Philadelphia – On Sunday, on a windy, humid and dreary afternoon at the Citizens Bank Park, the dodgers watched a advance frustrating of their reach twice.
This occurred for the first time during the third round, when a regular net, a slippery ball and a muddy mound caused Tyler Glasnow’s takeoff in a six -point implosion.
This happened in the seventh, when the Dodgers returned forward with five unanswered points only to leave a sloppy defense round cost them their first defeat of the season.
Such were the failures that decided on the 8-7 victory of the Philadelphia Phillies in the rubber match of the Sunday series; Recalling a team of dodgers who won eight consecutive games to start the season they are also able to fight.
“Two uniformly equal teams, a good series,” said manager Dave Roberts. “We just didn’t do fundamental things today.”
The problems of the dodgers started almost as soon as the rain made, giving up what had been a promising start of Glasnow.
During his first two rounds, the veteran right -handed crossed his second beginning of his second season of the Dodgers, apparently resumed where he had stopped after his goalless beginnings of five rounds the previous week.
He failed in the first. He worked around a simple in the second. And when he took the mound for the third, he worked with a two -point cushion, thanks to an explosion from first round in the opposite field of Teoscar Hernández – the first of the two circuits he struck in a performance of five points produced.
At the start of the third, however, a regular net had started to descend low -covered clouds.
And in a few moments, the impact he had on Glasnow became completely clear.
First of all, Glasnow started kicking the mud of his crampons between almost all steps. Then, he had his hand several times by wiping him on his pants and tried to obtain a socket with repeated seizures of the bag of colophnes.
At one point, the hole coach Mark Prior came out for a visit alongside a coach, ensuring that Glasnow did not fight against physical limitations beyond the mound soaked in rain.
However, none of the remedies could put the launcher in a rhythm. Glasnow walked the first three strikers he faced in the Channel. And while the pressure rose, he did not find a way to recover.
“Once I had a few badly seized bullets, I think I lost my assault and my rhythm,” said Glasnow, wishing that he “could have eliminated the thought a little more on the mound and the conditions, and I just tried to get out of my head.”
“I think I just lost a feeling, then this kind of compound in a bad round,” he added. “I was thinking of other things.”
Admittedly, launching it in such conditions was a rarity in the career of Glasnow. Over the past eight years, Sunny Dodger Stadium and Tampa Bay Tropicana Field have been his original stages.
But, Glasnow noted: “There are not really excuses. I just have to go out and find a way to run next time. ”
In agreement, Roberts added: “He simply could not reset and regroup to slow down the game, and that just gone to the side.”
Indeed, after a single RBI Bloop and a wild land scoring of RBI equaled the scoring, Roberts replaced Glasnow by the left -handed lift Alex Vesia – who quickly gave up a big slam on his first throw to Nick Castellanos.
In all, Dodgers launchers have published 11 bullet goals in what was easily their worst performance of the young season. The Phillies, which obtained a 5⅔ ball of four points from the Gaucher Starter Cristopher Sánchez, gave only two.
“The weather is a factor, but each launcher who took the mound today had to face it,” said Roberts. “You must always find a way to reset and try to minimize certain damage and put the ball in play. But we just couldn’t do that today.”
Although they broke 6-2 at that time, the Dodgers did not leave quietly.
Hernández almost trained them alone at the striking distance, throwing another circuit in the opposite field of the right -of -the -hand right -of -hand post during the fourth round before lining a double RBI inside the third base bag in the fifth.
“I was trying to get a little more space between the marble and the shot box, just so that I can get more space to get lead,” said Hernández, noting that his three -sans game was helped by an adjustment that he brought to his position in preparation to cope with Sánchez.
“I left (locations) above the plate,” added Hernández, “and I was just ready for that.”
This helped prepare the ground for the dodgers shooting rally in the seventh.
Mookie Betts struck the key to this round, surrounding a double RBI in the center. Hernández struck a sacrificial fly that equaled the scoring, giving him his fifth RBI during the day (a shy of his career summit) and the 13th of the season (second largest number of the National League).
Then, Will Smith narrowly missed a circuit of two points of two points of only a few meters from the top of the wall of the right field, rather settling for a double RBI which pushed the dodgers in front of 7-6.
However, the Phillies (7-2) responded during the next half. And again, the dodgers did not go favors.
The round started when Andy Pages misunderstood a 107 -half missile from Bryce Harper in the outside field, taking a few steps in the left field gap before retiring too late and letting the ball overcome its head.
Blake Treinen then abandoned a walk and a single RBI single, before Edmundo Sosa exceeds a rebound launch at the first base of Tommy Edman who canceled a double potential late round game and allowed the take -off race to score with two withdrawals.
“We continued to compete and we have given a chance to win,” said Roberts. “But yes, we got behind the eight bullets today.”
Consequently, the Dodgers dropped a winning series against a rival competitor of World Series – not having overcome their own self -inflicted errors, as well as the typically botched time of their host.
