Chicago – Tuesday evening, embodied the large part of this young season for Dodgers.
The momentum was built, then would disappear. Just when they finally seemed to get into the high speed, they rather backwards backwards, on the other hand.
Despite the direction of three points during the first round, then three entering the eighth again, the dodgers could not hold in a loss of 11-10 wild for the Cubs of Chicago, being ahead – or, at the very least, exceeded – one night, a wind exploding Wrigley Field in a band box.
Tanner Scott blew a stop with two ninth outings when Miguel Amaya equaled the scoring on a Home Run solo in the center. The Dodgers could not answer at the top of the 10th, and Ian Happ left with a simple RBI on the first step of the lower half of the English Channel.
“We were one there,” said manager Dave Roberts in a dark post-match clubhouse. “We just couldn’t put them away.”
The challenge now: to make sure that the most discouraging defeat of the season does not pass something in something extended.
Certainly, the Dodgers are still 16-8. They still have the third best record in the majors. They still have very few long -term legitimate concerns in their quest for a second consecutive world series.
But for the moment, a team of supreme talents does not click on all cylinders.
Even one night, the Dodgers have marked a seasonal season, their global game remained far from the upper form.
During the first round, Tommy Edman opened the scoring with a three -point home run – it is only for the Dustin launcher can immediately give a point of five points in the lower half of the frame.
The Dodgers responded with solo circuits of Andy Pages and Will Smith in the second and sixth rounds, respectively-but I looked can also put these points, when he launched a quick ball at Pete Crow-Armstrong in the fifth that the Harvard-Westlake product launched for an explosion of two sleeves.
“Nothing was very well today,” said May, who was the victim of the two errors on the plate and an inability to locate his signing sweeper for the strikes.
“He just couldn’t put the guys put away when he had the chance to do so,” added Roberts.
In the last rounds, the same thing applied to his team.
The Dodgers briefly fell in front with a five -point rally in the seventh. An execution marked on an error. Two came home on the double of Go-Ahead by Freddie Freeman. Two others were tackled on a sacrificial fly by Edman and a double out of Smith’s wall.
“I have played a lot of crazy games in Wrigley over the years, especially when the wind blows like today,” said Edman. “It is sort of wait when you enter.”
But what the Dodgers did not expect, after having turned an advance of 10-7 to their generally solid enclosure was to face the way they did along the section.
Kyle Tucker took Alex Vesia to the bottom of the eighth for a two -point circuit. Scott underwent his second backup of 10 opportunities by leaving a quick ball in the middle to Amaya in the ninth, watching the breath transport just far enough to find the outdoor basket of Wrigley Field in the center.
“The place that has just missed,” said Scott. “The middle of the middle is not very good in the big leagues.”
In the 10th, the dodgers moved their automatic runner to the third but no further.
Despite their release of seasonal score, they finished the match only three for 14 with runners in the score position.
“Some guys spent big nights, which was great,” said Roberts. “But there are still things in situations (where) I didn’t think we had good at-bats.”
However, Roberts A Conté: “We have always achieved 10 points. We have to win this match. ”
