LOS ANGELES – The Dodgers’ bullpen is like your wifi connection. You only notice it when it doesn’t work.
The relief corps had quietly gone over a week (19 1/3 innings) without allowing an earned run, stranding all 12 inherited runners along the way, before Dave Roberts pulled Sunday’s starter Alex Wood after six strong innings.
A tie game didn’t stay that way. The St. Louis Cardinals scored three times in the seventh inning and avoided a sweep at Dodger Stadium with a 5-2 victory over the Dodgers Sunday night.
Wood turned in what has become his typically strong start at home, holding the Cardinals to just one run (a solo home run by Jeremy Hazelbaker) on three hits, a walk and a hit batter in his six innings.