The Dodgers’ pitching situation got worse this weekend after manager Dave Roberts announced Saturday that star right-hander Tyler Glasnow will likely miss the rest of the season.

But in the team’s two consecutive losses to the Atlanta Braves at Truist Park, the team’s performance on the field was not much better.

“Overall, this is not clean baseball,” manager Dave Roberts said. “This is not the baseball I normally see, but the baseball we normally play.”

On Saturday night, the Dodgers couldn’t do much right in a 10-1 loss that didn’t even feel that close.

Jack Flaherty, who has held the de facto No. 1 position in the rotation since being signed at the trade deadline, had his worst start on the Dodgers’ blue team, allowing four runs in an 83-pitch game that ended after the third inning.

The Dodgers’ defense was not much help. Due to errors and missed opportunities on the field, the Braves managed a three-run rally in the second inning (81-67) and a six-run outrun in the sixth inning.

And continuing their recent decline at the plate, the team offered little resistance to National League Cy Young favorite Chris Sale, allowing just seven hits in the seventh of nine games in which they scored fewer than five runs.

“You know it’s going to be a tough battle,” said outfielder Mookie Betts about the game against Sale, who allowed just one run in six innings. “I just didn’t put a lot of pressure on him.”

Flaherty’s problems were particularly concerning for the Dodgers (87-61) on Saturday, especially given his increasing importance as one of only two top pitchers currently available to the club (along with Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who recently returned from a shoulder injury).

Flaherty had trouble with his control from the start, allowing one run in the first inning with 27 pitches. In the second inning with 18 pitches, he had to avoid a double with two outs. In the third inning with 38 pitches, he got little help from behind.

Jorge Soler opened the period with a double to right and hit a deep fly ball that Betts couldn’t catch as he ran to right.

“I just missed it, man,” Betts said. “I just went after it and missed it, misjudged it.”

Then, after a walk to Marcell Ozuna, Flaherty chose a possible double play ball that Miguel Rojas kicked at shortstop, making only one out at second base.

This set the stage for the decisive hit. After Jarred Kelenic walked to load the bases, Orlando Arcia found the gap in right-center field for a three-run double that cleared the bases.

After tying the game in the previous half-inning with Betts’ RBI single, the Dodgers suddenly found themselves down 4-1.

“We tied Sale, who has been really, really good all year, and you want to go out there and throw a shutdown inning,” Flaherty said. “And I didn’t do that.”

Flaherty finished the third inning – but not before allowing another walk, his fourth of the night, a season-high – but could not advance, stumbling into his first start of fewer than five innings all season.

In eight starts with the Dodgers, he is 5-2 with a 3.25 ERA.

“Was in the zone, didn’t really attack the guys, didn’t do the little things right,” Flaherty said. “Let’s put this behind us and move on to the next one as quickly as possible.”

Freddie Freeman batted fourth for the Dodgers against the Braves on Saturday.

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After a pregame lineup switch of Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernández—with Hernández batting third and Freeman batting fourth for the first time as a Dodger—Hernández ended the first inning with a poor baserunning decision: He was thrown out at third base while attempting to turn a double into a triple with two outs.

“Baserunning changed the dynamic a little bit in the first inning,” Roberts said. “So that’s atypical.”

The same was true of the Dodgers’ high-flying offense, which never really got going.

Kiké Hernández scored their only run in the third inning after hitting a one-out double, but from then on the Dodgers did not have another inning in which more than four batters came to bat.

“I thought the sale was good,” Roberts said. “But we fell behind again early.”

In fact, Saturday saw many new milestones for the struggling Dodgers club: Their lead over the San Diego Padres in the NL West shrank to 3.5 games after their sixth loss in the last nine games.

“If you look at the last seven days … it hasn’t been clean baseball,” Roberts said. “Those are things we have to address. We have to get better at those things if we want to be the ball club we want to be.”

This has never been more evident than now, as the Dodgers’ ailing starting lineup puts the onus on other parts of the roster to make up for it — to both solidify their position in the postseason and have any chance at a long run once they get there.

“It really sucks,” Betts said before Saturday’s game of the team’s pitching woes and the news of Glasnow’s injury. “Pitching wins a lot of games. But you also have to hit and defend. It really sucks, but that’s no excuse. It’s no excuse. We just haven’t been playing good baseball by any means.”