{"id":977098,"date":"2026-08-03T04:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/977098\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T04:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:14:21","slug":"emmet-sheehan-struggles-early-and-dodgers-are-swept-by-red-sox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/977098\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmet Sheehan struggles early and Dodgers are swept by Red Sox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Dodgers<\/a> were swept for just the second time this season after the red-hot Boston Red Sox hit four home runs, including three off embattled starter Emmet Sheehan<\/a>, to take an 8-4 win<\/a> on Sunday night at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n

Boston hit three home runs in four at-bats in the third inning, with Sheehan giving up blasts to Ceddanne Rafaela, Wilyer Abreu and Masataka Yoshida as the Dodgers suffered their second three-game sweep at home in less than a month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was bad execution,\u201d Sheehan said. \u201cI just missed my spots.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boston got to Sheehan early with a pair of RBI singles from Yoshida and Caleb Durbin in the first inning. <\/p>\n

The Dodgers (69-43) responded with three runs in the second as Eli\u00e9zer Alfonzo collected an RBI with a groundout against Red Sox starter Jake Bennett. Andy Pages then drove in two more runs on a single to right. He also hit an RBI double in the sixth for the Dodgers\u2019 final run.<\/p>\n

Sheehan (4-8), who has a 6.39 ERA over his last seven starts, gave up six hits and five runs over just 2\u2154 innings. <\/p>\n

Reliever Wyatt Mills also struggled, giving up two runs over two innings.<\/p>\n

\"Dodgers <\/p>\n

Dodgers pitcher Emmet Sheehan walks off the field during the third inning against the Red Sox on Sunday.<\/p>\n

(Eric Thayer \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know,\u201d Sheehan said about his rough stretch. \u201cIf I knew, I would fix it, but I\u2019m going to keep trying to fix it. … The only thing I can do is try to get better. There\u2019s no other option.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Dodgers manager Dave Roberts<\/a>: \u201cI just don\u2019t think [Sheehan] was sharp today at all. … They took a lot of comfortable swings [and] aggressive swings. There were some strikeouts and some swing-miss. But the end of the day, it\u2019s about limiting runs, and if you can\u2019t keep the ball in the ballpark, then it\u2019s hard to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bennett (7-4), settled in after his rough second inning and threw 5\u2154 innings as Boston won for the 27th time in 32 games after outscoring the Dodgers 20-10 in the three-game series.<\/p>\n

Jarren Duran, a Cypress native, added to Boston\u2019s lead with a 420-foot solo homer to center field off reliever Kyle Hurt in the sixth. It was Duran\u2019s first homer since July 5 against the Angels.<\/p>\n

Boston (60-51) closed out the scoring in the eighth, with Durbin scoring on a wild pitch from Wyatt Mills and Andruw Monasterio scoring on a ball that got past Alfonzo.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that if you look at it, unemotionally, they outplayed us,\u201d Roberts said about Boston\u2019s sweep. \u201cThey were hungrier. You\u2019ve got a lot of players over there that are under control. They\u2019re fighting a higher seed in the postseason. They\u2019re playing good baseball, and they outplayed us.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not an excuse. I don\u2019t feel good about it, but that\u2019s kind of what I saw.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skubal arrives \"Newly <\/p>\n

Newly acquired Dodgers pitcher Tarik Skubal greets center fielder Andy Pages in the eighth inning of an 8-4 loss to the Boston Red Sox on Sunday.<\/p>\n

(Eric Thayer \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Starting pitcher Tarik Skubal<\/a>, acquired by the Dodgers in a trade<\/a> with the Detroit Tigers on Saturday, was in the Dodgers\u2019 dugout during the game, exchanging pleasantries with his new teammates and coaches.<\/p>\n

The team also shared a video of Skubal settling in on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe got better,\u201d said Dodgers closer Edwin D\u00edaz<\/a>. \u201cThat\u2019s the only thing I can say. We got \u2026 one of the best pitchers in the league, and now we have him as a teammate. So that\u2019s a really good plus for us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Injury updates<\/p>\n

Miguel Rojas (ankle) was available off the bench despite exiting Saturday\u2019s game after fouling a ball off his foot.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt better today, able to put some weight on it,\u201d Rojas said, adding that his X-rays were negative. \u201cThe good thing is no break. So, I\u2019m fine. If Doc needs me and the situation presents itself … I need to be available every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dalton Rushing was scratched with minor right arm irritation; Alfonzo started in his place.<\/p>\n

\u201cDalton had some arm irritation when he was playing catch before the game, which is very uncommon,\u201d Roberts said, adding that X-rays were negative. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to take a chance and kind of push him anymore, so that\u2019s why I decided to scratch him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe got treated today, and my expectation is he\u2019s going to be with us on the plane, and then kind of day to day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers were swept for just the second time this season after the red-hot Boston Red Sox hit…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":977099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[20698,2731,1582,276,2442,1910,5949,89616,25268,2961,224,5337,38460,41225,3959,392154,10201,53900,22801,152301],"class_list":["post-977098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ball","tag-boston","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dodgers","tag-game","tag-home-run","tag-innings","tag-jarren-duran","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-masataka-yoshida","tag-rbi-single","tag-red-sox","tag-reliever-wyatt-mills","tag-run","tag-scoring","tag-sheehan","tag-sunday-night"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117029639788602505","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977098","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=977098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/977099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}