The Dodgers bullpen continued its nightmare finish to the season, blowing a 4-0 lead over the final three innings in a loss to the Diamondbacks on Tuesday night at Chase Field in Phoenix, wasting incredible games by Shohei Ohtani on the mound and Teoscar Hernández at the plate.
The loss dropped the Dodgers’ lead over the Padres to 1 1/2 games in the National League West, and kept the magic number at three for Los Angeles to clinch the division. But right now the magic number is anything that doesn’t make the bullpen phone ring.
With the Dodgers up four runs after the sixth inning, Arizona got to work right away against the weakest link in the Dodgers chain, first scoring a run with a single and double against Jack Dreyer, who got the first two outs of the seventh inning. In came Edgardo