Sound the alarms for the Dodgers, who sleepwalk into All-Star break

Wake up, boys.The Dodgers sleepwalked into the All-Star break, their final game before the four-day reprieve a 5-3 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday that sealed a humiliating series sweep at the hands of a mediocre division rival.The losses themselves weren’t the problem.This is baseball.

That happens, even against inferior opposition.And it’s not as if the Dodgers didn’t have games to spare, their lead in the National League West over the second-place Diamondbacks still at 11 ½ games.The problem was how the Dodgers dropped these games.

They were unfocused in their at-bats.They were careless on defense.

They handed the visitors opportunities as if they were promotional bobblehead dolls.“End of the day, we gave away too many bases, we didn’t play good defense, and situationally we weren’t good offensively,” manager Dave Roberts said.“You do that and you lose three.”The Dodgers’ major-league-leading 61 wins were a testament to the team’s ability to avoid performances like this.

The sudden disappearance of this defining characteristic explained Roberts’ concern gradually increased over the last several days. The team won two of three games against the last-place Colorado Rockies earlier in the week, but that’s where problems started to surface, with its previously-solid defense unraveling.A new opponent didn’t make a difference.

If anything, the Dodgers played even worse against the Diamondbacks.They committed nine errors in their last five games leading up to All-Star break, including two on Sunday.They gave up eight unearned runs in that period.The defensive lapses were magnified by the number of free passes gifted by their pitchers.

The Dodgers walked 14 batters in their three games against the Diamondbacks.They threw two wild pitches and were called for a balk in the series opener.

They hit a batter the next day.To be fair, it didn’t help that Shohei Ohtani was scratched from his start on Friday because of an irritate...