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Dodgers' bullpen allows Rockies to get away in 4-3 loss

DENVER - Dave Roberts has crafted a preferred euphemism for the challenges inherent to managing the Los Angeles Dodgers. Too many useful contributors to fit on a 25-man roster? Too many quality pitchers for a five-man rotation? Too many talented hitters to squeeze into one lineup?

All fall under the same banner for Roberts: "High-class problems."

Over this weekend at Coors Field, which finished with a 4-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies, a simpler but more sinister issue arose: not enough competent relievers.

"This is an actual, everyday problem," Roberts said. "A blue-collar problem."

The organization moved to solve it in

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