Dodgers’ record is unbeaten ends while trying to play better baseball

Filadelphia – Los Angeles Dodgers were finally captured. Captured by an early deficit they could not overcome. Captured in the midst of a historic beginning that arrived with the team that did not shoot all the cylinders. Captured by the wind, which knocked down two balls from Moscow who could leave the baseball field. Captured on the basepaths, since they were three times when he finally fell 3-2 to the Philadelphia Phillies on Friday evening.

Thus went the unbeaten start of the Dodgers, which ended in front of a Rauca crowd at Citizens Bank Park with a replay revision that decides that the pinch of the runner Chris Taylor was caught trying to steal the second base while it represented the bond race.

NO Charge of World Series in the history of baseball He had ever won his first eight games to start the season as Dodgers had done, even if Los Angeles did not play his best baseball. Six of these victories have requested the overcoming of a deficit. They kept it alive despite giving five runs not acquired two nights ago. They increased the level of difficulty and still won before the Phillies became the first team to take an advantage and keep it.

“We left some games in advance,” said the manager of Dodgers Dave Roberts. “But that’s something we have to improve.”

This time, the difference had only 24 outs to work on the dish instead of 27 because of their fubs on the bases.

“When you give a good team and shorten the game, then it’s hard to win,” said Roberts.

The margins are thinner against a team like Phillies. So it mattered when, in the first inning, the appetizer of Dodgers Yoshinobu Yamamoto went to watch Trea Turner at the second base. Turner broke through the third. While the third baseman Miguel Rojas went to cover the bag, Yamamoto threw behind him.

“It was very deplorable,” said Yamamoto through the interpreter Yoshihiro sona. “It was a very fundamental game.”

Turner has marked the solitary and not acquired race, over six master’s inning for Yamamoto.

Yoshinbu Yamamoto has allowed only one race not acquired against the Phillies. (Bill Streicher / Imagn Images)

This was one more than Jesús Luzardo would allow the Phillies on Friday. The left -handed, acquired in the low season by Miami Marlins, gave the Phillies a powerful rotation like almost any team of this sport, including Dodgers. He touched 99 per hour on his fast ball in the first inning and kept a range of Dodgers without Freddie Freeman mostly with a wide range of cursors, sworders and changes.

And when the Dodgers generated possibility, they did not have a push from the elements or they helped themselves.

Shohei Ohtani remained standing in the batter box and admired her job in the middle of nervous silence. He had silenced a quick ball and knew it. Until he did it. Since the beginning of the 2023 season, 25 balls have been affected at least 110 mph from the club with a 32 -degree launch angle, since that of Ohtani was in the third inning on Friday evening. Everyone except one left the baseball field.

Ohtani’s ball was crushed by the wind and in the hundredth of the midfielder of Phillies Brandon Marsh, a few meters in front of the warning track.

“Even if there is a strong wind blowing that way, 100 % of the time should be a humerus,” said Tommy Edman.

An inning later, Teoscar Hernández tangled a cursor in the night. Instead of going some rows in the seats, it fell harmlessly in the Max Kepler glove on the warning track on the left.

“I thought the Shohei’s ball, on every normal night, would be a humerus,” said Roberts. “I thought the Teo’s ball, every normal night, would be a humerus.”

Instead, Hernández’s single advantage in the second Inning would be the only basic runner of the Dodgers until the pages of Andy have taken a sixth walk. When Luzardo returned to look at the pages at the base with two outs, the pages instead reduced to the second, were unleashed after hitting the brakes in the middle of the bag. The basic problems of the 24 -year -old pages emerged as a worrying theme for most of his short time in the majors and this time he cost the Dodgers the possibility that Mookie Betts hit with the runners.

“This, go and stop – you just can’t,” said Roberts. “We have to eliminate those outs on the bases.”

Two inning later, the Dodgers seemed unleashed something familiar against the Phillies Bullpens. Rojas has put a single on the ground. Ohtani scored one of her with two outs. When Ohtani tried to scroll the second, Jt Realmuto knocked him down with an almost perfect shot. Once again, Betts was on the plate.

“The Ohtani surprised me a little,” said Realmuto, “because Mookie was hitting.”

After a two -pitched Homer of Edman led the Dodgers to a race against the closest Phillies Jordan Romano, Taylor made his luck. While Max Muncy greeted the three strike on a high fast ball, Realmuto got up from his crime and wandered Taylor.

Both Ohtani and Taylor went alone, said Roberts. Discard the free outs and give the free base runners is “something we have to clean up”, he added. It is not a concern, but something that the manager would like to fool on the bud.

The Dodgers (8-1) have just played their best baseball. So it applies to the last baseball team to record a loss.

(Top photo of Shohei Ohtani who reacts after being tagged to the second base: Emilee Chinn / Getty Images)