Shohei Ohtani<\/a> and yet another bullpen meltdown.<\/p>\nThe Blue Jay offense was aggressive, battling, nine of their 11 hits were singles and they did all this without veteran star George Springer.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see these guys grinding and using the whole field,\u201d said Roberts.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers offense, meanwhile, could barely hold the bat on their shoulders, scoring only two runs despite having runners on base in seven of nine innings, and they\u2019ve now scored three runs in the last 20 innings.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe could do at least the bare minimum to be able to put up some runs,\u201d said Ohtani through an interpreter in what sounded like a rare critique of his teammates.<\/p>\n
Before the game, Jays manager John Schneider correctly predicted his team was far from finished, saying, \u201cIt\u2019s the World Series. Everyone is feeling good. They like these situations. We have responded well in these situations. In terms of second wind, no, man. It\u2019s just wake up, get ready to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was a powerful proclamation, and the Dodgers?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe just didn\u2019t have an answer,\u201d said Roberts.<\/p>\n
Their lack of response was epitomized by the sorriest ninth-inning rally in recent memory, Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez leads off with a walk and Max Muncy doubles and nobody else can get the ball out of the infield until there was two outs \u2014 and Alex Call flied out to left to end the game.<\/p>\n
While the series is very much up for grabs, Tuesday\u2019s loss makes one thing very sickly certain. If the Dodgers do become baseball\u2019s first back-to-back champions in 25 years, they will have to celebrate that title in Toronto. After Wednesday\u2019s Game 5 here, that\u2019s where the series travels for Game 6 and 7, if necessary.<\/p>\n
For the 62nd consecutive season, the Dodgers will not be able to share that championship party in front of their home fans.<\/p>\n
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That stinks. But first things first. Starting with recently shaky Blake Snell on Wednesday, and continuing with Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tyler Glasnow in Toronto, the Dodgers will have to figure out how to get at least seven innings out of the starters and stay the hell away from the damned awful bullpen.<\/p>\n
It was the bullpen that unsurprisingly gave this game away after Ohtani left in the seventh inning trailing only 2-1 but with runners on second and third.<\/p>\n
Enter Anthony Banda, who yielded an RBI single to Andres Gim\u00e9nez and an RBI grounder to Ty France. An intentional walk to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. later, Blake Treinen took the mound and gave up an RBI single to Bo Bichette and another RBI single to Addison Barger.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers trudged out of that inning trailing 6-1 and the game was essentially over.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot great,\u201d said Muncy, who has three hits in 17 at-bats in the series. \u201cWe\u2019re missing on the big opportunities, myself included. I\u2019m one of the big culprits of that. I\u2019ve had some opportunities and I haven\u2019t cashed in. We gotta get the big hit.\u201d<\/p>\n
And to think, the day started so brightly.<\/p>\n
Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez leaned into the stands on the second pitch to catch a foul ball. Ohtani was walked in the first inning to mark his 10th consecutive time reaching base. The video board showed Prince Henry and Meghan, both wearing Dodger caps, and the crowd booed, and it was all such fun.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers even struck first, in the second, when Muncy walked, Tommy Edman singled to right and Hern\u00e1ndez scored Muncy with a long fly ball to right. <\/p>\n
The lead, however, didn\u2019t last long, the Jays quickly rebounding in the third with a leadoff single by Nathan Lukes followed by a two-run home run by \u2014 who else? \u2014 Vladimir Guerrero Jr.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers seemed to finally unnerve the Jays in the sixth when singles by Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez with one out shoved starter Shane Bieber to the dugout. But facing lefty reliever Mason Fluharty, the Dodgers failed spectacularly, with Muncy quickly flying out to center and Edman striking out.<\/p>\n
After that Guerrero home run, Ohtani then proceeded to retire 11 of the next 12 hitters before giving up the single to Daulton Varsho and the double to Ernie Clement that led to his exit in the seventh.<\/p>\n
Ohtani said he wasn\u2019t tired from reaching base nine times the previous night. But his 0-for-3 night at the plate combined with his slow wither in 80-degree heat would suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, I don\u2019t know,\u201d said Roberts. \u201cBut, yeah, he gave us a good effort. He really did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Roberts eventually had no choice but to go to his maligned bullpen. But because they had all worked the night before, they were especially toothless.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, last night was taxing on both clubs\u2019 pens, but it\u2019s kind of an all-hands-on-deck situation,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n
If it wasn\u2019t before Tuesday, it is now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hangover 4. Have they made that movie yet? No? Well, they just did, at Dodger Stadium on Tuesday…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":340051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[22896,1582,276,167592,2442,1910,167591,3688,6539,2961,224,5337,5948,8327,6475,8328,41225,3355,15613,154127],"class_list":["post-340050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-blue-jays","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dodger-hangover","tag-dodgers","tag-game","tag-giant-headache","tag-inning","tag-kike-hernandez","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-loss","tag-max-muncy","tag-night","tag-ohtani","tag-rbi-single","tag-victory","tag-wednesday","tag-world-series-game"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340050","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=340050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}