ARLINGTON, Texas —
October came early this year for Dave Roberts.
With the Dodgers dropping six of their final seven games before the All-Star break, the annual scapegoating of Roberts started three months ahead of schedule.
The postgame talk show on the team’s flagship station always fields complaints about the manager when the Dodgers lose, but the volume of such calls increased last week. Other fans vented on social media.
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This was news to Shohei Ohtani, who described his relationship with Roberts as “wonderful.”
“I think he’s a manager who has a lot of conversations with players individually,” Ohtani said in Japanese earlier this week.