After a burning start to the season, Los Angeles Dodgers will look to be snapped out of a cold enchantment on Tuesday night when they visit Washington Nationals.
Los Angeles started the season with eight straight wins but then lost three out of four matches, including Monday’s 6-4 defeat against Washington in the opener of the series.
After the club’s trip to the White House earlier in the day to celebrate last season’s World Series victory, Dodger’s careless defense and poor relief management were shown in the loss.
Shohei Ohtani was a double shy to hit the bike and launched his fourth Homer of the season, but Los Angeles made two errors and handed over a three-run seventh round to citizens.
“Our guys go out there and prepare to win and prepare to play well,” said Dodger Manager Dave Roberts. “It seems like every night there are some things basically that we just don’t play clean baseball. … We just have to keep playing, keep preparing and we will have a good time.”
Ohtani’s slag average jumped to .311 with his three-hit performance on Monday. Will Smith (.400) rises the team at the plate, while Tommy Edman leads Los Angeles in Homers by five.
Making your season debut at Haugen on Tuesday will be 24-year-old left-hander Justin Wroblski, which was called from Triple-A Oklahoma City before the series opener.
Wrobleski knocked out three over 5 2/3 speechless innings in his lonely smaller league start last Tuesday. He went 1-2 with a 5.70 era in eight performances (six starts) last season for Dodgers and has not yet met the citizens of his young career.
Washington has won three games in a row after starting the season with a 1-6 record.
The start button Mackenzie Gore threw six rounds of two-run ball at Los Angeles powerful assortment on Monday, and James Wood joined a two-Run Homer for citizens, who knew they had to lead their best against the defending champions.
“It was good,” said Washington Manager Dave Martinez after the game. “They are always good when you get out on top, but the game was played really well. Knowing that Dodgers came to town you have to play sharp baseball, and we were really good.”
The key citizens’ time for early season has rotated three wins in a row.
Washington’s Brad Lord (0-0, 4.50 era) will make its first career start on Tuesday after three performances from Bullpen during their first week plus as a large Leaguer.
Lord, 25, failed to record one out in his MLB debut on March 30 against Philadelphia Phillies, but he worked two speechless innings in Toronto in the following series.
Lord was an 18th round of draft 2022 of the franchise and made the opening day list after making 25 starts in the smaller leagues a season ago.
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