Dodgers’ game-losing error leaves Gavin Lux, Max Muncy victim to D-Backs troll

Walker Buehler’s complete game shutout feels like ages ago, doesn’t it? Since that wonderful Monday evening, the Los Angeles Dodgers somehow spun that momentum into … all-around bad baseball.

They dropped the final two games to the Arizona Diamondbacks to lose the series, which was characterized by futility on offense and various lapses on defense. Over the final 17 innings of this series, the Dodgers scored just one run and committed three errors, one of which did them in on Wednesday.

Blame it on Max Muncy, blame it on Gavin Lux. But the throw wasn’t great and the effort to snag it to limit the damage wasn’t great either.

In the bottom of the eighth, Arizona had a runner on first with no outs and decided to play some small ball to better their chances with converting their situation into a scoring opportunity. Little did they know, all it would take was a bunt from Sergio Alcantara to bring the winning run home.

He laid down a nice one, Muncy ran in to get it, but the throw sailed on him a bit, and Lux was left to try and haul it in with an out-stretched effort. But it turns out he should’ve just jumped, let the runner at first reach safely, and see what happened in the next at-bat.

Instead, the ball went into right field and Daulton Varsho scored all the way from first.

The Diamondbacks laughed at the Dodgers’ misfortune on Wednesday

Fans on Twitter are giving it to Lux right now, but others might argue an experienced third baseman such as Muncy should’ve made a better throw (he was charged with the error in the end). Lux, who was playing second base, has next to no experience catching errant throws at first base … even though his awareness in this situation probably should’ve been a bit better.

And it’s easier for him to be the target for criticism because he did this on Tuesday night:

That error allowed two runs to score to make it a 3-2 game. The batter in that sequence reached second base on the throwing miscue and then scored on an RBI single to tie it up. The D-Backs won on a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth after the Dodgers failed to score a run after the first inning.

Perhaps all that time in the outfield has Lux feeling a bit out of place at second? Either way, the entire team is to blame for various shortcomings against one of the worst rosters in MLB.

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