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Commentary: Repeat champions or October duds? Dodgers identification disaster retains everybody guessing

By Editorial Board Published August 25, 2025 6 Min Read
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Commentary: Repeat champions or October duds? Dodgers identification disaster retains everybody guessing

SAN DIEGO — When he was completed rounding the bases at Petco Park on Sunday, Shohei Ohtani made a detour on his return to the Dodgers’ bench.

Seated by the visiting dugout was a fan in a San Diego Padres cap and brown Fernando Tatis Jr. jersey. The spectator had spent many of the afternoon reminding Ohtani of how a lot he’d stunk within the three-game collection.

Ohtani initiated a high-five along with his tormentor, who playfully bowed in deference.

Supervisor Dave Roberts howled with delight. Teoscar Hernández showered Ohtani with sunflower seeds.

These have been like scenes from the nice outdated days, the Dodgers hitting bombs and laughing as they celebrated.

However was this a mirage?

Even after avoiding a sweep by the Padres with an 8-2 victory, even after shifting again right into a tie with them for the lead within the Nationwide League West, the Dodgers continued to be an enigma.

Who have been they? The workforce that trampled the Padres within the collection finale? Or the workforce that rolled over within the two earlier video games of the collection?

“They’re gettable,” stated a scout from a rival NL workforce who was in attendance.

The type of sport the Dodgers performed on Sunday, nonetheless, prompted the identical scout to connect this qualifier: They’ll’t be counted out.

One in all baseball’s worst offensive groups over the past two months, the Dodgers blasted 4 house runs, together with two by Freddie Freeman. The Dodgers claimed the lead on a three-run blast within the seventh inning by Dalton Speeding.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto did his half on the mound, selecting up his eleventh win by limiting the Padres to 2 runs over six innings.

The Dodgers have 31 video games remaining within the common season and so they count on a variety of their injured gamers to return over that interval. The shape they take will dramatically have an effect on their possibilities in October.

Freddie Freeman, proper, celebrates with Mookie Betts after hitting a two-run house run within the seventh inning in opposition to the Padres on Sunday.

(Derrick Tuskan / Related Press)

Profitable their division may place them to safe a top-two seed within the NL, which might grant them a first-round bye. Failing to take action would topic them to a harmful best-of-three wild-card collection.

Due to the alarming variety of accidents they’ve sustained this season, the Dodgers have already cycled by a wide range of identities, from a workforce with out beginning pitching to a workforce with no dependable bullpen to, most just lately, a workforce with no constant offense.

Of their earlier two video games, the Dodgers scored a mixed two runs, main Roberts and a few gamers to query the workforce’s collective method on the plate.

Only a week earlier, the division race regarded as if it could possibly be over. The Padres entered a three-game collection at Dodger Stadium as the most popular workforce this facet of Milwaukee. The Padres had bolstered their lineup, rotation and top-ranked bullpen on the commerce deadline whereas the Dodgers did virtually nothing.

The Dodgers nonetheless swept them.

However their inconsistency on offense stored them from defending the two-game lead they’d constructed. They inexplicably dropped two of 4 video games in opposition to the last-place Colorado Rockies. By Saturday, after their second loss to the Padres in as many days, they have been in second place.

Simply because the Dodgers regarded as in the event that they could possibly be written off, simply as they regarded as if they may relinquish management of the division to the Padres, they responded with a efficiency worthy of their $320-million payroll.

“Today was a game we couldn’t drop no matter what,” Yamamoto stated in Japanese, “so I went into the game with more focus than usual.”

The hitters additionally went into the sport with a heightened focus, leading to extra prolonged at-bats that regularly wore down the Padres’ pitchers. The Dodgers scored seven of their runs within the final 4 innings.

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The Dodgers don’t play the Padres once more this season however Freeman stated his workforce must be extra involved about their enchancment relatively than what its division rivals do.

Requested when he would begin to scoreboard watch, Freeman replied, “Maybe in mid-September.”

Reminded solely 31 video games stay within the common season, Freeman replied, “It is a sprint. I’ll be honest with you there. It’s a sprint now. You can’t worry about other teams if, like the last couple games, we don’t fix our offense, how our at-bats were going the last couple days. We fixed it today, we did better today. If you’re worrying about other things, that’s just not conducive, it’s not going to lead to quality things in the clubhouse. So maybe mid-September. When I turn 36, we’ll start scoreboard watching, all right?”

Freeman’s birthday is on Sept. 12. Will the Dodgers know who they’re by then?

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