Basepath blunders help end Dodgers' unbeaten run

PHILADELPHIA -- The champion commencement successful Dodgers past stays with Brooklyn.

The World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers ran themselves retired of a changeable astatine keeping their undefeated play live successful a 3-2 nonaccomplishment to the Philadelphia Phillies connected Friday that stuck them astatine 8-1 connected the season.

The Brooklyn Dodgers got disconnected to a 10-0 commencement successful 1955.

This year's Dodgers tin blasted their archetypal nonaccomplishment connected sloppy and silly baserunning.

"When you springiness a bully squad outs and shorten the game," manager Dave Roberts said, "then it's hard to win. It's hard to bushed a bully team.

Shohei Ohtani ever has the greenish airy to run, but the Dodgers superstar made the puzzling determination to effort and bargain 2nd basal with 2 outs successful the eighth inning and eight-time All-Star Mookie Betts astatine the plate.

Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto nailed him astatine 2nd to extremity the threat.

Ohtani had a 93.7 percent stolen basal occurrence complaint past season, third-best successful the majors.

"With Shohei successful that situation, you've got to marque definite you're safe," Roberts said. "Realmuto is 1 of the champion throwers successful the game. When you're down 3 with Mookie astatine the plate, you've got to marque definite you're harmless if you're going to go."

The Dodgers are champs for a reason, and wouldn't spell down easy.

Tommy Edman deed a two-run homer, his 5th already this season, with nary outs against Phillies reliever Jordan Romano to marque it 3-2, arsenic the Dodgers avoided being unopen retired for the archetypal clip since July 26. Romano past escaped connected a strike-him-out-throw-him retired treble play to extremity the game.

Pinch-hitter Max Muncy whiffed and pinch-runner Chris Taylor was retired astatine second.

"Chris, close there, took a chance," Roberts said. "Unfortunately, Realmuto made different large throw."

For added baserunning embarrassment, Andy Pages was picked disconnected to extremity the sixth inning.

"We hatred losing but I deliberation it does spell to however we play," Roberts said. "Giving those guys 3 outs connected the bases, it's hard to triumph erstwhile you play 8 innings connected the violative side. That's thing we person to cleanable up."

Realmuto has present thrown retired 3 runners successful a two-game span for the 5th clip successful his vocation and archetypal clip since 2022.

"The Ohtani 1 amazed maine a small spot conscionable due to the fact that Mookie was hitting," Realmuto said. "When Chris ran, I had a beauteous bully thought helium was going to effort to tally due to the fact that he's the tying tally and he's usually a beauteous bully stolen-base guy."

Everything had gone close for the Dodgers this season.

Ohtani deed a tiebreaking location tally successful the ninth inning connected his bobblehead night, lifting the Dodgers implicit the then-winless Atlanta Braves 6-5 connected Wednesday, giving them the champion commencement ever by a defending World Series champion. They've trailed successful 7 games this season, but they already person 2 walk-off wins. Ohtani failed to people for the archetypal clip this season.

With the Phillies up 1-0 successful the seventh, starter Jesus Luzardo got into his lone jam of the crippled erstwhile helium had 2 runners connected basal with 2 outs. Luzardo, who had his fastball humming successful the precocious 90s, got Kiké Hernández to onslaught retired swinging connected a slider to that had different sellout assemblage astatine Citizens Bank Park roaring successful celebration. Hernández fanned 3 times.

Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck retired 5 and allowed 1 unearned tally successful six innings. The unearned tally came connected his ain error. Yamamoto threw the shot into foul territory trying to prime disconnected Trea Tuner attempting to bargain 3rd successful the archetypal inning. The All-Star shortstop hustled location for a 1-0 lead.

Yamamoto tossed astatine slightest six innings without allowing an earned tally for the 4th clip successful his vocation and archetypal clip since past June against the Yankees.

Information from ESPN Research and The Associated Press was utilized successful this report.