After a lackluster offensive performance Tuesday night, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts implored his team to “have a better plan” at the plate.

But an afternoon later, the club was still searching.

For a plan. For results. For anything resembling dependable offensive production.

In a 3-2 loss to the Miami Marlins on Wednesday, the Dodgers not only dropped a three-game series but raised renewed questions about their lineup’s early inconsistency.

They managed only seven hits. They went just 2-for-11 with runners in scoring positions. And despite having the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, they came up empty on a game-ending double-play grounder from Freddie Freeman.

“I think in general, we’re just not all there,” Roberts said. “There are more guys that aren’t going well right now that are.”

Granted, Wednesday’s opposing pitcher was former Cy Young winner Sandy Alcantara, who scattered all seven hits over a six-inning, two-run start.

Still, for a star-studded club that has put up big overall numbers this season, there have also been several disconcerting stretches along the way –– including a current 12-game run in which they are now just 5-7.

“The last 10 days, it just hasn’t been synced up,” Roberts said of the offense. “We just haven’t got those hits when we needed them.”

Indeed, the Dodgers (20-11) had chances to break Wednesday’s game open.

Four different times, they had a runner at second with no outs in an inning.

Capitalizing on such opportunities, however, nearly proved futile. They might have been held scoreless, had they not benefitted from a couple good breaks.

Their first run only scored when Miami shortstop Otto Lopez lost a two-out infield pop-up from Alex Call in the sun, letting it drop for the most fortuitous of RBI singles in the bottom of the second. The next came in the sixth, when Dalton Rushing followed Kyle Tucker’s leadoff double with a soft bloop single that managed to find grass in right field.

Beyond that, their offense managed nothing else.

The Marlins (15-16) weren’t much better against Dodgers starter Tyler Glasnow. The only damage he allowed came via the long ball, with Liam Hicks going deep in the second and former Dodgers outfielder Esteury Ruiz doing the same in the fifth.

Otherwise, the right-hander only faced trouble when he invited it upon himself. He walked six batters (tying a career high) but stranded all of them. He racked up nine total strikeouts, including six in a row at one point, and finished his 5 ⅔ innings outing with a 2.56 ERA this season.

That kept the game tied 2-2 until the eighth, when the Marlins scored the decisive run on Javier Sanoja’s RBI single against Will Klein.

And though the Dodgers loaded the bases in the ninth on three walks –– two from Hyeseong Kim and Call to lead the inning off, then another when Shohei Ohtani was intentionally put aboard following a sacrifice bunt –– Freeman couldn’t complete the last-gasp comeback, bouncing a grounder to second base where Xavier Edwards fielded the ball, tagged out Ohtani, and stepped on first (as was confirmed by video review) to complete the game-ending double-play.

Just when it seemed like the Dodgers’ lineup was turning a corner last weekend, they suffered what was easily their worst series performance at the plate all year.

Outside of a three-run walk-off rally in Monday’s ninth inning, the team combined for only five runs in this week’s other 26 innings. They also failed to hit a home run in any of the three contests, the second time in their last three series that they have failed to go deep.

Glasnow continued his strong start to the season, even while battling more wild command than usual.

Of his 92 pitches, only 56 were strikes. Because of all the free passes, he was forced from the game with two outs in the sixth.

“I think early on it felt good,” Glasnow said. “Then the fifth and sixth, I just was super weird. Lost timing, flying open. It was just one of those days where it was hard to throw strikes.”

Still, when Glasnow was in the strike zone, the Marlins had a tough time hitting him –– outside of the two home runs that came on first-pitch four-seamers over the plate.

For a second-straight start, Glasnow once again pivoted to more of a sinker-heavy game plan to get ahead in the count. And when he mixed in his breaking stuff, he got 10 whiffs out of 17 swings and eight of his nine total Ks.  

While Roberts said some of his hitters are lacking “a clear plan of what they’re trying to accomplish” in situational opportunities, Freeman’s recent struggles have been all about his swing.

The most glaring moment Wednesday came on his game-ending double play, when he went after a sweeper low in the zone and rolled it over to the pull side. However, his 0-for-5 performance was full of plenty other examples, from a thigh-high changeup he skied for a flyout in the third, to another double-play grounder on a bottom-edge sweeper he hit in the seventh.

“I had pitches to hit,” Freeman said. “I just didn’t hit ’em.”

Now, he is just 6-for-35 in his last nine games.

The Dodgers are off on Thursday, and will travel to St. Louis to open a three-game series with the Cardinals on Friday. It’s the first of two stops on their upcoming road trip, which will end in Houston with three games against the Astros next week.