Offense takes the night off as Dodgers fall to the Giants
In a loss to the Giants, the Dodgers scored their only run by bunching four walks in one hitless inning.
Shohei Ohtani waits for his at-bat against the Giants in the fifth inning. (Godofredo A. Vásquez / Associated Press) Four games ago, the Dodgers were on a pace to win 128 games.
They would win the National League West by, what, 20 or 30 games? Today, for the first time this season, the Dodgers do not own sole possession of first place in the NL West. They are tied for first with their rivals: the San Diego Padres.
On a cold and intermittently rainy night in San Francisco, the Dodgers’ bats were cold, and most productive when not used. In a 3-1 loss to the Giants, the Dodgers scored their only run by bunching four walks in one hitless inning. In the first inning, the Giants tagged Yoshinobu Yamamoto for three runs before he had recorded the second out.
Yamamoto righted himself by retiring the next 11 batters he faced, but the Dodgers lost for the third time in four games. The shine on the Dodgers’ most historic rivalry has faded, right along with the Giants. San Francisco has posted one winning record in the last nine seasons, and the chants of “Let’s Go Dodgers!