Dodgers: This stat about blown leads really sums up LAD’s misery

The Los Angeles Dodgers have entered uncharted territory prior to resuming their season Friday, otherwise known as third place in the NL West.

How’d they get here, down among the Diamondbacks and Rockies? A brutal stretch that began with a loss in the road series finale against the San Diego Padres, and has since resulted in a 4-13 record and some of the most brutal April and May losses you can imagine.

Do all these games “matter”? Not as much as the ones in October, no. Will the Dodgers be “fine”? Of course they will — even though this rotation and offense should be losing streak-proof, and the team’s injuries should not have tossed them off their axis.

Bottom line, even though losses happen in the long run, this recent stretch has been as painful as possible, and the Dodgers have been tantalizingly close to victory in so many losses.

If you’re not watching these games and caring about them beginning to end, then don’t join us for the postseason. It’s really that simple.

And if you’d like to tell your fellow angry Dodgers fans to “calm down,” then you might want to reevaluate exactly how painful it can be to watch three-to-four hours of a baseball game, hold a lead until there’s one out remaining, then watch it get frittered away.

Los Angeles has gotten to that point three times in the past week. They’ve lost three times.

The Dodgers have lost three games this week at the absolute last second.

Of course, there’s a slight bit of missed phrasing there. After all, the Dodgers won a 16-4 game in Milwaukee this week. Certainly, they managed to capture the final out in that one.

This super team is 1-6 in their last seven contests, though, and were one out away from a happier ending on Saturday against the Brewers (the Mitch White Game), Tuesday evening against the Dodgers (also … also Mitch White), and Wednesday against the Cubbies.

This time around, Los Angeles was bitten by the shift in extra innings while trying desperately to hang on.

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In other words, the little things are breaking the wrong way for the Dodgers over and over and over again right now.

Then again, they’re supposed to have superstars leading the way. They’re supposed to have five horses in the rotation. These games shouldn’t even be getting to this razor-thin margin for error.

Alas. We’ve been hurt before. Bring on Friday’s game.

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