LOS ANGELES — Dave Roberts was as direct as he’s been all season when assessing his ball club’s play as of late.“We’re a wild-card team right now,” the long-time skipper said Monday afternoon, acknowledging the Dodgers’ recent slide in the playoff picture. “We have to get going and play with urgency. We have to make sure we don’t get ahead of the playoff situation, and talk about winning now, winning today, winning tomorrow.”“That part of the, ‘We’re gonna be OK and we’re good,’ that’s not good enough,” he continued. “Clearly it’s not, given how we’ve played over the last month. We put ourselves in this position. A lot of talent. But I think across the board, we need to play with more urgency. And our guys know that.”It was notable then to see struggling closer Edwin Díaz pound his fist into his glove repeatedly and let out a triumphant yell after notching a perfect ninth inning to preserve the Dodgers’ 6-5 win over the Kansas City Royals. It was one of several little moments in which the Dodgers’ urgency was on display, palpable not through rushed processes or pressed approaches, but by concerted efforts to be more aggressive — by players and manager alike.Monday’s game was not played nor managed like a mid-August contest against a team 22 games under .500. Losing eight of their last nine games and falling behind the Milwaukee Brewers and Atlanta Braves in the National League standings served as a wakeup call for the back-to-back champs. That was evident when Roberts elected to pinch-hit Kyle Tucker for a slumping Teoscar Hernández with two on and two out in the bottom of the sixth and the Dodgers trailing by one. Or by the dugout reaction one batter later, when Max Muncy cleared the bases with a three-run double, providing an offensive jolt that has felt much too scarce lately.