The Dodgers put up 12, and that Cubs 10-game winning streak? Gone — basically in one loud, game-flipping inning.
This is Dodgers Today. Coming up: last night’s statement win, a couple of farm-system notes worth flagging, and a lineup tweak fans are already chewing on.
Yeah. Let’s get to the good stuff.
Absolutely — and we have to start with that fourth inning.
From Bastillepost:
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Roki Sasaki earned his second major league victory and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied with six runs in the fourth inning to beat the Cubs 12-4 on Saturday night, snapping Chicago's 10-game winning streak.
That is how you end somebody’s streak. Not sneaking by, not hanging on late — six runs in an inning and a final score that basically says, stop talking to us about momentum.
Over on Reddit, r/Dodgers had a very specific favorite part:
PCA striking out 4 times today vs the Dodgers is music to my ears.
I mean, that is elite box-score pettiness. Four strikeouts from a dangerous opposing bat in a blowout? Dodgers fans are absolutely allowed to enjoy a little golden sombrero music.
And another r/Dodgers commenter took the victory lap even further:
Golden sombrero, NOBLETIGER, and whiffed fly ball for PCA. Thanks baseball gods.
That is the full baseball misery sampler. Golden sombrero, NOBLETIGER, and a whiffed fly ball in the same night? If you’re the Cubs, you delete the tape. If you’re the Dodgers, you frame it.
One more from r/Dodgers, because this one pretty much captured the mood:
Offense heard us talking shit about Roki and decided to play out of their minds on his bobblehead night.
Bobblehead-night run support is not an official stat, but Roki will absolutely take it. The offense changed the whole feel of that game — even if, yes, Sasaki still has some things to clean up beyond the win column.
Now, down on the rehab front, here’s Eric Stephen at True Blue LA:
Brock Stewart loaded the bases but pitched a scoreless sixth inning with two strikeouts for Triple-A Oklahoma City on Friday night, his second game for the Comets and fourth minor league rehab appearance so far. The right-hander induced four swinging strikes among his 15 pitches. Stewart has pitched on either two or three days rest thus far, pitching on Tuesday and Friday both last week with Class-A Ontario and this week for Oklahoma City.
That sounds like a bullpen arm knocking pretty loudly. Yeah, the baserunners make it a little messy — but four swinging strikes in 15 pitches? That’s the part the Dodgers are going to circle.
And on the lineup side, from Readers:
Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts moved Kyle Tucker to the fourth spot in the batting order during a 3-0 victory against the San Francisco Giants. The move is seen as a tactical move to alleviate pressure on Tucker, who had a slow start to the 2026 season with a ground-ball rate of nearly 43 percent and a whiff rate of 5 percent compared to last year.
That’s the kind of small move managers make when a player is too important to sit and too good to overreact to. If Kyle Tucker starts squaring balls up, people call it smart managing. If he doesn’t, that Dodgers “good problem” gets a little noisier.
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