New York – Shohei Ohtani provided Dodgers with temporary stay on Sunday.
Before the match, he faced the strikers for the first time since he underwent a revision surgery of Tommy John in 2023, attracting a large crowd in the visitor's canoe to Citi Field while he was touching 97 mph with his quick ball and withdrew two thickness in five strikes.
Four and a half hours later, the double -direction star also dazzled with its bat, surrounding a second -hand explosion in the first round against Mets Ace and its Japanese compatriot Kodai Senga to equalize the advance of the major league with 18 home circuits in the season.
“I thought it infused us a life,” said manager Dave Roberts.
Alas, it would not last, the dodgers go instead to calm the rest of the night in a Rubber correspondence loss 3-1 In New York Mets.
They were sentenced by poor defense early, the dishes marking first three points with the help of two Dodgers errors. They were frustrated by opportunities wasted later, hitting three double games for a second consecutive match.
He sent the team to a serial loss in the revenge match of the weekend of the national league championship series from last year. He also spent them at 3-6 in their last nine games and 9-11 in their last 20.
Really, outside their start to the 8-0 season, they were a little better than a team of 0,500, ranging from 24-21 since then (even with another sequence of victories of seven matches mixed with this section).
And although they are still in first place in the NL West, and dragging only the phillies of Philadelphia, Detroit Tigers and New York Yankees for the best record in baseball, they do not play like a team near this distinction.
“Tonight was one of these nights that we just gave them additional withdrawals, and they took advantage of them,” said Roberts.
“It was quite frustrating,” said the third basic player Max Mancy. “Continue to shoot us in the foot.”
There was no self-inflicted injury greater than that of the Muncy suffered at the bottom of the first.
After two withdrawals from Landon Knack's stick to start the Channel, Juan Soto struck a grounher sharp in third place that Muncy jostled on a high hop, recovering too late to throw Soto at the start.
It was Murcy's eighth error of the season, the second largest number among the third players in the MLB, and first of all not to come on a throw.
“This is one of those things where I'm really not really good right now,” said Muncy. “Do not avoid it, but everything I can do is continue to appear every day, work there, try to understand things, try to improve. This is what I do.”
On Sunday, however, there was nothing that Muncy could not do.
A throw later, Pete Alonso struck a curve ball hanging from Tapon for a two -point circuit. The dishes (32-21) would not waste the head of the rest of the path.
“We were trying to make it fall a little, and we obviously left it,” said Knack. “I would say that he is a little more aggressive with the runners, so could take advantage of it.”
While the basics rounded up, Muncy looked stoically in the distance.
“It gives you the impression that the game is on your shoulders. This is what I feel, at least,” said Muncy. “It is a piece that must be made, and I should have done it. It's just frustrating.”
There have been many other moments, however, which left the dodgers (32-21) shake their heads.
After Ohtani's head Homer, their attack was lucky to add more. Mookie Betts has reached an error. Freddie Freeman moved him third with a double. When Will Smith followed with a flying ball on the central field, it was deep enough for Betts to break for the house. At least that's how it seemed.
Instead, the Central Field Player in Mets Tyrone Taylor delivered a shot to the plate. And after Betts was initially governed safely on a slide from the feet, a challenge of the dishes overthrew the call. A chance to build an early breathing room for the heel had disappeared. And despite repeated opportunities to recover later, the Dodgers failed to scratch something through the plate.
In the fourth round, Freeman struck a simple head… only for Smith to end in double game quickly.
Later in the Channel, Teoscar Hernández doubled and Muncy walked to put two on board … Only for Andy Pages to hit a deep fly ball which died on the warning track on the left.
In the fifth, the Dodgers have generated their best chance against Senga … Only for the right -hander to induce a group with two withdrawals from Smith which ended the threat.
In the sixth, Muncy pulled a walk from a single outing … Only for the pages to get up in another double game, the 42nd for the dodgers this season (fifth more in the majors).
“I think the story is that we just have to play clean baseball, have a good offensive approach, because we are going to see good sheds,” said Roberts, with the dodgers in the middle of a section of 29 games against nothing other than teams containing qualifying series.
“For example, Shohei did not obtain a fifth in the stick [tonight]Because they made games and they got some double games and things like that. Everything that matters. So this thing is really highlighted when you play against good ball clubs. “”
The dishes marked their only other race against Knack – which only delivered the 14th start of the six -round season for the club – in the third. With one on and a outing, Mark comes to hit hard ground in the middle that Betts arrived impressively from the stop stop. But then, Betts missed on a reversal to the second goal, sailing on the ball on the head of his teammate Tommy Edman to put runners in the corners. The choice of a SOTO defender in the next At-Bat has marked a race.
The 3-1 deficit turned out to be too much for the Dodgers to overcome – ending a day that had started with so much optimism around Ohtani's bidirectional talents with a failure of a frustrating performance and loss of series in the Queens.
