Dodgers dominate stumbling Padres and prove they’re better
Slammed Diego.
These annoying rivals of Down South escaped their weekend stay at the Dodger Stadium on Sunday with bruised spirits, bloody Egos and Manny Machado Aplatis.
Diego can.
Arriving here shortly after stolen first place, Little Brother spent the next three days returning it to a Dodger team that met the moment while the Padres withdraw.
Diego scrambled.
It was a scanning of scanning, the dodgers winning their third consecutive match of the Padres Sunday by a 5-4 margin which does not start to elucidate the difference between these two teams.
The Dodgers are now leading the West National League by two games, but it seems that 20. The two teams have 38 games to play in the season, including three next weekends in San Diego, but all kinds of real challenge by the Padres feel manufactured.
Dodgers are the deeper team. Dodgers are the most targeted team. Dodgers are the best team.
The last blow of the weekend was an eighth round and winner by car in the pavilion of the left field of Mookie Betts, but this series was not so close.
The dodgers did everything correctly and the paadres did everything stupid.
The Dodgers loaded and the paddes choked.
“I did not play as well as we would like to have it, and the series did not go as we wanted,” said the manager of Padres, Mike Shildt. “But … this team is more than in an ideal place.”
However, it would currently be second place, which, after this weekend, seems to be an appropriate place.
Meanwhile, for one of the rare stretches of this curious summer, the dodgers behaved like the tenants of first place.
“I don’t think anyone in this clubhouse doubted our abilities and how good we can be,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “Honestly, it was just good to play a very good series, Start to Terven.”
Really, from start to finish. Starters of the dodgers subject to injuries granted only three points in 17 rounds, the very described Dodger’s enclosure ended with only three points authorized in 10 rounds, and the paadres were bad enough for nothing else to count.
Friday, Machado gave a race to the Dodgers when he bothered a blow, and later, he has hastily released on the first throw of the eighth round with two withdrawals and the ties and the green light flow on the base.
On Saturday, the paadres was thrown while trying to fly three times during the first two rounds while the central field player Jackson Merrill added to madness by dropping a fly ball which cost them two points.
Then Sunday, the paadres contributed the Dodgers 10-6 but could not get out of their own path long enough to ever constitute a real threat.
During the third round, Freddy Fermín came across a single at a right center, Andy Pages the nailing him with a mile. Then, with a runner in third and two withdrawals, Machado swayed in the second step and fled to the first.
Two rounds later, Machado failed two more runners with a terrain, but his humiliation was just beginning. In the seventh, Machado launched his bat and headed for a first call. After having shyly returned to the marble in the middle of a roar of the taunts of the hostile crowd of the Dodger stadium, he expelled with a runner in second position.
Manny Machado de San Diego reacts to a strike called in the seventh round on Sunday against the Dodgers.
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Machado had not yet finished. In an appropriate way, he was the final of the match, swaying wildly in a quick ball by Alex Vesia for a withdrawal on a large point that left the old Dodger for 12 for the weekend.
“We can blink, and I am quite confident in about a week, we will speak and we will say:” Dude, Manny has eight points produced in the last five days “, we do not care so,” said Shildt, who said that his star had been stung by bad calls by the referee of the house of Maison Jeremie Rehak. “Unfortunately, some locations that are outside the striking area have called him. Which again is regrettable when they don’t try to make her strikes.
Before the series, following four consecutive discouraging losses, Roberts called on his team to show more concentration and emergency. Their final response, one day, they could easily have raised their shoulders after winning the first two games in the series, came quickly and spectacularly.
Tyler Glasnow, launching his greatest match as Dodger, withdrew three at the top of the first on the way to eight stick withdraws in five rounds.
Freddie Freeman, on the right, famous with Shohei Ohtani after hitting a three -point home run in the first round Sunday against the Padres.
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Then, at the bottom of the first against Yu Darvish des Padres, Shohei Ohtani chose, Betts A Market and Freddie Freeman exploded a home run on the field fence of the center. A later, the pages on the left to the left and the tone had been fixed.
“I think we all know who we are here in this team and how good we can be,” said Freeman. “We just have to play baseball as we did this weekend … We know who we are inside. And I have to continue.”
Roberts was as good as any of them, doing a masterful job all the weekend by manipulating his outdated enclosure, succeeding again on Sunday by listening to his most reliable lifter.
After finishing an eighth round in which the Padres equaled the match on a Jose Iglesias Grounder, Vesia was quickly said that he had been finished for the day, because Justin Wrobleski had to launch the ninth.
But Vesia had a better idea. He told Roberts that he wanted the ball if the Dodgers took the lead in the eighth, and when Betts dominated, Vesia was ready.
“So I said to Doc, I approached him and I said,” Hey, as if we are standing, I want it. “”, Recalls Vesia. “He was like” Ok, you have it. ” Indeed, Mook, Bang, Homers.
Soft indeed. The ninth without a sure blow of Vesia was symbolic of an enclosure which spent the weekend to make each large land … while the paadres missed each large land.
“It’s the DAWG, right?” said Vesia. “We always have that. It doesn’t go away. Each of us, we rely on each other. And we know in a group how good we are. ”
So too, make the paddes.
Made Diego.
