“A loss is a loss but to get walked off never feels good,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “We didn’t play a clean game, a great game, on either side of the baseball, but we did enough to put ourselves in position to win a game. “It’s the slider,” Diaz said. The Dodgers were swept by the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs coming into Friday night’s game. “The way some of these guys are throwing, they’re not throwing great, either.”