Dodgers Set Dubious Record Under Manager Dave Roberts

The Los Angeles Dodgers have enjoyed plenty of success under manager Dave Roberts, but their 11-1 loss to the San Diego Padres on Tuesday night amounted to the 2025 team setting an undesirable record during his tenure.

With that blowout defeat at Petco Park, the Dodgers have now lost three games this season by at least 10 runs. According to research by ESPN Stats and Info, that’s the most double-digit losses the Dodgers have had in a single season since Roberts was hired as manager in 2016.

Their other such lopsided losses this year came in a 16-0 defeat to the Chicago Cubs at Dodger Stadium on April 12, and when they fell 11-1 to the Athletics on May 13 in a home game as well.

In addition to losing by at least 10 runs in those three games, another common thread they share is featuring a Dodgers position player pitching.

Miguel Rojas took the honors against the Cubs by pitching two innings, and he threw one in the Dodgers’ loss to the A’s. It was then Kiké Hernández’s turn in San Diego as he entered in the sixth and pitched a career-high 2.1 innings.

That came after Matt Sauer threw a career-high 111 pitches over 4.2 innings. He exited with the Padres leading 9-0.

“Every time I come and there’s an opener in front of me, I know my job is to just eat as many as I can,” Sauer said after the loss. “Obviously today, didn’t have as good of stuff but I felt like I was just out there pitching my ass off, trying to compete and eat as many innings as I could for the bullpen.”

Dodgers’ double-digit losses with Dave Roberts as manager

The Dodgers have lost at least one game by 10 or more runs in six of Roberts’ nine seasons as manager, including 2025.

They had two such losses in 2016 to the Colorado Rockies and Cincinnati Reds, one to the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2017, two in 2017 (Athletics, Houston Astros), another to the Texas Rangers in 2021, and the Cubs and San Francisco Giants in 2023.