Even as his team entered perhaps its most crucial stretch of the season, Dave Roberts said he wouldn’t be managing the Dodgers any differently this week.
Given the way the club has been playing of late, he really didn’t need to.
With a 6-3 defeat of the Baltimore Orioles on Thursday night, the Dodgers continued their surge through August, taking a three-game series against a fellow World Series contender while also moving four games clear of the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League West standings, matching their largest division lead in the last three weeks.