Your Boss Angeles Dodgers

No it wasn’t they were leading at that point. True the offense sucked but poor defense didn’t help any. Defense matters.

Pretty efficient outing by Syndergaard. If he can pitch like that all season he’ll be a huge asset.

I noticed watching the game that the Dodgers play this year with a little bit more chip on there shoulders like people have count them out this year and picked the Padres to win it all. There kind of like the Padres last year like okay we have something to prove the doubters wrong. It could be the players this year have a little more grit then the last year with a team full of long time dodgers. Nice to see that back in there eyes way better then in the playoffs last year. When they just thought they would win.

If you’re comparing Rojas to Taylor I take Rojas 7 days a week. If you’re comparing Taylor to Outman it’s a coin toss because I’m not sold on Outman yet. He still has the potential to strike out as much as Taylor does. I want as many batters in the lineup up that make contact as possible. It use to be embarrassing to strike out.

On Betts play at home, what if the hitter ran to second and Smith threw to second and the runner called out at home comes back to touch the plate and on the appeal he is called safe? Should Smith have made sure of the out by tagging the runner at home instead of throwing to second?

That was a bad throw by Rojas and Freeman saved him. Shit happens with everyone on defense.

Bad management by Roberts in a close game. Graterol was off today from the first pitch , yet Doc let him in to face the lefty. Should have had Vesia up and warming when everyone saw Graterol had nothing today.

I said it before the season this season we will find out a lot about Roberts.

Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Let’s say we play 500 ball with a 500 team,what does that make us?

I know that it’s silly to say. Just like Boss Dodgers, If I said

LOSS DODGERS,, Silly, yes

Heywards bat is sloooooooow.

Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hard to take a split with .500 team especially at home That’s baseball though,I’ll look at the bright side and Syndergaard‘s performance was nice.

Too bad MOOKIE’S great play went for nada

Ya don’t score, ya don’t win. Nuff said.

I will not let this be LA DodgerTalks Cultural Decline into idiocy!

The idiots are not running the asylum.

Tough to outscore a team 20-5 in a four game series and only get a split. The Dodgers have been mediocre to poor in one run and extra inning games in the last two years. In 2022 they were 16-15 in one run games, and 24-24 in 2021. By comparison, the Giants and Padres were 31-17 in one run games in 2021 and 2022. And this season starts out 0-2 in one run games. In the last two seasons, the Dodgers are 12-22 in extra inning games. In my opinion, the refusal to use small ball contributes to this poor performance in close games. The Dbacks used the running game and small ball to score their runs today. And the winning hit was a two out bunt hit.

Dodgers wasted two fantastic starts by May and Thor. The starting pitching has been absolutely dominant, but Vesia and Graterol had terrible outings that deservedly tagged them with losses. I still don’t trust Roberts in close games, and his choices in the ninth inning were strange. He managed to bring Barnes, Taylor and Heyward to the plate in the bottom of the ninth. Between them all, they have zero hits this year! Specifically, hitting Barnes for Outman was suspect. I assume Muncy was not available today. But the players were much more of a problem than the coaching, and you aren’t going to win many games when you only score 1 run in a game. It is only 4 games in a long season, and the Dodgers future looks bright. But it seems like they have already given away two games this season.

Another all or nothing offense. It’s the Dodger way. Hopefully this October it’s an all! And somehow it’s all Robert’s fault.

B2B stolen bases leading to the Snakes scoring. Is Carroll that fast or is this Life with Thor?

Mookie’s got some chops at second

It’s maddening how a guy as obviously talented as Graterol can give up four hits in a single inning. Especially so when his teammates manage to get only four hits for the entire game.

And they all came from the top of the lineup–one by Mookie, two by Freddie and Will’s HR.

As for the good news, there was Thor giving the Dodgers their fourth excellent start, and also another outfield assist for Mookie–after he looked sharp playing 2B. Also nice to see Outman’s stolen base (more, please!) and Vargas, pinch-hitting, getting another walk… even though that last pitch might have caught the corner for a strike.

The bad: Taylor gets a start and strikes out three times in four ABs. JDM struck out twice, sometimes chasing pitches well out of the zone. Trayce struck out twice but also hit one to the wall–HR distance in some friendlier parks.

I don’t know why Muncy didn’t play. My guess is that Roberts just wanted to give Taylor a start in hopes he’ll break out of year-plus slump. But there’s a big dropoff from Max to Taylor.

I agree that Roberts should have let Outman bat in the 9th. I get why he had Barnes pinch-hit for Belli in the playoffs, but Outman deserves more trust. Roberts himself has praised Outman’s “heartbeat” and steady approach to challenges. One run down, Outman is the bigger HR threat and has more speed.

Maybe Outman would have struck out–but that’s what Barnes did. All considered, I’d rather see Outman go down swinging than Barnes.

I’ve thought for years in the analytics age that teams take the lefty righty thing way to far so with that I thought it was a boneheaded move bringing in a cold sitting on bench all game career Mendoza line hitter to pinch hit for a player who hasn’t proven can’t hit lefties and had been seeing pitches all game. Even if Barnes hit a game tying homer wouldn’t have changed my view of it but have a hard time blaming Roberts being none of us really know who aren’t privy how much of that is dictated from upstairs