Since last Friday, when the Dodgers beat the Padres 11-6, they have played five more games and scored one less run than they did in Friday’s game. When you average two runs a game, you are certain to have a sub .500 record and the Dodgers are 2-3 in those games. It’s a testament to their pitching that they have won any of those games. They won one game 2-0 and the other 1-0. The only games they have won in this streak were shutouts.
Striker Buehler (and it really is “Striker”, because he did not walk anyone) was very good, but he had to be perfect and he wasn’t.