Barely a week after setting a franchise record with 111 regular-season victories, the Dodgers see their season end in an NLDS loss to the Padres.
three games to one while sending the Dodgers to the darkest corners of their legacy.
Based on difference in regular-season winning percentage, this was the second-biggest upset in postseason history, and the biggest in 116 years. In other words, chants of “Beat L.A” and the sight of thousands of flapping yellow towels will live in Dodger lore forever.San Diego Padres players celebrate after defeating the Dodgers in Game 4 of the NLDS to advance to the National League Championship Series.
This is worse than Clayton Kershaw’s meltdowns against the St. Louis Cardinals. This is worse than Corey Seager failing to cover third base against the New York Mets. This time, even with the greatest run differential in baseball in 83 years, the Dodgers couldn’t even win two playoff games.Mild-mannered Padres manager Bob Melvin lost a bit of his cool with his players in September. Since then, the Padres have been a better team.
The starry Dodgers batting order led by the Big Three of Mookie Betts, Trea Turner and Freddie Freeman? The Padres pitching spun them into the ground. As with every recent postseason failure, Dodger fans will now play the blame game, and once again it will all fall on the shoulders of manager Dave Roberts, who made several questionable pitching moves in Game 4, from removing Tyler Anderson too soon, to inserting Alex Vesia to face Cronenworth after reliever Yency Almonte had already thrown one pitch, to ignoring his best reliever Evan Phillips until it was too late.
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