Dave Roberts has been uncharacteristically critical of his team over the last two months, as the Dodgers have seen their NL West division lead — nine games on July 3 — shrink down to within three games over the past three weeks.
LA's series against the Blue Jays in early August seems to have opened the floodgates, when a cavalcade of poor defense and a failure to hit when it mattered led to an embarrassing loss in the finale. Later that month, a series split against the Rockies and a loss in the finale that came as a direct result of a Teoscar Hernández fumble in right field led to Roberts directly calling him out.