The Dodgers lost to the Milwaukee Brewers by a score of 8-7 in front of a sold out Dodger Stadium crowd of 53,540 on Saturday evening, but despite some awful pitching by 25-year-old Dodgers starting right-hander Emmet Sheehan, it shouldn’t have happen.
Oh sure, the Brewers put up eight runs on 13 hits (seven allowed by Sheehan), but the Dodgers scored seven runs on 10 hits in the two-hour and 51-minute contest. And while it has long been accepted that you win as a team and lost as a team, it’s hard to overlook a horrible bottom-of-the-third-inning strikeout by 24-year-old Dodgers center fielder Andy Pages as a big reason for that loss.
With no outs and the game tied 4-4 in the bottom of the third and popular Dodgers right fielder Teoscar Hernández on third base, Pages took a called third strike that should have landed halfway up the Left Field Pavilion. Instead, the La Habana, Cuba native watched Brewers right-hander Freddy Peralta‘s very hittable 96-mph four-seam fastball slide past him for strike three, which was followed by a 6-4 ground out by Dodgers left fielder Michael Conforto and a fly out to left by Dodgers third baseman Tommy Edman, stranding Teo at third.
“We had our chances,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts told reporters after his team’s disappointing loss. “Andy takes a called third strike that got a good part of the plate that he has a chance to do something in that at-bat,” added the Dodgers skipper.
(SportsNet LA)
With Saturday’s loss, the Dodgers have now lost eight of their last 10 games and saw their lead in the NL West drop to 4.5 games over the second-place San Diego Padres and 6.0 games over the third-place San Francisco Giants, both of whom (thankfully) also lost on Saturday, so there’s that.
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