Steve Webb
CHAVEZ RAVINE, CA — Humiliation. Utter and complete humiliation. That is the only way to describe what happened on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium. In losing 15-0 to the rival Giants, the 2023 Dodgers have hit a new low for the season and lost yet another series along the way. They are now four games behind the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West and only a half a game ahead of the Giants. It. Was. Not. Good.
Bobby Miller started the game, and he was mound to get roughed up up sooner or later. Saturday, it turns out, was the day. The first four innings went well, but the Dodgers rookie gave up back-to-back big innings to the Giants in the fifth and the sixth and the game was pretty much over after that.
In the fifth, it started with a walk, a steal and a bad pickoff move and it ended with a Lamont Wade Jr. three-run home run to right field. In the sixth, Miller gave up one more run before surrendering the ball to Alex Vesia, who quickly proceeded to walk the bases loaded and give up a grand slam to J.D. Davis. In the course of about thirty minutes, it went from a scoreless ballgame to 9-0 blowout.
And a bunch of stuff happened after that, but you don’t really care. It was awful, no sense rehashing the pain here. But it all gave Dodger fans a lot to wonder about as they headed to the exits after witnessing the worst home shutout defeat since 1898.
“This is as long [of a rut] as I can remember,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “We’re obviously trying to find solutions. … As far as level of concern, not concerned overall. It doesn’t feel good to lose, certainly over a stretch like this. We just have to focus on playing good baseball. If we do that, it will change.”
