One night after pushing all the right bullpen buttons to navigate an 18-inning walk-off Game 3 win , Dave Roberts didn’t have the same deft touch Tuesday night.

Roberts earned backlash for pulling starter Shohei Ohtani in the seventh inning with men on for a pair of ineffective relievers in the 6-2 loss to the Blue Jays that evened the World Series at 2-2.

Anthony Banda and Blake Treinen allowed two inherited runners to score and two more to score to turn a 2-1 deficit into a five-run hole.

“I just don’t know how you even think of going to Treinen in this situation with the game still in reach,” popular Dodgers X account @BlakeHHarris posted .

The Dodgers’ bullpen had to cover 13 1/3 innings to outlast the Blue Jays in Game 3, which had a carryover effect into Game 4 since certain

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