Winning five out of seven from the division rival Giants, with them on the precipice of making the playoffs, sounds a heck of a lot better than what really happened on Sunday, another bullpen meltdown (this time by Blake Treinen, who gave up three runs in the top of the eighth inning to ruin the Dodgers' 1-0 lead and waste seven scoreless innings from Emmet Sheehan.
The Giants' playoff chances may be bleak, but so too are the Dodgers' 2025 playoff chances when formerly steady hands like Treinen--or Tanner Scott, or Kirby Yates, or Michael Kopech, among others--have been hopeless here in late September.