Dave Roberts has been pretty good in his first season as manager, but the way he managed the game on Tuesday nearly cost the Dodgers their season. That’s probably an oversimplification, but Roberts did not have a good day managing, and it began and ended with his handling of Clayton Kershaw.
I was on record saying I’d have started Julio Urias instead of Kershaw, but it wasn’t that big a deal. After a shaky start to the game, the Dodgers getting five innings out of Kershaw would have been great news.