Matt Moore entered Wednesday night’s deciding game with high hopes to establish some sort of dominance before the season’s over.
Once again, he’ll have to wait.
After lasting just 4.1 innings and surrounding four runs, five hits and three walks to a boisterous Dodgers’ lineup, Moore’s evaded his sixth win on the year and instead settled on his 14th loss — another building block on a tower of season-long frustration for the left-hander.
“It’s just not fun,” Moore said after Wednesday’s loss. “Winning cures everything. We haven’t done a whole of that this year. You can say what you want but I only throw every fifth day. To put us in that type of situation in the fifth inning, it feels like I let us down at a time where we’ve had enough of that.”
After a 32-pitch first inning, Moore maneuvered through the damage and escaped with just a 2-0 deficit. He crafted his way through errors in the second inning, but his ultimate demise came on a Cody Bellinger two-run blast into McCovey Cove for his 37th home run of the year.
“For me I think it was falling behind to Turner and giving up a double,” he said. “I probably should’ve ran the ball off the plate a couple times to Bellinger and take my chances.”
“That was a pretty big mistake,” he added. “If we keep it to two runs right there, I like our chances.”