Source: www.ocregister.com --- Saturday, April 28, 2018
SAN FRANCISCO –Thirteen hours after the players reported to the ballpark to play seven hours’ worth of Baseball, a light rain briefly fell on AT&T Park Saturday night. No doubt Dave Roberts could have found a silver lining even in those clouds. “It’s a tough month for us,” the Dodgers manager said after his team split Saturday’s doubleheader with the San Francisco Giants, once again failing to gain any positive traction on this season. “The solace is that no one’s making excuses and we’re playing hard. Guys are trying to make pitches. It’s just not happening right now. That’s encouraging. It really is.” Roberts might land on the DL with a strained oblique reaching for positive signs in the fact that “no one’s making excuses” about the way the Dodgers have underachieved over the past month. But he insists there is value in that “when you’re playing and you’re getting beat and you’re not playing up to your abilities but you’re looking at yourself in the mirror and saying, ‘We’ve got to get better’ as opposed to making excuses about why you’re not winning.” That’s just as well — it would be hard to pin things down to one explanation. Saturday was another example of the Dodgers showing progress only to slide back into sluggish play. In the first game, the Dodgers’ offense pounded the Giants for season-highs in hits (20) and runs, backing Walker Buehler in a 15-6 defeat. But in the second game, the Dodgers went quietly, managing just ...
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