The Los Angeles Dodgers are in a full-blown meltdown, losing their seventh consecutive game after a brutal walk-off home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Star closer Edwin Díaz, who just returned from elbow surgery, watched Ryan Waldschmidt line a center field shot to give the D-backs a 4-3 win, capping off a truly painful night for L.A. This team had a 3-2 lead heading into the bottom of the ninth, and sending Díaz to the mound felt like a sure thing. Instead, Max Kepler walked, Tim Tawa struck out, and then Waldschmidt delivered the knockout blow.
Dodgers Can’t Buy a Win, Díaz Still Struggling
This losing streak, dating back to July 31, has been rough, and Díaz’s return hasn’t helped. He missed three months, and his stats since coming back are telling: an 11.00 ERA and a 2.44 WHIP. Yikes. Arizona’s other runs came from a Nolan Arenado solo homer in the second and Geraldo Perdomo’s RBI triple in the fifth. For the Dodgers, their three runs came on a sixth-inning force-out, an RBI single from Tommy Edman in the seventh, and an Andy Pages solo shot in the eighth. Los Angeles still holds a 7.5-game lead on Arizona for first in the NL West, but their 69-47 record has them slipping to the No. 3 seed in the NL playoffs. These seven losses include being swept at home by the surging Red Sox and then swept on the road by the Chicago Cubs. They can’t seem to catch a break!
Meanwhile, The Red Sox Are Absolutely Demolishing Everyone
On the flip side, what the Boston Red Sox are doing is just plain absurd. They obliterated the Athletics 13-1 at Fenway Park on Friday night, pushing their record to an incredible 27 wins in their last 30 games! That’s not a run; that’s a freight train. Boston is now 64-51 and only a half-game back of the New York Yankees for the first American League wild-card spot. The offense was on another level: five runs in the second inning, four in the fourth, and then back-to-back two-run innings in the sixth and seventh. Every single starting position player recorded a hit, the team racked up six doubles, 15 hits, and Jarren Duran crushed a two-run homer in the second. Seven Boston starters drove in a run, with Wilyer Abreu leading the charge with three RBI.
Left-hander Payton Tolle was absolutely dominant, going six innings, giving up just one run and two hits, and striking out 14 batters. Raymond Burgos then shut it down with three scoreless innings of relief. Tolle, in his first full MLB season, now boasts a 3.20 ERA, a 1.10 WHIP, a 128 ERA+, and 124 strikeouts over 107.0 innings pitched across 19 starts. He’s for real, and so are the Red Sox. The Dodgers are sinking fast, but Boston is soaring, and the rest of the league needs to take notice.
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Originally reported by Fox Sports.
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