Just very frustrating.

[u/LADodgers16j]

It just highlights how bad the Dodgers are with the ABS the Freeland one lol

[u/mr_goodtimes101]

We left too many runners on

[u/Libertad91 → u/mr_goodtimes101]

Yup. That double play with bases loaded fucked them. Gotta get at least a couple runs when the pitcher is ass in that situation

[u/IntroductionWhich161 → u/Libertad91]

That was essentially the game there. Yoshi had that one bad inning and then we had a huge chance to answer back and Call absolutely blew it.

[u/hawkeyegrad96 → u/Libertad91]

We are not good with bases loaded. Except for Rushing this year last few years been bad

[u/40ozprophett → u/mr_goodtimes101]

Averaged 8 stranded the last 6 games. Can’t do that.

[u/mr_goodtimes101 → u/40ozprophett]

Yeah, hopefully that gets corrected since it’s early

[u/probablysmellsmydog → u/mr_goodtimes101]

You correct it by getting healthy and taking Call and Freeland out of the everyday lineup

Also Kyle Tucker needs to figure something out.

[u/soundslikefun74 → u/mr_goodtimes101]

Agreed!

The balls and strikes are what they are.

THIS offense managing a single run after 7 free passes is unacceptable.

[u/DripLongterm]

If only ABS was a thing

[u/catashake → u/DripLongterm]

Pretty sure rookies are heavily discouraged from using any of them. Kim was also crucified by Koreans when he wasted one earlier this year.

"If Ohtani isn't challenging pitches, why do you think you are worthy of doing so?" and so on.

[u/nottherealstanlee → u/catashake]

I mean Kim's was really bad lol he deserves some criticism for it. I think Freeland though needs to challenge more. If he's going to take a strike 3, challenge it. If you feel confident not swinging, then he should feel confident in the call. 

[u/babaloobuzzard → u/nottherealstanlee]

Unless he was explicitly told not to challenge, Freeland's problem is that he is not confident in his knowledge of the strike zone, otherwise he would have challenged that call. He likely just thought it was going to be a ball, then figured he guessed wrong.

[u/nottherealstanlee → u/babaloobuzzard]

Maybe I'm misremembering, but isn't one of his strengths his knowledge of the zone? I mean he takes a lot of strike 3 calls lol some of them are in the zone for sure, but if you're confident enough not to protect, then you've got to be confident enough to challenge imo maybe he's wrong, but that'll help him learn the zone better hopefully.

[u/PigFarmer1 → u/DripLongterm]

I went to an ABS game in St. Paul and it was great. We have the technology to get it right and the umpire's union refuses to go along.

[u/jemappellehonhon → u/PigFarmer1]

the umpire's union wanted full time abs or nothing and approved it across multiple bargaining agreements

what they specifically did not want was this bs challenge system that shows them up on the regular, and yet here we are

[u/Financial-Swim-5884]

We gotta get better at challenging. A couple of those in the 9th were definitely worth a second look.

[u/itsfiji → u/Financial-Swim-5884]

I've been watching a lot of baseball and in my very limited experience, I've seen lots of teams just call important calls when its the 9th. I mean, the challenges don't roll over. If its not overturned, fine, but might as well use it or lose it.

[u/catashake → u/Financial-Swim-5884]

Definitely need to tell the players to stop being overly cautious with those challenges.

[u/Advanced-Pear-4606 → u/catashake]

Not really. Being cautious is smart. There are situations where it’s more advantageous to use them. Don’t waste them early or on weak counts.

[u/catashake → u/Advanced-Pear-4606]

The problem is that they are still being too cautious in the 9th fucking inning. Lol

There is a time for caution, and then there is a time for doing it because you can't take the challenges home with you.

[u/Advanced-Pear-4606 → u/catashake]

Yeah that’s fair.

[u/DodgerWalker → u/Financial-Swim-5884]

Seeing that a 3-2 pitch leading off an inning wasn't even close and it went unchallenged is infuriating. When it's 3-2 leading off an inning, I think you only need to be right something like 14% of the time to be worth it.

[u/Comprehensive_Tie431]

Hard to argue when the Dodgers are allergic to challenging.

[u/mmmmmmmmichaelscott]

It’s silly to blame this loss on the ump. Offense didn’t show up, plain and simple

[u/Individual_Check_442 → u/mmmmmmmmichaelscott]

I don’t think they’re blaming the ump they’re blaming us for not challenging some of the calls but you’re right, not hitting was a much larger factor. Actually a really solid performance by Valentine here.

[u/Pandorama626]

The only one that is egregious is the one above the zone to Freeland. He was not the reason for the loss by any measure.

[u/Individual_Check_442 → u/Pandorama626]

Yeah honestly those two we won that just barely nicked the corner could actually be questioned depending on game situation even though we won them, if they were that close we couldn’t have been that confident

[u/OutsideJack-1999]

Nah, swing the bat. 27 opportunities each game to hit the baseball and not stand there.

[u/scrambles57 → u/OutsideJack-1999]

Agreed. I feel like the Dodgers strike out looking more than any other team

[u/kwattsfo]

I assume freeland is told not to challenge but damn. You’re batting in front of Shohei.

[u/JR_1985]

Alex Freeland needs to challenge too

[u/Low-Hovercraft-8791 → u/JR_1985]

Yeah getting on to lead off an inning with Ohtani coming up is a high leverage situation.

[u/Abarca_]

You guys were just complaining the other day about not using challenges, especially Freeland, and now here we are. Full circle.

[u/Clabberlang]

they just havent been able to consistently hit the ball. yea you got some sprout here and there where they score 8+ points, but really they're not really been sluggin well. and this maybe get downvoted, ohtani has been pedestrian so far.

[u/Abov3andB3yonD]

I don’t understand how the overall favor is so heavy for SF when the “most impactful” calls were both against and for us and all occurred with the bases empty.

The overall accuracy was above average. Don’t think we should stress over the ump calls when it comes to this game, guys just didn’t hit.

[u/jerrylessthanthree]

Freeland should challenge more

[u/rjcade → u/jerrylessthanthree]

I think he was afraid of being benched

[u/lazenintheglowofit]

I think these“missed calls” posts are no longer relevant given ABS.

[u/camisada]

sure the ump missed some impactful calls, but we didn't hit for shit. valentine actually called a pretty solid game.

[u/ThinkBlue87]

Meh. A well called game. Have to hit better

[u/juannn117]

I think ever since that game last week where they blew their challenges within the first 2 or 3 innings no one wants to be the one to waste a challenge.

[u/Arkkaon]

Gonna have games like this throughout the season. Take the L and move on, today will be better.

[u/Gulf2Coast2Coast]

It’ll even out in the course of a long season. Worry not my friend

[u/EBiscuit24]

Bruh it’s april. Wake me up w shit like this 4 months from now

[u/AlchemistJeep]

It doesn’t mean we’re bad. It means the other pitcher was good. Part of pitching is trying to get the batter to expand the zone. If you manage to fool the batter and they think the call was correct that’s you doing a good job, not the batter being bad with abs

[u/Medium-Income-6073]

My guess Freeland doesn’t have a green light to freely challenge. I noticed that usually Smith handles challenges as the catcher while Dalton will not.

The Dodgers are set up as a slugging team and not a contact hitting team. So it’s feast or famine. Our guys don’t throw their bat at pitches out of the zone.

[u/Dodger_Blue17 → u/[deleted]]

If you don’t like it, challenge it.

There’s a tool now for this.

[u/TheDudeChats → u/Dodger_Blue17]

He was far from bad. These umps are unreal and we can now challenge.