Dodgers fans won't like Blake Snell's tone-deaf response to poor World Series showing

Three of the runs that were credited to Blake Snell in his Game 5 start weren't entirely his fault. The Blue Jays' third run of the game scored after a triple for Daulton Varsho, but he might not've gotten all the way to third if it weren't for Teoscar Hernández trying and failing to play hero and botching a catch. Varsho came around to score on a sac fly.

Edgardo Henriquez has to take some of the blame for third and fourth runs; he let both score on a wild pitch and then an RBI single.

What were definitely Snell's fault were the leadoff homer to Davis Schneider and the solo homer to Vladimir Guerrero Jr. — on Snell's first and third pitches of the game, no less. What were also his fault were the two wild pitches in the seventh that allowed Addison Barger to get to third.

Snell didn't seem to want to take accountability for those mistakes, though. After Game 5, he bizarrely said, "They didn't really get to me… Luck plays in baseball." He was also pretty dismissive of the Blue Jays lineup outside of Guerrero: "Vlad's a really good hitter...but the rest of the lineup..."

Dodgers ace Blake Snell tries to blame World Series Game 5 performance on "bad luck"

Snell frequently referred to the exit velocity on Schneider's home run, arguing that it only left the bat 1 MPH faster than he threw it. And, to be fair, it did just barely get over the wall. But of Schneider's 11 regular season homers, five were hit in the upper third of the zone, two exactly where Snell threw the ball. It would've been a homer in every other stadium except maybe Truist, PNC, and Globe Life.

Dodgers fans would be first in line to disparage the Blue Jays' offense, but they've literally been out-hitting and out-scoring the Dodgers in every possible metric so far. The Blue Jays have a .261 team average, the Dodgers .201. The Blue Jays have a .730 OPS, the Dodgers .650. LA is still out-slugging them in homers, but what does that matter if they've only scored 18 runs to Toronto's 29?

Making excuses just isn't what Dodgers fans want to hear right now anyway. Yes, the bullpen and the offense have to take a share of the blame here, but Snell hasn't lived up to the shutout eight innings he threw against the Brewers in Game 1 of the NLCS. Hasn't really even gotten close.