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Blake Snell's latest playoff dud made his absurd 'adversity' comments even sweeter for SF Giants fans

What adversity?
ByNick San Miguel
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Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell (7) looks on from the dugout before game three of the NLCS for the 2026 MLB Playoffs against the Milwaukee Brewers at Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images
Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Blake Snell (7) looks on from the dugout before game three of the NLCS for the 2026 MLB Playoffs against the Milwaukee Brewers at Uniqlo Field at Dodger Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Kiyoshi Mio-Imagn Images | IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect

The Los Angeles Dodgers are on the brink of elimination which is cause for celebration in and of itself for SF Giants fans. The Milwaukee Brewers beat LA on Wednesday night to take a 3-0 series lead and to make it even better Blake Snell had another rough playoff outing after his absurd comments about adversity.

Snell pitched fairly well for the first six innings of Wednesday’s contest, but manager Dave Roberts chose to leave him in for the seventh and Snell ended up giving up two home runs which gave Milwaukee a lead it would not surrender.

This comes after Snell made some truly bizarre comments to the media ahead of Game 3. He said that he had been studying how Brewers manager Pat Murphy talked to his team and said that things would be different once, “adversity hits and thoughts start racing.”

Yeah…about that adversity. The first batter of the game for Milwaukee took Snell deep on Wednesday. To his credit he calmed things down after that and LA even took the lead in the bottom of the sixth, but Milwaukee responded to that “adversity” with a three-spot in the seventh.

Snell’s ERA this postseason is now 4.66. He allowed one earned run in 3 and 2/3 innings of work in the NLDS against the Atlanta Braves and four earned runs against Milwaukee. He really hasn’t pitched very much this season so it’s clear that he’s rusty and is not coming up with the goods in the playoffs. This extends to last year as well though as he has a 6.33 ERA in his last four starts.

Blake Snell dug himself a bigger hole with his comments

The “adversity” comments came after he said that the playoffs is where one truly becomes a Hall of Fame player. Snell wants to be in the Hall someday, but given the fact he can’t make more than ten regular season starts, pitched pretty poorly in his World Series starts last year, and has a reputation for laziness he has not done a ton to help his case.

It also doesn’t help that he took the easy path and joined the Dodgers. He joined that behemoth because he wanted to chase rings. Bay Area sports fans know the type. Kevin Durant joined the Golden State Warriors to do the same thing and it’s well within the rights of players to do it, but they’re going to be criticized.

Snell had a chance for a bit of a Barry Zito-esque performance against the Brewers. Had he shut Milwaukee down it could have been one of those reputation-changing starts but instead he took the loss and ended up looking foolish for his comments. Sounds like a definite win for Giants fans, though. 

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