On the first day of the spring training, at the Camelback Farm facility decorated with permanent reminder of the 2024 world chain title, one of the Dodgers employees at the scene, then laughed while thinking about the club’s journey to a championship.
“It was not last year Scale The employee said: “At least, at least, to the end.”
In fact, in the wake of the first title for the full season of the concession in more than three decades, the turbulent path is easy.
Last season, the evaders dealt with a wave of injuries to promotion staff, contradictions in the squad, and the lowest total for the normal season of the season (98) in six years.
Fast forward six months, and this year’s evaders find themselves in a similar place.
They are now moving again to the hill and in the bull during the past few weeks. Their crime has moved from the leadership leadership in registration during the first half of the season, to the suddenly of the gossip during the past and a half.
And after a 7-4 loss To the angels on Monday, in the opening match of the highway series from three games at the Angel Stadium, they are walking at the pace of only 92 victories with a record of 68-51, adhering to what was diminished to only one match in the Western National League over San Diego Badris.
Little fun. A lot of frustration.
“Things are not going well for us now.” “We have to find a way to get out of it. No one will feel sorry for us. So it is we have to find our way out of it, and we need to do so.”
The two game was a lost issue from the beginning.
Despite obtaining an additional day of rest this week, after stirring places in rotation with Tyler Glasno for a loss on Sunday against Toronto Blue Giziz, Yoshinobo Yamamoto turned into one of his worst beginnings in the major.
He abandoned the house to Zach Nito in his first stadium at night, and after another run in the first half after the course of two (one of them in a third missing phone from the tightly domestic board Dan Esadona) and Yan Moncada’s song.
Then, in the fifth, a picnic collapsed completely. Five of the first seven fighters from the half arrived at a base (four individuals and hit the stadium). Four plate (including two) crossed one of Mike Trout). After Yamamoto walked on the fifth mixture with two Shiites, director Dave Roberts was forced on an early hook, and Yamamoto removed after 4 roles and six runs (most Yamamoto was his career in his career in 41 games).
“[The early runs] Somewhat threw me away from the rhythm, “Yamamoto, whose acquired average rose increased to 2.84 seasons, through Yorcho Sonoda translator.” As the game continues, I was trying to make some adjustments. Unfortunately, I didn’t make them. “
Dodgers collection was not much better.
During the first six roles, they failed to discover the right -wing Jose Suriano from the angels and the highest arrogance in the nineties per hour, which led to only two strikes while hitting six times.
Zach Neto, Angels Shortstop celebrates his teammates after he achieved a tour of the home in the sixth half on Monday against the evaders.
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By the time when they finally put a runner in the seventh place registration mode, the deficit grew to 7-0 in the second Neto race of the night (this time off Alexis Diaz). Until then, they came out empty, with Alex Freeland to ground in a double -end game against the former Savior Luis Garcia with the loaded bases.
The eighth -half house of Shohei Ohtani (42 of the season, and placed 100 of his career in his old home in Anheim) and Muncy (a three -range campaign inside the global in the right field) laid betting on the plane after a long time.
But it was very little time, after it was too late-to allow angels (57-62) to improve to 4-0 against the evaders this season after sweeping a chain in Chavez Raven in May.
“This was a bad loss for us,” Monsey said. “There is not really a way to overcome it.”
Dave Roberts Manager Dodgers walk outside the field after Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s withdrawal from the game in the fifth half on Monday.
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When he is associated with a crazy Sunday’s defeat to Toronto (a defeat Roberts left outwardly at his press conference after the game), the last 48 hours represented another step backward in the campaign of evaders that grow at a speed full of it.
It has passed on any momentum that was built after the team’s winning team victories against Al Blue Jays, the pioneer in the East, at the end of last week. The club has dropped to 12-19 since July 4, which is the fifth record in work in this period. That’s more, it opened the door to Padres (who were 8 games to the back recently on July 2) to approach the section before visiting to Dodger on Friday.
Roberts said: “You hate to say that yesterday’s loss has benefited tonight, and you have to give the credit for Soriano and the way in which the baseball threw.” “But, yes, I mean, you won yesterday, and you feel better about entering today. But you are now looking to lose two games in a row.
“Certainly there must be some urgency. I don’t think anyone blind about the fact that the arrangement is the arrangement. It has become more interesting. So we have to go there and play a good baseball game. I definitely feel that our men are starting to feel this urgency. It was long enough of the medium baseball – as much as the general team and losses.”
The only silver lining: The evaders overcame similar conflicts last year, as they did enough to extend to win the division and a march into an unlikely championship.
But they were hoping to avoid such headaches this year, and to install a more enjoyable defense for the title.
With less than two months staying in the season, this dream came and went.
Embolicians can still win another series of the world. But the road to this point was only a breeze.