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- Updated: September 28, 2016
SAN DIEGO — If the 157th game of the season for the Dodgers on Tuesday night looked more like a late Spring Training tryout for roster spots, well, it was.
Even though the Dodgers are alive for the home-field advantage in the National League Division Series against Washington, Dave Roberts managed the Dodgers’ 7-1 loss to the Padres in a way that put certain players who are on the bubble in the kind of situations they might see in October.
Consider the contrasting plights of pitchers Alex Wood and Louis Coleman. Rough times for Coleman continued, as he walked Wil Myers and Yangervis Solarte in the eighth inning before serving up a grand slam to Hunter Renfroe, who had already slugged a three-run homer off Kenta Maeda in the first.
“We’ve seen Coleman in spots be very good, at other times, not so good,” said Roberts. “In that situation, as we see what we have with guys going forward, I wanted to see him get out a middle of the order bat, but he walks Myers and Solarte and gets to the No. 5 hitter and he gives up a home run. It comes down to Louis has got to make pitches.”
The middle innings that Coleman …
