The Dodgers head into the All-Star break on a sour note after Arizona completed a three-game sweep Sunday with a 5-3 win, a more ordinary-looking loss than the two blowouts that came before it but still part of a weekend that never got better for Los Angeles.
Sunday did at least spare the Dodgers from another lopsided result. It did not spare them from the same problems that kept showing up all series.
Fielding mistakes were a recurring theme, and the Dodgers finished the week with nine errors over their last five games. Two more came in this one.
Andy Pages dropped a fly ball during Arizona’s two-run fifth inning, and later Max Muncy’s throw home struck a well-placed Geraldo Perdomo, helping set up the two-run sixth that put the Diamondbacks ahead for good.
That sequence wasted a strong outing from Emmet Sheehan, who struck out seven and walked one over 5 1/3 innings. He gave up three runs, though only one was earned.
The Dodgers did get an immediate spark from Shohei Ohtani, who turned the first pitch of the game into a solo homer. It was his fourth home run in six games, and he added a double as well. Ohtani finished the series with two homers against Arizona, matching Diamondbacks first baseman Tim Tawa over the weekend.
Tawa’s production was on another level. He drove in seven runs in the series, which was one fewer than the Dodgers scored as a team. That was the story of the weekend for Los Angeles.
Ryan Thompson earned the win for Arizona, improving to 4-2 after an inning with a strikeout. Edgardo Henriquez took the loss, falling to 4-1 after allowing one hit, one run and one walk in 2/3 of an inning.
The All-Star break is now here, but several Dodgers still have one more stop before the pause. They’ll be in Philadelphia for the All-Star Game on Tuesday at 5 p.m.
PT on Fox. Their next regular-season game comes Friday in The Bronx against the New York Yankees at 4:05 p.m.
PT on SportsNet LA and MLB Network.
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