The Dodgers have now lost five of their past six games and 12 of their past 21 – a stretch that began with Dustin May and Julio Urias suffering injuries in back-to-back games. He’s gonna pitch in a lot of big spots for us this year.” “The result wasn’t good but tonight was a step in the right direction for me with Caleb. For me, for guys that you can trust in leverage, they’ve got to kind of go about things the right way as far as how they carry themselves on the mound – the poise, the demeanor and be able to weather crowd noise, a missed call, whatever it might be. I used the phrase ‘sped up on him.’ That bothers me,” Roberts said. “I was pretty upset with the way he handled it the other night in that save situation as far as how he carried himself. Roberts said he had a short talk with Ferguson after the game, relaying a positive message. Phillips had pitched in three of the previous five games.
Roberts had Evan Phillips warming up during the top of the ninth but said he was only going to use him if the Dodgers took the lead. One pitch he’d like to have back but at times you gotta give the hitter credit. I liked the way he threw the baseball tonight. “But that potential comes with pitching late in games. You never want to get walked off,” Roberts said.
Tuesday in Cincinnati, he entered with an 8-6 lead to protect in the ninth inning and retired just one of the six batters he faced, giving up a hit, walking three and hitting a batter as the Reds rallied to win.Īgainst the Phillies, Ferguson entered a tie game in the ninth and retired the first two batters he faced but left a cutter over the heart of the plate to Schwarber who sent it into the upper deck in right field. “You just kind of take it on the chin and keep moving.”įerguson has taken it on the chin in two of the three walk-off losses. It’s just one of those weird times – because it could be the flip side in the next four games. “You just do,” Mookie Betts said of absorbing three walk-off losses in four days. PHILADELPHIA - The Dodgers have become the kind of guests who wipe their feet at the door, compliment the furnishings and don’t complain about the menu.įor the third time in the first four games of this road trip, the Dodgers lost in their hosts’ final at-bat, falling to the Philadelphia Phillies when Caleb Ferguson gave up a walk-off home run to Kyle Schwarber that sent the Dodgers to a 5-4 defeat Friday night.
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