The Dodgers have received 71 video games since Tyler Glasnow earned his final victory.
That was March 31, 152 days in the past. The season was six video games previous then. No different pitcher with at the least 13 main league begins has gone longer with no win this season.
But Glasnow was by no means deserving of a greater destiny than he was Saturday, when he took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and a shutout into the seventh, solely to wind up with the loss when the Dodgers fell 6-1 to the Arizona Diamondbacks.
With the Padres beating the Minnesota Twins, the Dodgers’ lead within the Nationwide League West is again at one sport.
It’s not as if Glasnow has pitched poorly. In a single begin he didn’t yield a run and in 4 others he gave up only one.
He didn’t get the win in any of these video games.
In 4 of his first 13 begins, the Dodgers (77-59) didn’t rating a run behind him. So whereas his 2.45 earned-run common and 6 earned runs given up in 4 July appearances led the group’s starters, all he had was a loss and three no selections to indicate for it.
He’s been nearly pretty much as good this month. However he’s by no means been higher than he was Saturday, when he retired the primary 10 batters on simply 39 pitches, placing out 4.
The spell was damaged with one out within the fourth when Glasnow hit Ketel Marte with a 1-1 pitch. He escaped the inning with out additional injury and with the no-hitter intact.
Arizona’s Eduardo Rodriguez (6-8) was practically as stingy, nevertheless, giving up simply two hits via 4 innings, though he did stroll two.
Rodriguez, who began the evening with a 5.67 ERA, is the fourth starter with an ERA over 5.00 the Dodgers have confronted of their previous eight video games. They’ve misplaced all 4 video games, scoring one run in 24 innings mixed towards the 4 pitchers.
The Dodgers practically obtained to Rodriguez within the fifth inning when Kiké Hernández led off with a tough grounder that obtained by third baseman Blaze Alexander for a single. Miguel Rojas then despatched him to 3rd with a double and Shohei Ohtani adopted with what ought to have been a sacrifice fly to left.
The throw from Lourdes Gurriel Jr. was off line however when Hernández didn’t slide, catcher Gabriel Moreno was capable of retrieve the ball and tag the runner to finish the double play. After an extended assessment, the decision by plate umpire Dan Bellino was affirmed and one pitch later, Mookie Betts lined to Alexander at third to finish the inning.
The Dodgers threatened once more within the sixth when Will Smith and Freddie Freeman walked on full-count pitches. However a strikeout and Andy Pages’ double-play grounder again to the mound ended the menace.
Dodgers pitcher Tyler Glasnow delivers through the fourth inning towards the Diamondbacks on Saturday.
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Glasnow, in the meantime, misplaced his no-hitter on an infield single within the sixth and his shutout on a house run within the seventh.
The primary hit went to Ildemaro Vargas, the No. 9 hitter, who tapped a one-out grounder up the third-base line that Hernández, taking part in properly off the road, ranged to his left to area. However his hurried throw had no likelihood to catch the speedy Vargas.
Corbin Carroll ended the shutout an inning later when he lined the primary pitch into the right-field pavilion. And that’s when Glasnow’s evening spiraled uncontrolled.
Gurriel adopted with a sinking liner to middle that Pages kicked away for a double and when Teoscar Hernández was unable to squeeze Alexander’s lengthy drive on the wall in right-center, which went for an additional double, the Diamondbacks (68-69) had runners on second and third with no outs.
Moreno drove Gurriel in on a fly ball to middle and Alexander adopted him residence when Pages’ throw from middle skipped away from Kiké Hernández at third to make it 3-0.
Glasnow, baseball’s finest 1-3 pitcher, didn’t come out for the eighth, having thrown 100 pitches in a season-high seven innings, placing out six. The Dodgers obtained him a run — the primary they’ve scored for him in two begins and 11 innings — as a parting reward because of a Betts’ RBI single. However Smith flew out to middle to finish the inning.
The Dodgers had been one for eight with runners in scoring place Saturday, leaving eight runners on base.
Arizona then put the sport away within the ninth, reaching reliever Kirby Yates for 3 runs on a single, a two-out stroll and Vargas’ second homer of the season, a 423-foot bomb to right-center.
And so on.
Monday is the Dodgers’ second off day in lower than per week so supervisor Dave Roberts plans to skip Emmet Sheehan’s spot within the rotation. Sheehan shut out the Reds on two hits in a career-best seven innings in his final outing. The proper-hander might pitch out of the bullpen Sunday, however Roberts will open the group’s six-game highway journey to Pittsburgh and Baltimore with Clayton Kershaw and Shohei Ohtani.
Reliever Michael Kopech, who has spent many of the season on the injured checklist with knee and shoulder points, will accompany the group on its East Coast highway journey and might be activated Tuesday. Brock Stewart, sidelined since Aug. 12 with shoulder irritation, has resumed throwing after getting a cortisone shot.
Kyle Damage, who pitched in 4 video games over the previous two seasons earlier than present process surgical procedure to restore a ligament in his proper elbow final July, confronted reside hitters in a multi-inning simulated sport Saturday and can pitch at Oklahoma Metropolis in September. “It’s been a long 13 months. I’m very excited to be back,” mentioned Damage, 27.
Roberts didn’t rule out a bullpen position for Damage down the stretch.
