{"id":141761,"date":"2025-08-13T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141761\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:03:11","slug":"walk-off-loss-to-angels-puts-dodgers-in-first-place-tie-in-nl-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141761\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk-off loss to Angels puts Dodgers in first-place tie in NL West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Dodgers finally had their storybook moment.<\/p>\n

Until the Angels<\/a> rewrote it with a walk-off ending.<\/p>\n

In the top of the ninth inning at Angel Stadium on Tuesday night, Shohei Ohtani lifted the Dodgers<\/a> to the verge of a badly needed win, breaking a tie score with the kind of moment that could have jump-started the stretch run of their season.<\/p>\n

With former Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen on the mound, and a split crowd in Anaheim rising to its feet, Ohtani blasted a go-ahead home run deep to right field. He flipped his bat. The Dodgers\u2019 dugout went wild. After so many recent blown leads and late-game meltdowns in recent weeks, the team was three outs away from finally turning the tide.<\/p>\n

Instead, the Dodgers found yet a new way to crumble.<\/p>\n

Once again, they let a winnable game go meekly by the wayside.<\/p>\n

In the bottom of the ninth, the Angels tied the score after Alex Vesia gave up a leadoff single, a walk and an eventual Nolan Schanuel sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n

In the bottom of the 10th, they sealed their fifth-straight victory over the Dodgers this season on Jo Adell\u2019s big-bouncing, walk-off RBI single.<\/p>\n

A 7-6 loss for the Dodgers<\/a>, that sent their spiraling season to a new dismal low.<\/p>\n

Now, the Dodgers have lost three in a row and 20 of 32 since July 4. Now, what was once a nine-game lead in the National League West has been completely obliterated. The Dodgers and San Diego Padres are tied atop the standings<\/a>. The Padres will come to Dodger Stadium this weekend with all the momentum, where a scuffling Dodgers club will await them.<\/p>\n

Tuesday featured many more deflating subplots for the club.<\/p>\n

Emmet Sheehan gave up five runs in a five-inning start. The team erased one early two-run deficit, only to go down two runs again. The lineup left the bases loaded with the score tied to end the top of the fifth inning. Ohtani lined into a soul-crushing triple-play with two aboard in the sixth.<\/p>\n

But nothing will sting like the final two innings \u2014 when a potential turning-point moment instead resulted in more familiar heartache.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers finally had their storybook moment. Until the Angels rewrote it with a walk-off ending. In the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2379,84406,2442,84404,42933,84402,1266,84403,5950,4712,62,84405,84401,3007,84399,11584,67,132,68,84400],"class_list":{"0":"post-141761","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-angels","9":"tag-bottom","10":"tag-dodgers","11":"tag-dodgers-club","12":"tag-fifth-inning","13":"tag-first-place-tie","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-nl-west","16":"tag-season","17":"tag-shohei-ohtani","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-storybook-moment","20":"tag-stretch-run","21":"tag-team","22":"tag-tie-score","23":"tag-tuesday-night","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-unitedstates","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-walk-off-loss"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115020182659470053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}