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"For me, you're just trying to find dependable players. And that's where we're at," Roberts said. "These are all meaningful games on the margins. Everything matters. And there's a lot of things you can look at tonight on the run prevention side that we just weren't good at. As you start playing important games - and these are important games - they show themselves. They always find a way to show themselves."

Alex Freeland was optioned back to the Minors in order to add Rortvedt to the Dodgers' active roster. His call-up became necessary in the wake of Will Smith being hit in the right hand by a foul ball. An X-ray came back negative but Smith is undergoing at CT scan and may not be available for the rest of the Dodgers' road trip. Rortvedt took the 40-man spot vacated by the Díaz DFA.

The Dodgers are going to select catcher Ben Rortvedt to their roster, reports Fabian Ardaya of The Athletic. That's to give the club another catcher for the next few days as it's unlikely will play this weekend. Ardaya noted earlier that Dalton Rushing will start tonight, so Rortvedt will presumably back him up while Smith rests. Corresponding moves will be required to add Rortvedt to the active and 40-man rosters.

It's really remarkable how they find ways to disappoint at this juncture, but the Dodgers have dropped another series to a sub-.500 team after a 3-0 loss to the Pirates, and they're in major danger of being swept tomorrow. More frustrating is the way it happened, as they went 0-for-7 with RISP. They stranded the bases loaded with nobody out in the 2nd, the bases loaded again with two outs in the 3rd,

Thank God that we kept this stadium. You go to a lot of new ballparks, but they don't have what we have. It's special. You know who you're sitting next to. We're never going to solve the parking thing, so let's not talk about it. We can't solve it. Every minute that we're in the car, it's worth it when we get here and watch this game.

Edman's positional versatility was one of the factors that drew the Dodgers' interest and prompted their involvement in what became a three-team trade with the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago White Sox last year. However, lingering right ankle trouble has limited Edman's time in center field this season. He largely played second base to begin the year before the Dodgers felt comfortable enough Edman's ankle could withstand the demands of roaming the outfield.

For a while on Tuesday night, in a series opener against the perpetually rebuilding Pittsburgh Pirates, the Dodgers showed fight. Clayton Kershaw gave up four runs in an ugly first inning, but the lineup clawed its way back to even the score - thanks, in part, to a 120-mph rocket of a home run from Shohei Ohtani in the third, his 46th of the season and 100th as a Dodger and a tying solo blast from Andy Pages in the fourth.

The Los Angeles Dodgers had the day off on Monday, and traveled to Pittsburgh for a three-game series with the 61-77 Pirates. Left-handed pitcher Clayton Kershaw (9-2, 3.06 ERA) is taking the mound for LA against right-handed Carmen Mlodzinski (3-7, 3.86 ERA). More news: Former Dodgers Standout Pitcher Leaving MLB At End of 2025 Season The Dodgers made two additions to the roster on Monday, activating right-handed pitcher Michael Kopech and infielder Hyeseong Kim as their two September call ups.

We haven't gone through the rotation yet for the next 10 days, which is going to be kind of hard if you're looking at off days and things like that, so we're talking through that right now. Certainly, we have a lot of stability. Especially with Shohei built up and expect to get him through five [Wednesday]. The guys are throwing the baseball really well and I know our 'pen is in a good spot too.

"I know that the guys understand where we're at as far as the opportunity we have," Roberts said. "And yeah, I would expect them to take it and run and seize the opportunity, without me having to kind of bring it to light. I mean, it's right there. This is a great opportunity that we have, and you got to embrace it. You got to want to be out there. You got to have fun competing. And it just seems like the last couple nights, at some points it was an unrecognizable ballclub. We still got a lot of talent. We're still in a decent spot, but we've got to go play. We got to play better. We do."

"I just think we didn't, we haven't - I just don't think we've put in the focus," Roberts said. "To be quite honest, I just don't think we had the urgency or focus that we needed to have. That's just the bottom line - because when the standings started to get interesting then our guys certainly have ramped up their quality of at-bat. The offensive performance has ticked up."

We're running a six-man rotation, they're getting extra rest, My thought is to push them more, but the situation has got to call for it and they've got to allow for me to give them that opportunity. You look at [Aug. 11], I couldn't have given Yoshi more. Those are things that in a perfect world, I'd love to give him an extra inning. Absolutely.