The Dodgers didn’t win the first game of their series, but they looked better overall than they usually do on the first game of a road trip.

Well, the offense did anyway.

After Clayton Kershaw had that terrible first inning, allowing four runs with an uncharacteristic number of walks, I personally thought that was that. And when they had the bases loaded with no outs and only managed to get one run plated, again I thought, well that is that. I’ve seen that film before, and I didn’t like the ending.

But the offense continued to battle back, and ended up scoring seven runs, the most they’ve scored to start a series home or away since the first one after the All-Star Break against the San Francisco Giants. The problem was that the pitching staff gave up nine.

The starting pitching has bee

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