Taking the lead in the second inning to not only never relinquish it but not even be threatened in an 8-0 win, the Dodgers secured the top spot in the NL West once again. Evidently, the Dodgers’ offense realized its injustice towards Yoshinobu Yamamoto throughout the year, consistently providing him with subpar run support, and wanted to do something about it. It’s the type of thing you can’t make up all at once, but the Dodgers played as though they could, showering Yamamoto with runs and more runs, wanting no part of a close affair in this division-clinching win.

Any plans of a successful bullpen game from Arizona crumbled with Nabil Crismatt, who followed Jalen Beeks in the second inning. Crismatt was the main man on the receiving end of this slugfest from Los Angeles, which brought fo

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