Glasnow can’t buy a win as Dodgers fail to cash in

Hard-luck pitcher takes no-no into sixth, but error-prone club strands eight in loss.

- By KEvIN BAXTER

CARLIN STIEHL Los Angeles Times A LACK OF RUN support by the Dodgers leaves Tyler Glasnow stuck at 1-3.

The Dodgers have won 71 games since Tyler Glasnow earned his last victory.

That was March 31, 152 days ago. The season was six games old then. No other pitcher with at least 13 major league starts has gone longer without a win this season.

Yet Glasnow was never deserving of a better fate than he was Saturday, when he took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and a shutout into the seventh, only to wind up with the loss when the Dodgers fell 6-1 to the Arizona Diamondbacks.

With the Padres beating the Minnesota Twins, the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West is back to one game.

It’s not as if Glasnow has pitched poorly. In one start he didn’t yield a run and in four others he gave up just one.

He didn’t get the win in any of those games — and that’s starting to get old.

“I know our team will will come back and play better,” said Glasnow, easily the best pitcher in baseball with a 1-3 record. “But it’s frustrating right now.”

In four of his first 13 starts, the Dodgers (77-59) didn’t score a run behind him. So while his 2.45 earned-run average and six earned runs given up in four July appearances led the team’s starters, all he had was a loss and three no decisions to show for it.

He was almost as good in August — when his record was 0-2.

“He can only do what he can do,” manager Dave Roberts said. “So, yeah, if you're not scoring runs, it certainly decreases your margin. But the pitcher's got to do what he’s got to do. The defense has got to do what they've got to do, and then the offense has got to do what they've got to do.”

Only one of those three things happened Saturday, when Glasnow retired the first 10 batters on just 39 pitches, striking out four.