When the Los Angles Dodgers quickly responded to their series loss to the San Diego Padres with a sweep of the Cincinnati Reds last week, it felt like they would breeze through the Arizona Diamondbacks and Pittsburgh Pirates and finally regain separation in the National League West. Instead, the defending World Series champions dropped two versus the Snakes at home and fell 9-7 to the Buccos on Tuesday night.

Coming out of a stellar August in which he went 5-0 with a 1.88 ERA, future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershaw combusted in his first September start of the season. The veteran left-hander allowed four runs – all in the first inning– and walked four batters in five innings of work. LA erased the deficit, however, with history-making Shohei Ohtani , Teoscar Hernandez, Andy Pages and Will

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