Yasiel Puig arrived late to the ballpark Monday and was benched by the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Puig wasn't in the lineup on Sunday, either, after he made a base-running error the previous day.

"Yasiel has been great all year, but to be frank, there was a situation where he was supposed to be on the field today and he was late," Dave Roberts said. "Where we're at right now, it has to be clear to everyone in the clubhouse that the only purpose is to prepare for the postseason, to finish the season strong and for it to be about all of us. I think, and I know, no one player can be bigger than the team. The priority has got to be for all of us. For me right now, that was a decision that he made, not me."

The Dodgers have had baseball's best record for most of the season and will be trying to reach the World Series for the first time since 1988 when the playoffs start next week.

"[My] level of concern [is] very minimal," Roberts said. "When you can lose your best player like we did last year and parts of this year in Clayton Kershaw and continue to move forward ... again, no one player is bigger than the whole and the sum. The onus is on him. I want him in there. I expect him in there. ... When you show up late for work, there has got to be consequences. That's just the way life works and the way life should work."