The Dodgers still have a considerable stretch of tough regular season games in front of them, but spoiled two back-to-back opportunities to dominate last-place teams (they were swept by the Pirates and then dropped a series against the Orioles). Since then, they've rebounded a bit.
It's been a weird, weird week for Dodger baseball. Emmet Sheehan took a perfect game bid into the sixth a day after Tyler Glasnow and the Dodgers' combined no-hit attempt was broken up in the ninth, which in turn happened just two days after Yoshinobu Yamamoto's no-hitter was broken up through 8 2/3 innings and Blake Treinen and Tanner Scott combusted to lose the game despite a three-run LA lead.