Steve Webb
ST. LOUIS, MO — Usually when you score eight runs and hit a couple of homers, you win the game. Unless, of course you give up 16 runs and seven homers. Yeah, that’s not a recipe for success.
The stretched thin bullpen finally buckled under the weight of all the innings it’s been logging, giving up a huge seven-run bottom of the 8th inning after the Dodgers had managed to climb to within one run after trailing badly most of the game.
Everybody, basically, got shelled. There were no survivors. Julio Urias got shelled early. The pen got shelled late. Somewhere in the middle, Freddie Freeman hit his 300th homer, a grand slam that momentarily gave the Dodgers a glimmer of hope.
But it was not to be.
