In the Dodgers’ 4-3 win over the Mets on Tuesday night, Dave Roberts was pretty accurate in his assessment: “We scored just enough.”
That’s the nature of one-run wins, an area where the Dodgers haven’t had much success this season. Los Angeles’s 12 one-run wins are the fifth-fewest in baseball. On the flip side, their 11 one-run losses are the fewest in baseball, because their 23 one-run games are also the fewest.
As Confucius or Socrates or someone like that said, “The best way to not lose one-run games is to not play one-run games.