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Sloppy Dodgers waste three homers, lose fourth in a row to Cardinals

ST. LOUIS - Los Angeles Dodgers manager Dave Roberts succinctly summarized his club's performance Thursday minutes after the Dodgers, four days after swaggering into Missouri behind a mountain of momentum, were sent tottering back to Southern California following a jolting four-game sweep at the hands of the St. Louis Cardinals.

"This is the first game," Roberts said, "where I felt that on the pitching side, really, across the board, the defensive side, we just didn't play well."

Unlike their first three losses at Busch Stadium this week, when they were held to five runs, the Dodgers (8-6)

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