Just ask Clayton Kershaw. It's time for the Los Angeles Dodgers to hit the panic button.
"I hope we're panicking a little bit," Kershaw told Dylan Hernandez of the Los Angeles Times after the team recently tumbled through a season-worst five-game losing streak. "I think panic's a good thing, to a certain extent."
Surveying the league, the Dodgers are far from the only heavyweights whose wheels are starting to fall off at the worst possible moment. In the process of picking the four playoff contenders who appear to be careening toward a September collapse, an assortment of factors were taken into consideration:
- Recent play
- The remaining schedule
- The weak link(s) of the respective clubs
For some of the squads that cracked this unfortunate list, that final bullet point refers to a wobbly bullpen, an underwhelming rotation or a struggling lineup. For the Dodgers and one other club on the list, it refers to a manager who just can't seem to do anything right.
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