LOS ANGELES — Mookie Betts doesn’t quite understand all the fuss. After all, it’s not like they re-invented the wheel play.

“Never. I’ve never had (so much reaction to a defensive play),” he said of all the comments that followed the critical bunt play in the ninth inning of the Dodgers’ Game 2 victory in Philadelphia .

“Especially for such – I think it’s such a basic play. There’s only, like, two or three ways (to defend against a bunt), and that’s one of them.

“It would be like the Lakers if they won the NBA championship running the 2-3 zone. That’s how I view it. It’s just we ran it in a big spot and we were able to do it right. I think we executed it really perfectly myself, just the timing of it, I think.”

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts called it “our only chance, really, to win t

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