The 111-win regular season is now a distant memory, and they’re in the fight of their lives against the Padres with an elimination game on Saturday night.
The noise, a dramatic change from the Dodger fans’ usual takeover at Petco, might have helped the Padres. But the basic element of this Dodgers difficulty – dare we say it, this potential Dodgers collapse – is an inability to cash in scoring opportunities, and an inability to solve San Diego’s bullpen.
“Two weeks left in the season we were talking amongst ourselves and saying if we get into this bullpen, we have a lot of faith in these guys,” Padres outfielder Trent Grisham said. “They’re all starting to throw the ball well, Hader is starting to turn it around, Luis had been doing it all year, and then Suarez started to really show out.
Most significantly, though, it’s the potential waste of 111 victories, a dynamic regular season that essentially goes up in smoke if the Dodgers don’t dig themselves out of this hole the next two nights.
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