Dodgers' Strong Road Trip Finishes With Bullpen Meltdown In Loss To Mets

NEW YORK — Dodgers reliever Will Klein had conscionable induced nan Mets’ Marcus Semien to whiff connected a precocious fastball. So, he went location again, a small further inside. But Semien sewage a clasp of it for a three-run location tally that put nan crippled thoroughly retired of reach.

The Dodgers ended an awesome roadworthy travel connected a sour statement pinch an 8-3 loss to nan Mets.

They went 6-3 connected their East Coast plaything and won bid against nan New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies and Mets.

“It’s great,” head Dave Roberts said Saturday night. “It seems for illustration we’ve been connected nan roadworthy a agelong time, but nan recreation has been bully arsenic acold arsenic staying successful this clip zone. We’re uncovering ways to win. So that’s nan main thing. That’s nan entity of nan game.”

The Dodgers’ All-Stars, including manager Dave Roberts and his coaching staff, near for Philadelphia 2 weeks ago. The remainder of nan squad met them successful New York for 3 games against nan Yankees. Then they traveled to Philadelphia for a three-game set, took a detour to Washington to sojourn nan White House earlier returning to New York.

“It’s been a agelong roadworthy travel — particularly for nan guys who went to Philly for nan All-Star Game,” correct fielder Kyle Tucker said. “Being capable to travel retired of nan break and play immoderate really bully teams and put together really competitory at-bats and awesome innings from our pitching unit is huge. Some of nan guys are benignant of grinding successful position of really agelong they’ve been distant from LA. It’s benignant of portion of it. You’ve sewage to travel retired and play sloppy and they’ve done a awesome occupation of that.”

Even so, nan Dodgers (67-39) played cleaner shot connected this extended roadworthy travel — a mates baserunning mistakes speech — than they did successful nan homestand earlier nan break.

Maybe nan Dodgers conscionable needed clip disconnected to reset.

Against nan Mets (44-62) connected Sunday, nan first mates innings didn’t look promising. After Shohei Ohtani led pinch a double and Max Muncy drew a two-out walk, some were near stranded.

A.J. Ewing’s lead-off double against Dodgers starter Emmet Sheehan, however, almost instantly led to a run. Francisco Lindor past sent a debased changeup into shallow correct section for an RBI single.

The Dodgers’ three-up, three-down 2nd inning ended erstwhile Teoscar Hernández tried to agelong a azygous into a double and ran into an out. Then, Sheehan deed Tyrone Taylor pinch a transportation to commencement nan bottommost half of nan inning.

Sheehan retired nan adjacent 3 batters arsenic nan Dodgers started to return control. They pulled into nan lead pinch a two-run 3rd inning, powered by doubles from Eliezer Alfonzo (his 2nd double successful arsenic galore appearances) and Freddie Freeman.

The Dodgers manufactured different tally nan adjacent inning pinch a brace of singles, an correction by Mets first baseman Jared Young, and a run-scoring double play.

As nan Dodgers bullpen took complete successful nan sixth, however, nan crippled slipped away. Jack Dreyer walked 2 batters and recorded conscionable 1 retired successful nan sixth inning earlier Roberts replaced him pinch Evan Phillips.

In a 1-1 count, Phillips threw a sinker connected nan wrong separator of nan onslaught zone, and Taylor lifted it into nan left-field stands for a go-ahead three-run homer. Phillips, who past week talked astir rewiring his rehab mindset, has already surrendered 4 location runs successful conscionable 7 outings.

A run-scoring passed shot from Dalton Rushing and Semien’s three-run blast successful nan seventh yet sealed nan triumph for nan Mets.