"This is my personal opinion. I feel like ever since we started playing poorly a couple months ago, the pressure and frustration has been building up on the team. And I don't see anybody smiling and having a good time. We all know, when you're losing baseball games it's not that fun. But I feel like we have to find a way to put everything in perspective."
In six scoreless innings, Skenes was his typically dominant self. Already the major-league ERA leader entering the night, the second-year right-hander stuck out eight batters, gave up just two hits, escaped his only real threat by stranding a pair of two-out baserunners in the third inning, and simply overpowered the Dodgers with a seven-pitch repertoire headlined by his upper-90s mph sidearm fastball.