{"id":108723,"date":"2025-08-31T13:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108723\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T13:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T13:02:14","slug":"mistake-prone-dodgers-fail-tyler-glasnow-in-loss-to-arizona-we-beat-ourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108723\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistake-prone Dodgers fail Tyler Glasnow in loss to Arizona: ‘We beat ourselves’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Dodgers<\/a> have won 71 games since Tyler Glasnow<\/a> earned his last victory.<\/p>\n

That was March 31, 152 days ago. The season was six games old then. No other pitcher with at least 13 major league starts has gone longer without a win this season.<\/p>\n

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Yet Glasnow was never deserving of a better fate than he was Saturday, when he took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and a shutout into the seventh, only to wind up with the loss when the Dodgers fell 6-1<\/a> to the Arizona Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n

With the Padres beating the Minnesota Twins, the Dodgers\u2019 lead in the National League West is back at one game.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not as if Glasnow has pitched poorly. In one start he didn\u2019t yield a run and in four others he gave up just one.<\/p>\n

Read more: Hern\u00e1ndez: Everyone can stop wondering. Mookie Betts isn’t moving back to right field<\/a><\/p>\n

He didn\u2019t get the win in any of those games \u2014 and that\u2019s starting to get old.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI know our team will will come back and play better,\u201d said Glasnow, easily the best pitcher in baseball with a 1-3 record. \u201cBut it’s frustrating right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

In four of his first 13 starts, the Dodgers (77-59) didn\u2019t score a run behind him. So while his 2.45 earned-run average and six earned runs given up in four July appearances led the team\u2019s starters, all he had was a loss and three no decisions to show for it.<\/p>\n

He was almost as good in August \u2014 when his record was 0-2.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe can only do what he can do,\u201d manager Dave Roberts said. \u201cSo, yeah, if you’re not scoring runs, it certainly decreases your margin. But the pitcher’s got to do what he’s got to do. The defense has got to do what they’ve got to do, and then the offense has got to do what they\u2019ve got to do.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dodgers third baseman Kik\u00e9 Hern\u00e1ndez reacts after striking out in the seventh inning Saturday against Arizona. (Carlin Stiehl \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

Only one of those three things happened Saturday, when Glasnow retired the first 10 batters on just 39 pitches, striking out four.<\/p>\n

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The spell was broken with one out in the fourth when Glasnow hit Ketel Marte with a 1-1 pitch. He escaped the inning without further damage and with the no-hitter intact.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was aware of it, yeah,\u201d he said of the no-hitter.<\/p>\n

Arizona\u2019s Eduardo Rodriguez (6-8) was nearly as stingy, however, giving up just two hits through four innings, although he did walk two.<\/p>\n

Rodriguez, who started the night with a 5.67 ERA, is the fourth starter with an ERA over 5.00 the Dodgers have faced in their past eight games.\u00a0They\u00a0have\u00a0lost all four games, scoring\u00a0one run in\u00a024\u00a0innings\u00a0combined against the four pitchers.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery day I write the lineup down and I feel good about the guys that we’re running out there. And you know it comes to having a plan and when you have an opportunity to take advantage, you have to do your job,\u201d Roberts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI still feel like our guys are better but all that matters is how you perform.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Dodgers nearly got to Rodriguez\u00a0in the fifth\u00a0inning\u00a0when\u00a0Kik\u00e9\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez\u00a0led off with a hard grounder that got by third baseman Blaze Alexander for a single. Miguel Rojas\u00a0then sent him to third with a\u00a0double\u00a0and\u00a0Shohei Ohtani followed with\u00a0what should have been a\u00a0sacrifice fly to left.<\/p>\n

The throw from Lourdes Gurriel Jr. was off line but\u00a0when\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez didn\u2019t slide, catcher Gabriel Moreno\u00a0was able\u00a0to\u00a0retrieve\u00a0the ball and tag the runner to complete the double play. After a long review, the call by plate umpire Dan Bellino was affirmed.<\/p>\n

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Hern\u00e1ndez,\u00a0who had his back to Gurriel, said he looked for on-deck hitter Mookie Betts for help, but Betts was out of position.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn’t see Mookie, and I didn’t slide,\u201d he said. \u201cI was out. I thought I was safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was\u00a0just\u00a0one of a number of sloppy mistakes made by the Dodgers, who had two runners thrown out on the bases and made two fielding errors.<\/p>\n

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Dodgers baserunner Freddie Freeman is tagged out by Arizona third baseman Blaze Alexander during the fourth inning Saturday. (Carlin Stiehl \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

\u201cTonight, there was a lot of things that I’m not going to get into that just lends itself to really uncharacteristic lack of focus,\u201d\u00a0a visibly frustrated\u00a0Roberts said. \u201cThere were some things, whether it’s\u00a0an at-bat\u00a0here or there, whether it’s a play here or there, that\u00a0[were]\u00a0just mistakes and execution that just can’t happen.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe gave it away. We beat ourselves. So, yeah, this is this a tough one. I just really can’t excuse it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glasnow,\u00a0meanwhile,\u00a0lost his no-hitter\u00a0on\u00a0Ildemaro Vargas\u2019\u00a0infield single in\u00a0the sixth\u00a0and his shutout on\u00a0Corbin Carroll\u2019s\u00a0home run in the seventh \u2014\u00a0after which his\u00a0night spiraled out of control.<\/p>\n

Gurriel followed with a sinking liner to center that\u00a0Andy Pages kicked away for a double and when Teoscar\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez\u00a0was unable to squeeze Alexander\u2019s long drive at the wall in right-center,\u00a0which went for another double,\u00a0the Diamondbacks (68-69) had runners on second and third with no outs.<\/p>\n

Moreno\u00a0drove\u00a0Gurriel\u00a0in on\u00a0a fly ball to center and Alexander followed him home when Pages\u2019 throw\u00a0from center\u00a0skipped away from Kik\u00e9\u00a0Hern\u00e1ndez\u00a0at third\u00a0to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n

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Glasnow, who didn\u2019t come out for the eighth, threw 100 pitches\u00a0in a season-high\u00a0seven innings, striking out six. The Dodgers got him a run \u2014\u00a0the first they\u2019ve scored for him in two starts and 11 innings\u00a0\u2014\u00a0thanks to an RBI single by Betts. But Smith flew out to center to end the inning.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers were one for eight with runners in scoring position Saturday, leaving eight runners on base.<\/p>\n

Arizona then put the game away in the ninth, reaching reliever Kirby Yates for three runs on a single, a two-out walk and Vargas\u2019\u00a0second homer of the season, a 423-foot bomb to right-center.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a great opportunity that we have, and you\u2019ve\u00a0got to embrace it,\u201d\u00a0Roberts said.\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019ve\u00a0got to want to get out there. You\u2019ve\u00a0got to have fun competing. And it just seems like the last couple nights,\u00a0at some points it was an unrecognizable ballclub.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve\u00a0got to play better.\u00a0We do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Etc.<\/p>\n

Monday is the Dodgers\u2019 second off day in less than a week so manager Dave Roberts plans to skip Emmet Sheehan\u2019s spot in the rotation. Sheehan shut out the Reds on two hits in a career-best seven innings in his last outing. The right-hander could pitch out of the bullpen Sunday, but Roberts will open the team\u2019s six-game road trip to Pittsburgh and Baltimore with Clayton Kershaw and Shohei Ohtani.<\/p>\n

Reliever Michael Kopech, who has spent most of the season on the injured list with knee and shoulder issues, will accompany the team on its East Coast road trip and could be activated Tuesday. Brock Stewart, sidelined since Aug. 12 with shoulder inflammation, has resumed throwing after getting a cortisone shot.<\/p>\n

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Kyle Hurt, who pitched in four games over the past two seasons before undergoing surgery to repair a ligament in his right elbow last July, faced live hitters in a multi-inning simulated game Saturday and will pitch at Oklahoma City in September. \u201cIt\u2019s been a long 13 months. I\u2019m very excited to be back,\u201d said Hurt, 27.<\/p>\n

Roberts did not rule out a bullpen role for Hurt down the stretch.<\/p>\n

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