Dodgers reveal final desperate World Series lineup shuffle after Game 5 flop

For Game 5, Dave Roberts made the widely expected moves to replace Andy Pages with Alex Call, who he installed in left field, and bump Kiké Hernández to center field, but he also moved Mookie Betts down a place in the order, something that he declined to do through the entire regular season as Betts struggled.

It didn't work. Both Call and Betts went hitless with three strikeouts between them.

Game 6 is win-or-go-home, and Roberts has reportedly made two more last-ditch efforts to try to wake up his offense and maybe make things a little harder on the Blue Jays pitching staff.

Per Buster Olney, Betts will bat cleanup, Miguel Rojas will start just his second game of the entire postseason at second base, and Tommy Edman will move to center field. It feels safe to assume that Hernández will stay in the lineup, but move back to left field to replace Call.

It improves the Dodgers' defense basically across the board (though Rojas is known and disliked for making bizarre decisions from time to time), but it might put them at even more of a disadvantage batting Betts, who currently has a .647 OPS, at cleanup.

Dodgers move Mookie Betts to cleanup, shift Tommy Edman, add Miguel Rojas for World Series Game 6

If the fans had it our way, we'd rather see Betts hitting in the six or seven spot below Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman, Will Smith, Teoscar Hernández, Max Muncy, and maybe even Edman, who has also been bad but not quite as bad as Betts. He's become a pop up machine in this World Series, and Dodgers fans may lose their mind if they have to see him hit an infield fly for the last out of an inning with Ohtani, Freeman, and/or Smith (maybe Hernández) still on base.

Rojas is batting .300 with a .664 OPS, but it's a tiny sample size — just 10 plate appearances. He is a reverse splits guy, though, which could help the Dodgers against righty starter Kevin Gausman.

Still, it's become even more inexcusable that the Dodgers are still ignoring Hyeseong Kim, who immediately became a more effective ninth hitter in front of Ohtani when he debuted in the regular season. The Dodgers, in classic form, are going with the veteran instead.

We'll see if it works, but it certainly feels like Roberts is destined to come under fire for this.