Los Angeles Dodgers: Two-game skid is nothing to worry about

After losing just two games in the team’s first 10 played, the Los Angeles Dodgers have lost two consecutive games to the St. Louis Cardinals.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have finally come back down to earth with two consecutive losses to the St. Louis Cardinals. Prior to the two humbling losses, the Dodgers were smashing any team in their way and were 8-2 in their first two games with a legitimate case of being good enough to be 10-0.

Of course, it is still very, very, early in the season and this was never going to be indicative of the team’s entire season. However, it was nice to see the Dodgers off to such a hot start in the first 10.

The teams that LA played were not the toughest competition and a seven-game stretch against the Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers was going to serve as the true test.

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After losing the first two, it might be a fan tendency to come way down and creep towards that pessimistic view. Again, it is a tiny sample size, but there are fans out there that believe these last two games are a better representation of the Dodgers than the first 10.

To be fair, Dodger fans are great at being realistic with the team and we cannot lump the entire fanbase into one group. However, we are here to tell those negative onlookers about why everything is going to be okay.

The main reason: stuff happens. Over the course of a 162-game season, even the best team in the league is going to lose three or four games in a row at some point. A two-game skid for the Dodgers is not all that bad.

Sure, the offense has scored a combined three runs in the last two games, which is less than the team has been scoring in some innings. That could be concerning and an eye-opener but you also have to realize the schedule this team has had and the fact that the bats were going to level out sooner or later.

The Los Angeles Dodgers have had one off-day since the season began on March 28. What did the team do on that one off-day? They traveled to Colorado to get ready for a three-game set against the Rockies.

From there, the team swept the Rockies and were unable to play a Sunday afternoon game due to the fact that they were televised as Sunday Night Baseball. Instead, the Dodgers had to play until10:30 p.m. local time and hop on an overnight flight to St. Louis, where they had another game in 19 hours.

Of course, the team was going to be sluggish and that has shown in the last two games. That is not a definitive excuse for the team but they have a pretty rough travel schedule to start the year. Consider this: after Thursday’s game they have to hop back on a plane to LA, where they have a six-game homestand that starts on Friday.

The team then has to go back to the midwest to play the Brewers in Milwaukee before finally getting another off-day on the 22nd, 18 days after their first off-day of the year. And guess what they are probably going to do on that off-day? Travel to Chicago (although short).

These guys get paid a lot of money to play a game, I get it. But there are external factors that are more than baseball that will affect a team’s performance.

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So even if the Los Angeles Dodgers lose on Wednesday, don’t panic. Everything will be alright.

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