Rovers run wild with 6 stolen bases in rout of Dodgers, The Pittsburgh rovers stole six bases Wednesday night running at will in an 8- 1 rout of the Dodgers that snapped the Dodgers ’ three game winning band. The rovers have plundered down, stealing nine bases in nine attempts over the first two games of this series. But the crime swell goes beyond that. The Dodgers have surrendered an MLB high 35 stolen bases in 40 attempts over the first 25 games of the season.
“ It has not been good, ” Dodgers director Dave Roberts said before the game of the Dodgers ’ incapacity to control the running game. “ We ’ve got to figure commodity out. I might have to do a better job of calling pitch outs. I do not know if that will help in certain situations. We ’ve got to try to keep these guys off base these burners. But they ’re gonna keep trying us. I know that. Our jugs know that. Our catchers know that. So we all got ta get better. ”
Tony Gonsolin held the rovers scoreless into the fourth inning in his season debut allowing two successes and walking three before being pulled after 3 ⅓ innings and 65 pitches. “ I threw way too multitudinous balls moment, ” said Gonsolin, who had 26 of those to 14 batters. “ Not throwing multitudinous effective pitches and fell ahead in a lot of counts. ”
Rovers reliever Phil Beck found himself in the early blocks against Ford. They used small ball( including a stolen base and a sacrifice bunt) to set up back- to- back RBI mates by Bryan Reynolds and Andrew McCutchen in the fifth inning. Three straight successes – with another stolen base thrown in – reacted in another run in the sixth.
They broke the game open with five runs in the seventh inning, scoring one run when Tucupita Marciano contended home from alternate base on an infield single. Dodgers catcher Austin Wynn’s was called for blocking the plate on that play, allowing Marciano to score. A double steal with Wynn’s one- hopping the adventure to third baseman Michael Busch, who was not indeed covering the base, set up a two- run double by Jason Delay.
“ When you ’re putting guys on base by way of walk or base successes or whatever it might be, they ’re gonna try to expose us. Right now I do not know the answer, ” Roberts said after the bottommost round of theft was done. “ The swish answer is to try to keep them off first base, but once they get there, they ’re taking advantage of us. So I suppose it’s a sextet of the jugs at times and also I suppose that the catchers can be shamefaced at times as well.
I wish it was a quick fix.
The Dodgers have another striking problem in need of form. The four relievers that followed Gonsolin each gave up runs and the bullpen’s cooperative period rose to5.32. Only three armies – the Kansas City Royals, Oakland A’s and Chicago White Sox – have been worse. That is not company the Dodgers want to keep.
“ Well I suppose there’s a lot of factors ” Roberts said. “ We ’re not doing a good job of getting ahead. The walk is in play – getting into bad counts, not being suitable to put guys down when we do get influence counts. Outside of a numerous guys, they ’re all kind of in that order.
“ The consistence of these guys has not been there, for the utmost part. You look at the track record and the track records are enough good. So I ’m going to keep running them out there and awaiting good goods when they go out there until ultimately commodity changes. ”
The Dodgers offense has not taken advantage of the new rules abetting and abetting a rise in stolen bases across the league this time. They did little fresh Wednesday night also. rovers starter Roansy Contreras walked two in the first five innings but did not give up a megahit until Wynn’s led off the sixth with a single.
“ I suppose just the fact that he was suitable to throw all his pitches for strikes fastball and slider. To me, that’s the name of it, ” Dodgers outfielder Jason Heyward said. “ Because if you can only throw one for a strike it’s going to be kind of easy to sit on it and get some good swings out. He made pitches when he demanded to. ”
The Dodgers ’ only run came on a single home run by Freddie Freeman in the eighth inning.
Tuesday night’s comeback win was the eighth time this season the Dodgers have scored eight or further runs in a game. But they have suffered a leftover in the overserved fate, losing six of the eight games that followed those breakouts and scoring a total of just 23 runs in those games.
