Dodgers Manager Concedes Team’s High Expectations ‘Takes The Fun Out Of It’

The Los Angeles Dodgers go into Tuesday with a record of 83-55, the very best record in Major League Baseball.

Seeing the Dodgers on top of the baseball world was anticipated as soon as the company dedicated more than $1 billion in future incomes to gamers this previous offseason. With that kind of cash and greater expectations, a kid’s video game ended up being a lot more severe.

“It takes the fun out of it a little bit,” supervisor Dave Roberts stated to Barry M. Bloom of Sportico.

The power of the Dodgers’ lineup was on display screen throughout the four-game weekend series in Phoenix versus the Arizona Diamondbacks. Shohei Ohtani, Mookie Betts, and Freddie Freeman opened Saturday night’s contest with back-to-back-to-back solo crowning achievement.

It was the very first time in the club’s history this had actually taken place, going back to their Brooklyn days. The Dodgers signed up with the National League in 1890.

Roberts is lucky to handle a group whose ownership has actually pumped this much cash into its payroll.

“You have good players, and they have to perform,” he stated. “They earn a great salary and some of these guys are stars for a reason. It’s up to those guys to lead us and that’s what they’re doing.”

On Sunday afternoon, the Diamondbacks destroyed the Dodgers, resulting in speculation about what Roberts might have, would have, or need to have done in a different way to avoid it. Los Angeles turned the script on Monday to take the series and guarantee a tiebreaker in its favor if the 2 groups were to in some way complete the season with similar records.

The Dodgers understand all too well how the playoffs work. For more than a years, they have actually controlled the National League West however just have one World Series title to reveal for it. Last season, it was the D-backs who had the ultimate victory.

Still, the Dodgers got in the 2024 season as the favorites to beat the D-backs in their own department.

“We just know we need to be better in certain areas to compete,” D-backs supervisor Torey Lovullo stated. “We embrace that challenge. We live in that space.”

Once the postseason starts, what took place throughout the routine season is gone.

Roberts is aware of this, stating “We have to do better. We’re just trying to win as many games as we can and figure it out from there.”

The distinction this year will be Ohtani, who will play in his very first profession postseason video game in simply a matter of weeks.

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