A night imperfection in all the facets of their game, the Dodgers found a way to stay perfect anyway.
These two early launch errors of Max Muncy? Did not matter.
The ball left in place of Andy Pages at the center? No sweat.
Blake Snell, the centerpiece of the half-milliard of dollars, without having his best things? A concern for another time.
And the five -point deficit at the start that they were faced as a result of all this? It turned out that it would not last.
Instead, the Dodgers set up a moving return which pushed their record at 8-0, the best start by any title champion in the history of the MLB. They took a match in which they seemed to be intended to fight and found a way to beat the brave of Atlanta 6-5 on Wednesday.
And, during one night, fans aligned themselves outside the hours of the Dodger Stadium earlier to receive his Bobblehead, Shohei Ohtani left with a Home Run winning at the bottom of the ninth.
“I was a little stunned,” said manager Dave Roberts. “I was stunned by the way we played (early). I did not recognize this club in the first two rounds. And then we just stunned, we found a way to win this match. We did not make the company by winning this game. But on credit for our guys, we continued to fight. ”
Indeed, if there is a common theme at the spotless start of dodgers, it is their ability to fight through each early test. They went around the world and the return, only two weeks withdrawn from their seasonal opening trip to Tokyo. They blocked the distractions of the World Series ceremonies which accompanied their first Homestand.
They played less strength, missing Freddie Freeman for a third consecutive match (and fifth in the general classification) while he continues to rest the surgically repaired ankle that he reacted with a shift in his shower last weekend.
And despite their flawless record, they did not even start clicking on all the cylinders.
“We haven’t really played Super baseball,” said Roberts. “And tonight, obviously, it was the worst match we played.”
It was at the beginning, at least, with a bad defense and a trembling pitching gift, the wrapping of the brave without victory an advance of 5-0.
With two withdrawals in the first, Muncy aligned a Bryan de la Cruz floor ball behind the third base, but made a hit in front of Kiké Hernández at the start, allowing an unsurserved race to score. In the next At-Bat, Nick Allen has nailed another with a single RBI, the end of the round only when Cruz was thrown trying to score as a trail.
The ball found Muncy in the second round when he was able to go to the stroke of Stuart Fairchild near the mound but again missed on a jet. These errors were aggravated when the pages dropped the ball trying to take a race in Deep Center, the brave plunging another unheeded race. Matt Olson worsened things with a double of two points later in the Channel.
The launcher of the Dodgers Ben Casparius famous after having removed the third basic player from Atlanta Braves, Austin Riley, to repress a sixth round rally at the Dodger stadium on Wednesday evening.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
“You play the difficult game by playing the game, and you fail the easy part, which is launching it,” said Muncy, who slapped his disgust glove after his second round error. “It’s pretty frustrating for me, because I felt like me, personally, I got blake from the rhythm. And that’s never what you want as a defender.”
Snell has not helped his cause much, fighting to locate his land while showing visible frustration with the referee of marble Tony Randazzo. In a departure from four rounds, Snell traveled four strikers, granted five strokes and – despite each of his five not won points – took a step back compared to his beginnings of five heats and two rounds last week.
“I just have to attack the area and launch strikes,” said Snell. “If I can do that, I will be good.”
The biggest point to remember by Snell, however, was to know how the Dodgers – who had already collected five victories compared to the head – managed to make their way in the game.
“The belief is great here,” said Snell. “It’s fun when everyone knows that we are going to find a way.”
The turnaround started in the second, when Michael Comforto attracted a walk in advance in front of the fourth circuit of Tommy Edman. Comforto went deep for his first time as Dodger two rounds later, reducing the deficit to 5-3.
The Dodgers had not finished making mistakes. Pages was doubled in the third row on a line of Mookie Betts in the fifth, canceling an opportunity for runners on the horns without withdrawal. Comforto was thrown by trying to spend the first in the third on a single to Fairchild on the right a round later.
But then Muncy obtained his redemption, coming to the plate with the second and third runs with two withdrawals in the eighth.
Muncy had used a newly infiltrated “torpedo” bat that morning, testing the innovative mode, the most oily part of the barrel is close to the handful, which has become the craze of the world of baseball in recent days.
But after having established withdrawals in his first three strikers, the veteran hitter returned to his normal wood in the eighth.
“There was no second guess,” said Muncy, feeling like the Torpille model had put his slightly out of plan. “It was, I take my bat up there, and I’m going to do something with my bat.”
In a count of 1 and 2 against the Braves, closer to Raisel Iglesias – which had been summoned for a safeguard of five withdrawals from the Atlanta manager, Brian Snitker, trying to take a scrap of six games from his team – Muncy led a high change to the right for a double of two points.
Just like that, the score was 5-5.
“The way the match started for him on the defensive side, then his first three strikers, to continue fighting and not to quit smoking, was huge,” said Roberts. “This game continues to present opportunities, and you have to be ready for them. And tonight it was.”
Ohtani, who got into the habit of delivering in great moments, including Bobblehead Nights such as Wednesday.
Thus, when the superstar slugger launched a change of first pitch compared to Iglesias on the wall at Straightaway Center, his teammates broke out for a wild celebration – but moved away from the canoe which did not feel surprised.
“When he came and it’s his Bobblehead evening – everyone knew it,” said Snell laughing.
Fans receive a Bobblehead Shohei Ohtani while entering the Dodger Stadium before the match between the Dodgers and Atlanta Braves on Wednesday.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
“It is just a question of knowing where he had struck it,” resolved Edman with astonishment.
As it is his style, Ohtani has minimized his contributions while speaking to journalists. He said that he “was just looking for a very good pitch to strike” and that he was ready to walk if he hadn’t understood it.
He credited the victory more to the double of a Muncy round earlier as well as to an argument of money who combined for five goalless (including two recruit images Ben Casparius and Jack Dreyer).
“There is a very good atmosphere within the team,” said Ohtani via the interpreter Will Ireton. “So I think it allows us to come back to these games to win.”
This is the atmosphere throughout the Dodgers clubhouse. They always feel that they have room to improve in almost all departments. But no one has yet found a plan for having beat their list of $ 400 million.
“It looked dark early … But our guys persevered,” said Roberts when asked if his team could be practically unbeatable. “I think every night we are unbeatable, and we will see how it works.”
