Dodgers fall to Phillies in extras, hinder shot at playoff bye
Philadelphia came to Los Angeles after having already won a place in the playoff series. With Monday 6–5 additional victory on the Dodgers, they added a division title to this collection, the one they celebrated in the center of the Dodger Stadium Infield field, then with champagne in the small clubhouse of visitors.
Dodgers focus on a cutting edge in the playoffs and their own division title. So the chances are high that the teams will meet in the playoffs, which makes this week series an excellent opportunity to do some screening.
“We are trying to gather as much information as possible,” said inner field player Miguel Rojas. “They do the same.”
This is not the main objective. Because if the dodgers close in the playoff series, they are not yet there. And they have even more work to do after Monday’s match, which ended with the JT Realmuto sacrifice of Philadelphia, the 10th round, the ghost marking Harrison Bader of the third with the winning sleeve.
The third base of the Dodgers Max Muncy reacts to the earthing in the 10th round, sealing the victory of philles on Monday at the Dodger Stadium.
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“With the place where we are, I try to win every match,” said manager Dave Roberts, whose team has resumed the deficits three times before losing. “And where he falls, that’s where he falls.”
One of the things that the two parties surely learned on Monday is that the Dodger lift enclosure is still far from ready for the playoffs. Because after Emmet Sheehan held the phillies on a blow on 5⅔ sleeves, withdrawing seven, he looked at a quartet of lifts combine to abandon four points – three on Homer Runs – During the following four.
“It’s frustrating, just from the team’s point of view,” said the third goal player Max Muncy about an enclosure of the readers who exploded 24 stops and ranks fourth in the National League with 30 defeats.
It is unlikely that it costs another trip to the Dodgers in the playoffs. Even with the defeat on Monday, these are two games in front of San Diego’s idle in the West National League with 12 games to play and their magic number to win a title of 11th division in 12 seasons is 10.
The magic number to win a joker berth is six.
The Dodgers also looked at the head of the n ° 2 in the post-season tournament, however, a spot that Philadelphia holds and the one who brings with him a Bye in the first round. This is a break, Roberts’s battered list could use, but it is the one that could now be impossible to seize: Monday’s victory pushed the advance of the phillies at 5½ games in the race for n ° 2, a deficit that the dodgers have less than two weeks to catch up.
“It is really difficult not to face these games on the section as an eliminatory match,” said Rojas. “We have been doing this for almost two weeks now. This is how we have to look at it if we want to be prepared for October. ”
These preparations were uneven on Monday. On the plate, the Dodgers retaliated three times by deficits to send the match to additional sleeves on the solo circuit of Andy Pages with one to the ninth. But they also went 0 for 8 with runners in the rating position and, after Muncy ended with the bases loaded in the 10thThey left nine men on the basis. This has erased a big match of Mookie Betts, which led three points on two sacrifice flies and a circuit equal to the seventh.
The Dodgers Mookie Betts Dodgers stop hits a home run at the end of the seventh round against the Phillies at the Dodger Stadium on Monday.
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This gave him 19 points produced in September and his 78 for the season, three best than his total from all year round. But that was not enough to overcome another fusion of the enclosures.
Sheehan followed the opening Anthony Banda at the mound, taking the ball three strikers in the match with the phillies already leading 1-0 on the Kyle Schwarber 53 LeagueRD Home Run. Sheehan left with a 3-1 advance after abandoning his only blow, a double to Otto Kemp in the seventh. But three strikers later, the Phillies had an advance of 4-3 after Weston Wilson, the Phillies N ° 9, attracted Jack Dreyer.
The dodgers have rallied to equalize the match twice after that, but each time the enclosure of the lifts returned the head, the last round arriving in the 10th On the Realmuto winning fly ball on the right Blake Treinen (1-5).
When asked if the series will show the Dodgers everything that can use if they would face the phillies next month, Muncy shook their heads.
“Personally, I don’t necessarily think of it,” said Muncy, who third in his first round since his return from the injured list a week ago, opened the Dodgers score. “We have done it in the past. We played teams just before we have them in the playoffs and generally they are full[ly] opposite.
“Right now, you’re just trying to win a match. You are not really worried about what awaits us.”
Notes
The Brock Stewart lift, the most of the dodgers acquisition on the deadline for trade, left on Monday to join Oklahoma City for a two -game rehabilitation assignment. Stewart, on the injured list since August 12 with an inflammation of the right shoulder, is expected to launch Tuesday and Thursday in triple before returning to the Dodger stadium.
“If everything is going well, we have a conversation this weekend,” said Roberts about the availability of Stewart. “We just have to make sure it is healthy. If it is right, then it could be very additive.”
For the second consecutive year, Betts was chosen as dodgers for the Roberto Clemente Award, the most prestigious price in baseball, in recognition of its large -scale charity work.
In January, the 5050 Foundation of Betts donated more than $ 30,000 in Nike clothing to the victims of forest fires in southern California. A few weeks later, in partnership with the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation (LADF), he donated more than $ 160,000 to the Crusade of Fraternity to help fight hunger and homeless in Los Angeles.
This season also, the 5050 Foundation has teamed up with the Obama Foundation at the Hyde Park Academy to donate sports equipment for young people and other supplies while funding the Mookie Betts Metro Baseball tournament in Nashville.
