It seemed too good to be true. It was.

The Dodgers had a sensational run from the middle of May through late August, going 69-18 through August 25, a golden, 87-game stretch when they won 79.3 percent of their games. A nearly unprecedented run that had them on pace to win 116 games, tying the Major League Baseball record for victories in a season.

Everything that could go right did go right.

Stars played like stars. Journeymen played like stars. Veterans got hurt and the club replaced them with kids who were better. It seemed like the club’s talent went 40 players deep.

The Dodgers got to 91-36, nine days ago, then the wheels came off. Two losses to the Brewers. A three-game sweep at the hands of the Diamondbacks — the first time they had been swept this season and their first four-game (and then five-game) losing streaks.

Clayton Kershaw came off the disabled list to lead a 1-0 victory in San Diego on Friday, but the Dodgers were swept in a doubleheader today, and now they are 92-43 after losing seven of eight.

What has gone wrong. Well, a lot of things, and some of them a bit alarming.

–Corey Seager, the second-year shortstop and probably the Dodgers’ best position player, hit the disabled list with a sore throwing shoulder.

–A few days before that, Alex Wood, the No. 2 man in the rotation, with a 13-1 record, gave up three home runs on August 21 and was diagnosed with an inflamed SC joint (where the clavicle meets the sternum). He is due back tomorrow.

–The club’s high-profile addition at the trade deadline, right-hander Yu Darvish, was knocked around (again), lasting only three innings and giving up five runs on eight hits and three walks. He has been abused in two of his four starts since coming over from Texas, and the notion of him as a pillar of strength in the playoffs, considering he was mediocre for the Rangers all year, is being challenged.

–Blister-prone left-hander Rich Hill got crushed earlier this week, and isn’t he about due to get hurt again?

–Cody Bellinger, the greatest of the club’s rookie success stories, has just returned from the DL with an ankle sprain, and he is having trouble getting back up to speed.

–The club has not hit well the past couple of weeks, batting barely .200 from nine games, including Hill’s nine-inning no-hitter he lost 1-0 in the 10th inning.

Things are not going well.

Which is not unusual over a 162-game MLB season, but the Dodgers for three months seemed somehow immune to normalcy — which figures that any team that wins six out of 10 over the course of a season is going to make the playoffs.

For a long stretch, the Dodgers were winning seven (or more) of every 10 games. Well, that is over. Now we wait to see how long it takes them to get out of this funk.