\n In the first inning, they left two runners stranded when Muncy struck out against Atlanta starter Bryce Elder to extinguish the threat. In the seventh, they watched Freeland and Shohei Ohtani (who continued his own personal struggles with a 0-for-4 day) come up empty with two aboard. And in between that, there was White\u2019s robbery of Muncy, which came after Elder issued three consecutive two-out walks in the sixth.<\/p>\n \u201cWe really haven\u2019t been able to put together innings,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cWe did in that one inning, [and then] the right fielder makes a great play.\u201d<\/p>\n The Dodgers\u2019 Shohei Ohtani went 0-for-4 Sunday against the Braves. IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n Who\u2019s hot<\/p>\n Wrobleski might not be any longer. But his strange statistical feats sure are.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_ny_post_us_news_articles_123\/47307b29bef77add9c3912fe18031b15.jpeg\"\/)
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