Dodgers need better results vs. southpaws

NEW YORK — Next week or next month, it shouldn’t matter too much to the Dodgers that they didn’t score off CC Sabathia Tuesday night in a 3-0 loss to the Yankees at Yankee Stadium.

It shouldn’t matter, except that it sort of does, for the simple reason that Sabathia throws left-handed. The Dodgers won’t see him again unless these two teams meet in the World Series, but they sure will see more left-handers. If they can’t break the pattern that continued Tuesday, well, that’s a problem.

“We’ve got to do a better job when it comes to the playoffs,” first baseman Adrian Gonzalez said. “That’s it.”

The Dodgers have the lowest batting average against lefties (.214) in the Majors. Three of the last four times they’ve been shut out, it has happened in a game where the opposing starter was left-handed. For the season, they’re 20 games over .500 (63-43) when the opponent starts a right-hander, and two games under .500 (18-20) when a lefty shows up, with six of those 20 losses ending as shutouts.

There’s a pattern, and it’s not a good enough answer to say they’ve had some success against the Giants’ Madison …

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