After losing to the San Diego Padres, the Dodgers suddenly find themselves in a compelling division race.
The Dodgers have yet to receive the boosts of their five trade deadline player acquisitions. Over the final two months of the season, they’ll need the reinforcements more urgently than they ever could have imagined. After an 8-1 loss to the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night — in which Michael Kopech became the first, and to this point only, new Dodger to make his team debut — the Dodgers suddenly find themselves in a compelling division race.
He walked a batter and committed a run-scoring defensive error. Most jarringly, he failed to record a strikeout for the first time in his 424 career regular-season starts. For as bad as his stat line was, the underwhelming nature of Kershaw’s stuff might have been an even bigger cause for alarm. The left-hander averaged less than 90 mph with his fastball, a quick drop from his season debut last week.
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