World Series Game 4 proved Dodgers' rotation hasn't just been bailing out the bullpen

The Blue Jays made their Game 4 win over the Dodgers look too easy. LA scored first, again, on a sac fly from Kiké Hernández in the second, but Vladimir Guerrero Jr. was due for a big moment, and it came in the form of a two-run homer off Shohei Ohtani in the third.

Ohtani was pulled in the seventh after giving up a leadoff single and then a double to put runners on the corners with no outs. Then, the bullpen breakdown they managed to avoid in Game 3 happened. Anthony Banda gave up an RBI single, then an RBI groundout. Both runs were charged to Ohtani.

Guerrero was intentionally walked, then Blake Treinen gave up two more runs to confirm what Dodgers fans already knew: he shouldn't be on the World Series roster.

The Dodgers' offense scored a single run in the bottom of the ninth to bring the deficit down to four, but LA fans knew that it was over after the four-run inning.

The offense isn't clicking, and really hasn't clicked since the Wild Card. Dave Roberts said after the loss, "We haven't found our rhythm," but the Dodgers only have three more games — at most — to do so.

Dodgers' offense slumping has been just as much of a problem as their bad bullpen

Outside of Game 3, when they scored six runs, the Dodgers haven't scored more than five runs in a single game since the Wild Card round. Their wins since have been low-scoring all around, but it's far more a tribute to the Dodgers' rotation than it is to their offense. Even in Blake Snell's eight-inning effort against the Brewers in the NLCS, the Dodgers could only score two runs.

That doesn't exactly instill a lot of confidence for Game 5 and on. It's a best-of-three now, with Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, and Tyler Glasnow expected to be on the mound through the rest of the series (if a Game 7 is necessary).

The Dodgers starters' mostly very long and very effective appearances have given some leeway to the offense. If no one is scoring more than two or three runs off of the starters, the Dodgers don't need to rake. But Ohtani gave the Dodgers six innings on Tuesday, and a bad bullpen doesn't pair well with a slumping offense in the late frames.

A lineup change or two is expected in Game 5, but this isn't an isolated incident. Replacing Andy Pages at the bottom might help a little, but the rest of the Dodgers' hitters have a lot to figure out and barely any time to do it.