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LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts called out his struggling club after a 6-2 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday<\/a> cost them a significant tiebreaker in the race for home-field advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI say this because it’s just been four or five, six weeks of below average production in our offense. It’s just the truth, and I think we have just haven’t played clean baseball for quite some time, and that speaks to the defense,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

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