Monday night at AT&T Park was flat weird, not only because of the tropical thunderstorms that played havoc with the Dodgers-Giants series opener.
The game started after a 42-minute delay, lasted long enough for Chris Stratton to strike out Curtis Granderson, then went into another, nearly three-hour delay before the game resumed at 10:50 p.m.
But it felt even stranger that the Dodgers had come to China Basin on a 10-game losing streak and a run of 15 losses in 16 games. On Aug. 25, they led the National League West by 21 games. By the time the game resumed Monday, the lead had shrunk to 9½ games.
Manager Dave Roberts is not even hiding his players’ unease with what has been an unreal collapse for a team good enough to warrant “Are they the best ever?” articles in the Los Angeles Times and Sports Illustrated.
“Right now, they’re probably wavering a little bit,” Roberts said, “but these are the same guys we had when we played winning baseball.”
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