CINCINNATI —
They had the bases loaded with no outs in the second inning. A leadoff double in the fourth. A one-out triple in the sixth.
All night Saturday, the Dodgers threatened to break the game open at Great American Ball Park. All night, they had chances to bury the Cincinnati Reds with their star-studded offense.
But at each crucial point, the team’s offense failed to deliver, continuing its recent trend of poor situational hitting to drop a fourth-straight game, 3-1, in front of a sellout crowd of 41,880.
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