SAN DIEGO — With the Commerce Deadline within the rearview mirror, the Dodgers can now give attention to the gamers they’ll have on the roster the remainder of the way in which. Following the bevy of acquisitions made by the membership this week, Los Angeles believes it has precisely what it must make a deep postseason run.
However whereas the additions had been useful and can all impression the roster at completely different factors over the following two months, the inconsistencies of the bullpen are nonetheless on the forefront of nearly each Dodgers loss over the previous couple of weeks.
It was no completely different on Tuesday, because the Dodgers’ reduction corps couldn’t shut out the Padres, blowing an early five-run lead in a 6-5 loss to San Diego in 10 innings at Petco Park. It marked the third time in 13 video games that the Dodgers did not retain a lead of 5 runs or extra.
“This can be a recreation that hurts,” mentioned Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts. “You have to win this recreation tonight.”
After getting noticed a five-run lead by a shorthanded offense within the first inning, it regarded as if the Dodgers had been going to cruise to a different win towards the Padres. Tyler Glasnow regarded sharp in his second begin off the injured checklist, permitting three runs and hanging out eight over seven innings.
Bullpen utilization has been a problem for the Dodgers as a consequence of brief outings from their starters. However if you get seven innings out of your ace, you’re anticipated to win the sport. And but, they’re struggling to seek out the solutions within the backend of the bullpen.
“We obtained a prolonged outing tonight, which we felt good about,” Roberts mentioned. “Hopefully, we gave a handful of men one other off-day to get them extra recent. Exterior of that, they’ve obtained to go in and make pitches. I have a look at who’s out there and count on them to go on the market and do their jobs. That’s form of the place I’m at proper now.”
Anthony Banda was tasked with the eighth inning and he continued to impress, retiring the highest of the San Diego lineup so as. Within the ninth and with the center of the Padres’ lineup due up, Roberts turned to Blake Treinen, who has been one of many Dodgers’ most dependable relievers this season.
Treinen, nevertheless, was ambushed by Manny Machado, who smashed a first-pitch sinker into the left-field seats to chop the deficit to a run together with his second homer of the sport. Two batters later, Jackson Merrill took Treinen deep to tie it, capping off one other blown save from a Los Angeles reliever.
“I believe our bullpen has been top-of-the-line, if not the perfect, over the past 5 years since I’ve been right here,” Treinen mentioned. “There’s clearly going to be some powerful stretches. Lots of that falls on me, and two of the previous couple of that you simply talked about. I don’t know if we actually assume a lot about it. It’s simply the day when it occurs, it’s fairly irritating.”
Issues didn’t get a lot better in further innings, as Alex Vesia noticed a lower in velocity for a second consecutive outing within the tenth. Vesia has arguably been the Dodgers’ greatest reliever this season, however has been used typically these days. The left-hander threw three consecutive sliders to begin his outing, whereas his four-seamer had a lower of 1.4 mph from its season common.
Vesia’s command additionally took a success on Tuesday, with pinch-hitter Donovan Solano finally successful the final battle, lining a walk-off single down the left-field line to ship Padres followers house completely satisfied.
“They made some additions, they’re feeling good, they’re taking part in nice baseball,” Roberts mentioned of the Padres, who had been additionally energetic on the commerce market. “In all probability, the month of July, they’ve performed nearly as good of baseball as anyone in the entire Main Leagues. They’re definitely feeling good about themselves, completely. We have got [Dylan] Stop tomorrow, so we’ve obtained our palms full once more tomorrow.”
Getting Brusdar Graterol and Ryan Brasier again sooner or later in August ought to assist the Dodgers’ bullpen. It’s nonetheless a unit that has plenty of expertise. However proper now, the membership is seeking to put collectively a whole recreation because it awaits reinforcements.
The Dodgers consider they introduced in an excellent haul through trades over the past 48 hours, and that they’re effectively positioned to roll with this group the remainder of the way in which — however issues began off on a bitter observe in San Diego.
“I take delight in being profitable for my teammates,” Treinen mentioned. “They gave us an opportunity to go on the market, they put their religion in me to go put up a zero and I didn’t get the job achieved. So I’m gonna should be higher than what I’ve been.”
