LA’s fifth-starter role remains sore spot

The Dodgers never did find a reliable fifth starter and it could cost them the home-field advantage in the first round of the playoffs. Although the club's magic number to clinch the National League West was trimmed to two when the A's beat the Giants on Friday night, that was only after the Dodgers were dumped, 7-4, by the Rockies, who gave Mike Bolsinger a Coors Field walloping.