3 increasingly weird lineup changes that could spark Dodgers after Game 4 loss

After Anthony Banda and Blake Treinen gave up four runs in the top of the seventh of Game 4 (two of which were credited to Shohei Ohtani) to give the Blue Jays a 6-1 lead, Dodgers fans knew that it was over.

A team like the Dodgers shouldn't see a five-run deficit as totally insurmountable, even in late innings, but the offense has offered little in the way of faith that they have the grit to stage comebacks like that. Since the Wild Card, LA never scored more than five runs in a game until Game 3 of the World Series.

Dave Roberts said after the Game 4 loss, which knotted the series at 2-2, that the lineup "might look a little different" for Game 5. Dodgers fans already have a good idea as to what that different look will be, but let's get a little creative with it and play armchair manager for a second.

3 increasingly weird lineup changes that could help Dodgers spark after Game 4 loss

Least weird: Replacing Andy Pages with Alex Call

This is the obvious move and will almost certainly happen. Call will replace Pages batting ninth, the Dodgers will put him in left field, and move either Kiké Hernández or Tommy Edman to center. If it's Edman, Hernández will go to second.

Call has only gotten 11 plate appearances over six postseason games, but he's hitting .444 with a 1.027 OPS in that small sample and is, at least, almost guaranteed to put up more competitive at-bats than Pages, who is batting .080 with a .215 OPS and was replaced by Call in late innings of Game 4.

It'll be a defensive downgrade all-around, but you can't have everything, and the offense has always been the bigger concern for the Dodgers.

Weirder: Moving Mookie Betts down in the lineup

Betts getting hot at the end of the regular season gave Dodgers fans hope that he would still be able to turn a career-worst year at the plate into a productive offseason, but that hasn't really happened. He hit well in the Wild Card, but everyone hit well in the Wild Card. His OPS has been in free fall since then — .631 in the NLDS, .478 in the NLCS, now .431 in the World Series.

When Betts was struggling in the regular season, Roberts refused to move him down the order and in fact moved him up into the leadoff spot for a spell (it didn't work). It was about belief in one of his stars, but that was the regular season — there's no leeway to give here anymore.

Freddie Freeman, Teoscar Hernández, Will Smith, and Max Muncy have all been more productive in the World Series so far. There's basically no way that Roberts drops Betts all the way down to sixth, which is why it's a weirder option, but Betts has gotten more at-bats than anyone in the Dodgers' lineup this postseason and hasn't delivered.

Weirdest: Both of the above, and replacing Tommy Edman with Hyeseong Kim

Fan favorite Hyeseong Kim has been on every postseason roster so far but has only appeared once, for a pinch-run appearance in the NLDS. The Dodgers have been dissatisfied with his bat all year, and his performance did plummet in September (even though he was barely getting opportunities), but come on — the people long for a proper Hyeseong Kim postseason debut.

Edman, last year's NLCS MVP, has been disappointing in October so far and has been almost as bad as Betts in the World Series, hitting .167 with a .472 OPS. Putting him in center field after dumping Pages could also exacerbate the ankle issue he's been nursing.

Kim would be functionally similar to Edman on defense, and he's speedier. And, who knows? This series has already shown that World Series heroes can be born at any time.

It's never going to happen, but it's fun to dream.