Dodgers power outage goes on in another listless loss to Cardinals

ST.LOUIS –– Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he had a “good feeling” about his slumping offense at the start of a six-game road trip Friday afternoon.“The road, ironically, has been better for us,” he insisted. By the end of the night, however, that theory couldn’t have felt less true.En route to losing three straight games for the first time this year, the Dodgers star-studded lineup remained ice cold in a 7-2 defeat to the St.

Louis Cardinals, managing just seven hits against a Cardinals pitching staff with the fifth-worst team ERA in the majors.For a fourth-straight game, the Dodgers (20-12) failed to hit a home run, the longest homer drought for the club since June 2023.And the few times they did get runners aboard, they couldn’t capitalize, going 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position while leaving eight men stranded on base.“I don’t have an answer for tonight,” Roberts said.

“Obviously, they got big hits.There were some line drives that were right at guys.

But in total, they swung the bat better than we did.We didn’t play well enough.”It didn’t help that, early on Friday, the Cardinals (19-13) jumped out to a 3-0 first-inning lead against Emmet Sheehan. Still, for a Dodgers team that has invested more than $1 billion into its batting order in recent years, this recent slump is starting to grow maddening.

They initially got on the board Friday via a Max Muncy RBI double in the second.But after that, they scored just one more time, failed to record another extra-base hit until Hyeseong Kim’s double with two outs in the ninth, and slipped to 5-8 in their last 13 games –– having scored four runs or fewer eight times in that stretch.“It’s been hard,” outfielder Teoscar Hernández said.

“Obviously, we don’t want to start the season the way we have started.But we have done a lot of work.

Everybody knows this is not easy, hitting, being consistent.We just have to go up there trying to have good at-bats.

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