Starting on Friday night, the Dodgers are going back to face the Padres in the two teams' last meeting of the regular season. They have a one-game lead; it's better than the one-game deficit going into the last series, but it's still sort of unacceptable that the Dodgers couldn't use their four-game set against the Rockies to pad it. Instead, they settled for a series split in a run of games that made Dodgers fans furious.
The big story from the two lost games were defense and pitching. Two misplays from Teoscar Hernández directly led to the Dodgers suffering a walk off, and then Shohei Ohtani turned in his worst start of the season so far.