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CINCINNATI\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers<\/a> celebrated punching their ticket to the postseason with a champagne toast. Simple. Restrained. Leaving room for larger celebrations to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe message was, \u2018We haven\u2019t come close to playing our best baseball yet,\u2019\u201d manager Dave Roberts said after the Dodgers\u2019 4-1 win<\/a> over the Reds on Monday. \u201cAnd here we are with 12 games left, getting a ticket to the postseason. And that says a lot about this entire organization. And just to finish strong.\u201d<\/p>\n

It marked the Dodgers\u2019 14th straight playoff berth, tying a record set by the Atlanta Braves from 1991-2005.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s different than anything I\u2019ve experienced, for sure,\u201d Tarik Skubal<\/a> said of the understated clinch celebration. \u201cBut I think it just speaks to the people in this room and what they expect out of this team. That was cool. A little toast and move on. Forget it happened. We\u2019ve got more to accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most teams don ski goggles to celebrate with champagne and beer showers. The Dodgers will save the messier celebration for clinching the division. Their win over the Reds (70-80) trimmed that magic number to three.<\/p>\n

It was fitting that Skubal, the Dodgers\u2019 big trade-deadline acquisition, was on the mound for the clincher. He\u2019s progressively improved in his eight starts with the Dodgers. And on Monday, he breezed through seven shutout innings, allowing just four baserunners (three singles and a walk).<\/p>\n

\u201cI think a lot of the struggles have been me versus me,\u201d Skubal said. \u201cThinking too much out there, not competing the way I know how to compete. Just thinking too much about pitch selection at times and trying to be too fine and not challenging guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

He has grown more comfortable with the pitching coaches and his catchers, and it has brought out a better version of him. Skubal seems to be peaking at the right time \u2014 just as Roberts hoped for the team as a whole.<\/p>\n

Even after clinching the division likely this week, the Dodgers (91-59) will be playing for seeding, aiming for at least a first-round bye.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s always helpful in the sense of giving your guys a break to reset,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cBut given all the tax and where our guys are health-wise, to get that week would be huge. So we\u2019ve still got to play well to finish out the season to get to that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

The position-player group has been hit the hardest down the stretch.<\/p>\n

Designated hitter Shohei Ohtani<\/a> (right biceps and left knee), center fielder Andy Pages (left hand fracture) and backup catcher Dalton Rushing (sprained right elbow) are on the IL. First baseman Freddie Freeman<\/a> was out of the lineup Monday managing right knee soreness, and second baseman Miguel Rojas was playing through shoulder soreness after aggravating a longstanding partial tear in a labrum.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to give credit to the front office,\u201d said Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez<\/a>, who hit a two-run homer Monday. \u201cThey put together a really good team, [a] deep team that has a little bit of too much of everything. A lot of pitchers, a lot of position players here, players that can play all over the field. We\u2019re one of the oldest teams. We know [injuries] are going to happen throughout the season. So, we\u2019ve just gotta be ready, and the team has to be ready, and everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here are more specific injury updates provided by Roberts:<\/p>\n

Ohtani is set to hit off a tee Tuesday. Up until this point, he\u2019s been working out, lifting and undergoing treatment.
Pages hit softer balls Monday and will advance to hitting baseballs in the cage Tuesday. \u201cHe\u2019s trending really well,\u201d Roberts said.
Freeman is expected to return to the lineup Tuesday, but Roberts will continue to keep a close eye on him. \u201cWhere we\u2019re at in the season, an IL is not an option in the sense of \u2014 I personally don\u2019t think we have a better option,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cSo I don\u2019t think it needs to be 10 days. But could it be more than one? That\u2019s a fair question. And I\u2019ve got to talk to the training staff, Freddie, and ultimately make that decision. But I don\u2019t think IL would make sense at all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rojas did not receive a cortisone injection as he had initially predicted when he hurt his shoulder Sunday. But he said it\u2019s still a possibility as he manages pain in his shoulder. The Reds have left-handed starters scheduled for two of the four games, making Rojas\u2019 right-handed bat valuable. <\/p>\n

\u201cRight now it\u2019s front of mind, it\u2019s not great,\u201d Roberts said of the Dodgers\u2019 injury situation. \u201cBut I will say this: Once you get to October, athletes have a magical way of feeling better. It happens every single year, where there\u2019s that extra adrenaline that athletes get when you get to the postseason.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CINCINNATI\u00a0\u2014\u00a0The Dodgers celebrated punching their ticket to the postseason with a champagne toast. Simple. Restrained. Leaving room for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[5,98213,39,9448,5344,12043,2328,2304,4,2305,2303,3247,8544,1595,1317,536,1602,1479,2009,382,235],"class_list":["post-805313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-postseason","tag-baseball","tag-champagne-toast","tag-dodgers","tag-guy","tag-il","tag-lot","tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-playoffs","tag-mlb-postseason","tag-monday","tag-playoff-berth","tag-postseason","tag-record","tag-reds","tag-roberts","tag-season","tag-sense","tag-tarik-skubal","tag-team"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117272885848700974","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805313","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=805313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}