We’ve reached that point in the season where saying “Well, at least the Padres lost, too” following a Dodgers loss just doesn’t cut it anymore – especially with only 27 games remining in the 2025 regular season.
We heard it again following the Dodgers 3-0 shutout loss to the NL West fourth place Arizona Diamondbacks in front of a Dodger Stadium crowd of 45,701 on Friday night.
“We just really couldn’t put anything together all night long, so, for me, I think we just gotta wash this one and, you know, focus on (D-backs left-hander Edgardo) Rodríguez tomorrow,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters postgame after his team missed yet another opportunity to gain a full game on the second place Friars.
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Arizona scored all three of their runs off of 32-year-old Dodgers left-hander Blake Snell, including two on a fourth-inning two-run home run by D-backs second baseman Blaze Alexander into the very back of the Dodgers left field bullpen.
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“It is what it is, it’s what I had today, yeah, just got to be better,” Snell said, following his three-run/four-hit/5.1-inning/seventh start of the season, to go 3-3 on the season and his still-impressive 2.41 ERA.
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To his credit, the Seattle, WA native and first-round draft pick in 2011 by the Tampa Bay Rays out of Shorewood High School in Shoreline, WA did strikeout eight of the 23 Diamondback hitters he faced on his 86 pitches (56 strikes), so there’s that.
Wash away, Doc.
Play Ball!