LOS ANGELES — And just when you were having visions of the Dodgers’ next series, and the possibility of baseball’s first repeat champion in 25 seasons …

BOOM!!!

A Philadelphia Phillies ballclub suffering from a lack of production by its stars, and maybe struggling through the same inactivity-driven malaise that bedeviled the Dodgers in 2022 and ’23 after first-round byes, received a tape-measure jolt from its own MVP candidate in the fourth inning of Game 3 of the National League Division Series on Wednesday night. Kyle Schwarber, who had been 0 for his last 22 going into that at-bat, attacked – there’s no better way to say it – a 96.4 mph four-seam fastball from Yoshinobu Yamamoto on a 2-and-0 count, hitting a 455-foot missile to lead off the fourth that bounced off the roof of the ri

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