Over their last 10 games, the Dodgers defense has committed eight errors, which is unacceptable for a team with an MLB second-highest $321,287,291 payroll (to the Mets $323,099,999), and for a team with the single-best player in the game today.
Without beating this (very) dead horse, here’s what Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had to say following his team’s ugly 10-7 loss to the AL Central third-place Minnesota Twins at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday night – a game in which his team committed two errors:
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It was the Dodgers 11th loss in their last 14 games.
Although both errors resulted in runs being scored by the Twins, it was Dodgers right-handed reliever Edgardo Henriquez‘s top-of-the-seventh-inning inexcusable throwing that turned a (then) 6-5 Twins lead into a (then) 9-5 Dodgers deficit.
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The two bright spots in Tuesday’s continuing Dodgers nightmare was a 387-foot solo home run to left-center field by Dodgers right fielder Andy Pages in the bottom of the fourth which tied the game at 3-3, and a 405-foot two-run home run to left-center field by that aforementioned single-best player in the game today, Shohei Ohtani, in the bottom of the ninth making it 10-7, the eventual final score. It was Ohtani’s team-leading 36th home run of the season and his fourth consecutive game with a home run, something he had never done before in his eight-year MLB career.
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Woulda, coulda, shoulda.
Play Ball!
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