When are the Dodgers waiting to clinch a National League West division or will they?
For the past three games, the Dodgers have been giving up games to teams like the Pittsburgh Pirates and San Diego Padres. That could cost them home field throughout the N.L. playoffs.
Since Sept. 26 the Dodgers could have been N.L. West champs and have been focusing on winning the N.L. but that just hasn't happen.
Now with four games left, the scenario of the Dodgers losing out and the Colorado Rockies winning out to win the N.L. west increase.
With no worries coming out of the Dodgers camp, their owner and other Los Angeles sports experts say soon the Dodgers will clinch, so please do not worry.... Right.
The Dodgers are losing to sub .500 teams with one week left in the season, and they are considered favorites to be in the world series in less than a month? Come on, give the fans a break.
The Dodgers face a lot of issues that they must address before the playoffs start that include: their pitching, defense, and offense.
Something that they didn't have a problem with all season long that has been giving them a hard time, that is their offense.
Now days the team cannot depend on Manny Ramirez to put up big numbers as he has fallen off the face of the earth after they took his steroids away.
Andre Either, Matt Kemp, and James Loney are all inconsistent, which is a bad sign since these are their main core of their batting line.
Pitching has been a headache all season, so all you have to do is hope whoever is pitching, can give you a chance to stay in the game.
Lastly their defense has been slacking off, they either are not focus or just not giving it all this last week. But the way their defense is going, I don't see them going far in the playoffs.
On a last note, the Dodgers need to go back in the month of May and see what they are not doing now.
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