Dodgers Games: Giants Beat Dodgers 6-2, Skid Reaches Four
dodgers games took another hit Tuesday, as the Giants beat the Dodgers 6-2 at Dodger Stadium and pushed Los Angeles to a four-game skid. The loss left the Dodgers at 24-18, still behind the Padres in the division standings at 24-17.
Andrew Friedman On The Lull
Andrew Friedman said before the game that the club is in a lull and framed the stretch as part of baseball’s swings. “What we know for a fact is every guy is going to have ups and downs,” he said.
He added, “And this is some of the randomness of baseball. Sometimes those happen spread out, which allows your offense to thrive, and sometimes they happen concurrently, and that’s when you go into some real offensive lulls. And I feel like that’s more random than anything.”
Jung Hoo Lee Ends The First-Inning Rally
The Dodgers still created an early opening. They loaded the bases in the first inning with one out, then Will Smith lifted a sacrifice fly to bring in one run.
Jung Hoo Lee shut that down with an over-the-shoulder catch in right field, and Dave Roberts called it “a really game-changing play.” The Dodgers did not turn that first-inning chance into more, and Roberts said, “In total, you know, when you don’t get a whole lot of opportunities and you don’t cash in on the couple that you do get, you don’t score a lot of runs.”
Dodgers Fall Short Of A Split
The loss also locked in the series result at Dodger Stadium. A split was the best the Dodgers could do after Tuesday, but they can no longer win the four-game series.
That leaves them with one win in five games against the Giants this season, while the latest defeat adds to a longer trend: the Dodgers have lost each of their last four games by four runs or more. That streak is tied for the franchise’s longest such run in a single season in the modern era since 1901, and MLB.com research says the team had not done it since 1936, when the club was in Brooklyn.
Dave Roberts said after the game, “I think that we bring out the best in every team,” and added, “... They haven’t had a good season thus far, but against us you can see the emotion that they’re playing with. We have to find a way to match that intensity. We do.” For the Dodgers, the immediate reality is simple: the slide has reached four, the division chase stays tight, and the damage in this series is already on the board.
