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Dodgers are blowing their bye, and hopes for deep playoff run, thanks to familiar issue

Bye-bye bye.

Hello, Dodger bullpen.

It was all so familiar. It was all so infuriating. It was the 2025 season boiled down into three hours of roars, then screams, then sighs.

The gasping, grappling Dodgers needed a three-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies this week to have any chance at a first-round bye in the upcoming playoffs.

Dodgers pitcher Anthony Banda reacts during the first inning of a loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Dodger Stadium.
Dodgers pitcher Anthony Banda reacts during the first inning of a loss to the Philadelphia Phillies at Dodger Stadium on Monday.

One game down, and their bullpen has already suffocated them.