The Dodgers were one out away from victory in the ninth and 10th innings but let one-run leads get away each time.
PHILADELPHIA – Forty games into the season with a .156 batting average and .610 OPS, there must be times when Max Muncy has thought it couldn’t get any worse.Muncy booted what should have been the game-ending ground ball in the 10th inning Sunday afternoon, allowing two runs to score and ending the Dodgers’ winning steak with a 4-3 loss to the Philadelphia Phillies.
The Dodgers were one out away from extending that streak to eight consecutive wins in both the ninth and 10th innings. With Craig Kimbrel and Daniel Hudson unavailable , they couldn’t close it out either time. “Certainly feels that way,” Muncy said when asked if he feels like only bad things are happening for him this year. “But it’s one of those things where, I go out there every day and I try to at least throw something in the bucket, try to do whatever I can to help the team win — whether it’s get a walk, get on base, make a play. “Unfortunately today, I took something out of it. I didn’t add to helping the team. That’s my own fault and I gotta own up to that.” That bucket was depleted Sunday by a difficult stretch of schedule that has led the Dodgers to ask their relievers to pitch 63 2/3 innings over the past 17 games including 6 2/3 on Saturday. That left Dodgers manager Dave Roberts saying before the game that he would have to “piece it together” out of the bullpen and hoping starter Tony Gonsolin could give them some length.Hindered by a sore shoulder last season, Gonsolin completed six innings for a second consecutive start, the first time in his career he has gone six innings in consecutive starts. The right-hander retired 11 of the first 13 Phillies, allowing a single and a walk . Garrett Stubbs hit a splitter left over the plate for a solo home run to lead off the sixth but Gonsolin struck out the next three batters, finishing his sixth inning with his 90th pitch and dropping his ERA to 1.62 this season. “I think I’m throwing better pitches with it,” he said of his splitter, a key piece of his pitch mix. “I think I’m throwing more competitive strikes and competitive balls with it, getting some swings on it that I like to see. “Being able to throw some off-speed stuff for strikes, getting the heater in there, in the zones that I want it, and getting that early contact, early weak contact ideally.” The Dodgers’ only offense through the nine innings, though, was a pair of solo home runs by Mookie Betts and Edwin Rios . That left Roberts trying to MacGyver a closer out of the spare parts left in a Dodgers bullpen without veterans Kimbrel or Hudson . Roberts’ first choice was to ride Yency Almonte for the final five outs. Almonte got a big double play to end the eighth and retired the first two batters in the ninth before Nick Castellanos doubled and Jean Segura lined a game-tying RBI single on a first-pitch fastball.
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