The despair of a Dodger Toasted stadium was clearly said on Sunday in the fourth round with a sunburn against the new Yankees.
With judge Mighty Yankee Aaron blowing and blowing on the plate, an insistent song alone emerged from a fan of dodger hiding in the shadows.
“Ko-be! Ko-be! Ko-be!”
Sorry. Beautiful test. But that day, the dodgers lacked all the evidence of a Mamba mentality.
After two inspiring victories in this three-game force test on the weekend against their Twin of the American League, the Dodgers ate the broom.
A team that had finally seemed to understand its pitch looked at its fold ace.
A team whose offensive had become balanced and that deep could barely prick a starter of the utility of a mild transfer companion which they once cut.
And, yes, a team that does everything well has done pieces of everything, a wild launch marking a race, a wild land marking another race and an insane base attempt stolen costing another race.
In all, it resulted in a 7-3 Yankees victory that left the dodgers faced with another set of numbers.
The most talented team in baseball is 12-10 against the contenders in the legitimate championship.
The richest team in baseball has a 28-23 sheet since the start of season 8-0.
And now, one of the most prey to the baseball injury must go back for a series of four games against a first New York team that won seven of the eight. Followed by three games at Hot St. Louis. Followed by three games in Angry San Diego. Followed by three games against the Reborn giants of San Francisco. Followed by four other games against Damn San Diego.
Phew. Snear. A little mamba would be good.
The fact that the dodgers are confronted with this incredibly difficult section would have made very soft to sweep the Yankees, in particular to come 24 hours after having beat them 18-2, and less than 48 hours after having abused them to beat them 8-5.
Everyone thought that this team of reigning champion Dodger of Gargantusen expectations was finally and definitively arrived.
Not so fast.
“When these guys came to town, I think we have increased our goal, our approach, just the intensity,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts before Sunday's match. “And fortunately it is shown.”
And then he disappeared again, which in a way was the problem of the Dodgers all season, right?
“We have our guy tonight,” Roberts also said, referring to Yoshinobu Yamamoto, a Cy Young candidate who had closed the Yankees last season. “It's going to be fun.”
And then that was not the case.
Roberts refused to change his positive air later, by maintaining: “For us, the point to remember is, we have won a series, and that was the goal that happened this weekend.”
Yeah, but still …
Yamamoto had his second first stinking as Dodger, exceeded by only his escape from the opening of the division series last season against the Padres.
He abandoned seven careers in career with four points in just 3 rounds, and did not have a lot of help.
The Yankees quickly put the dodgers on the ropes with a first in disorderly round, marking one and in charge of the basics, among other blows, two walks and a wild launch at the house of the left field player Andy Pages.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts is shooting the launcher leaving Yoshinobu Yamamoto from the match in the fourth round against New York Yankees on Sunday.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
A round later, the Dodgers should have returned to take a 2-1 advance on the Tommy Edman circuit. But on the previous field, the pages, perhaps trying to catch up with this ugly throw, were thrown by trying to fly third despite the fact that there is only one.
A round after that, Yamamoto went bankrupt, judge on the march, abandoning a circuit of two points by Ben Rice, then producing two single to install a wilderness field.
It was completely scary for pitching staff working on such a precarious tightrope. There is enough uncertainty in other places for which the arm on which they must be able is that attached to Yamamoto.
The four starters planned for the Mets series are Dustin May, Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin and Landon Knack. All were both decent and in difficulty and the essential is, would you like to give the ball to one of them with your season on the line?
Honestly, dodgers need Yamamoto to be great, transforming a hot and sunny Sunday afternoon into a coldly missed opportunity.
His bad day was that all the Yankees needed when the high -end of Dodgers – minus a wounded Mookie Betts – became without strike in 16 at -bats. One day after their attack hit 21 strokes, stars can not even raise a scratch on the starter Ryan Yarbrough? How is it going?
The Dodgers should have learned everything about Yarbrough. They had for some of the last two seasons, long enough to receive a World Series ring but not long enough to prevent them from freeing it mainly before exchanging it.
The offensive difficulties, which condemned the end of the circuits by Max Muncy and Pages, were embodied by two facial plants of the intermediate round.
The Dodgers Copstick Miguel Rojas label the receiver of the New York Austin Wells Yankees in a stolen base attempt on Sunday.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)
The Dodgers put two runners in the fifth, but an online journey from Miguel Rojas to Center Field was captured, only briefly invoking memories of what was not.
Then, the top of the order could not take the ball from the inner field in sixth round, disappearing gently on 13 throws.
“It's funky, it's funky,” said Will Smith about his former teammate, and he’s not talking about funky cool.
There have been good news for dodgers on Sunday, Betts working while wearing a shoe for the first time since its fracture of the toe during a midnight room and, according to Roberts, handling the pain. This means that he could be back soon and, even if he has missed his usual offensive greatness this season, his return cannot happen early enough.
Betts met the media before the game to discuss them.
“Going just to the toilet … Whatever you imagined is exactly what happened,” he said. “I'm sure we have all fractured the toes like that … just Malase, I guess.”
Two words, Mookie.
Night light.
