If there is one thing clear about the 2016 Dodgers, it's that they have no real discernible pattern to their season. Well, except for the lack of offense.
But that other thing, the no rhyme nor reason to the season, that played out this week, with a three-game sweep of the division-leading Nationals, giving the Dodgers a season-best six straight wins overall. But then, facing a talented but struggling Pirates team that had lost 20 of their last 26 games, the Dodgers lost three straight games at PNC Park to complete a thoroughly unsatisfying .