For Los Angeles Dodgers fans, seeing either Blake Treinen or Tanner Scott come into a ballgame might make them nervous. They had plenty of reasons to feel that way on Friday night.
Scott followed Treinen to the mound in the bottom of the 10th inning at Oracle Park as the Dodgers faced off against the San Francisco Giants. When Patrick Bailey stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded, all he needed to try and do was either get a hit or a sacrifice fly.
Well, he did more than that. Scott threw Bailey a chest-high pitch and Bailey didn't miss it. He hit the ball into the left-field stands, sending Giants fans into a frenzy and giving red-hot San Francisco a 5-1 victory.
It's another setback for the Dodgers, who have been trying their best to stay in the National League West Division lead. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts made the call to the bullpen after Treinen wasn't able to get the Giants out in the 10th.
Scott just came on and handed the Giants a win. Before Bailey's homer, though, it looked like he had struck out Jung Ho Lee. But the home plate umpire checked the ball for a scuff mark after he thought Lee fouled the ball off and wasn't caught by Dodgers catcher Ben Rortvedt. Well, the umpire extended Lee's at-bat and Scott ended up walking him on the very next pitch.
Replays clearly showed, though, that Rortvedt actually caught the ball.
That set the scene for Bailey's heroics and sent Dodgers fans off to share their angst on social media.
The Giants are now a half-game out of an NL Wild Card spot. As for the Dodgers, they are still 2 1/2 games up on the San Diego Padres, who lost to the Colorado Rockies 4-2 on Friday night. The Padres had a chance to gain a game on Los Angeles with the win, but the NL's worst team got the better of them.
Third baseman Max Muncy was hit by a pitch on his right hand or wrist and was pulled from the game. Muncy's status for Saturday's game against San Francisco wasn't clear right after the ballgame.
Michael Conforto hit a solo home run in the top of the seventh inning, tying the game at 1-1.
Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was out of sight again.
He went seven innings and allowed just one run in the first inning. Yamamoto struck out 10 Giants and gave up just one hit. Again, Yamamoto was lights-out for the Dodgers in a must-needed victory.
Giants starter Justin Verlander also went seven innings and allowed just one earned run on Conforto's homer. He allowed four Dodgers hits and struck out four in another stellar start for San Francisco.
It's got to be frustrating for Dodgers fans to see the bullpen not able to keep the team in a ballgame late. Scott's problems have been well documented, especially when he was not able to secure a win for Los Angeles against the Baltimore Orioles.
That was the game where Yamamoto pitched 8 2/3 innings of no-hit ball before Baltimore's Jackson Holliday hit a solo homer in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Roberts will face more questions over his bullpen decisions. The bullpen situation might be the Dodgers' downfall if they are not careful.