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The Dodgers continued their celebration of the triumph season of the World Series of last year by distributing championship rings on Monday. The 49,702 people who bought tickets had replicas while Gavin Lux, who played for the Dodgers last season and is now with the Reds of Cincinnati, obtained a real one.
If the team hopes to win more jewelry again this fall, the next five weeks will be essential. Because after the 7-0 Monday victory on the Reds, the Dodgers led San Diego by a match in the West National League with only 30 to do in the regular season for the two teams.
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However, if the Dodgers (75-57) continue to play as they did on Monday, when Andy Pages dominated twice, driving in four points, and Emmet Sheehan launched a goalless in career in career, they will be difficult to catch.
“The defense was just engaged, each guy there. The bats, one at nine years old, were great,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts. “This is probably one of the best games, complete games, which we have played for months. I am really, really excited by the way we played.”
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Also excited, because what started like a marathon six months ago is now another type of race.
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“We are in a sprint now,” said Michael Comforto, who has successfully worked and made two exceptional games in the left field. “We are in a race for the division.”
And they are one step ahead in this race with the Padres, which, like the Dodgers, have 10 remaining series, five at home and five on the road. But San Diego has the easier calendar, based on the percentage of combined victories of his opponents (0.474) entering the week. Dodgers have the easiest fourth calendar.
For Roberts, the narrow margin of his team for error is something to adopt because he has the potential to acquire his team for the playoffs, as opposed to simply entering the playoffs.
Andy Pages hits a home run during the third round for the Dodgers against the Reds on Monday. (CARLIN STIEHL / LOS Angeles Times)
“Competition should bring out the best of you,” he said. “So, where the margins are smaller and all count more compared to a big lead and you do not play with the emergency because you do not need it, and you must then return the switch, it’s difficult.”
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The Dodgers also quickly add reinforcements for their thrust in the playoffs. During the weekend, Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates’s lifts returned from the injured list and the public service player Kiké Hernández was activated on Monday. The third goal player Max Muncy and the Hyeseong Kim interior field player could be back before the next road trip, if not before. Utilityman Tommy Edman and the Roki Sasaki launcher are probably not far behind.
Then, there is Sheehan (5-2), who was brilliant on Monday, launching seven best careers in a career and equaling a career summit with 10 stick withdrawals to win his third consecutive decision. Sheehan only abandoned two strokes and walked one.
“I really have to build it. Try to keep the same progress we have made, continue for the next one,” said Sheehan. “It’s pretty fun. It’s much more fun than watching the ball pass the fence, that’s for sure.”
For Roberts, it is as if his team had acquired half a dozen new players.
The Dodgers Mookie Betts Dodgers stop, on the left, famous with the right defender Teoscar Hernández after hitting a home run during the seventh round against the Reds on Monday. (CARLIN STIEHL / LOS Angeles Times)
“These are exchanges of deadlines in themselves,” he said. “I appreciate the guys who were here, in a way to cringe. But it is good by looking on the horizon, seeing the guys that we come to come.
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Pages put the dodgers in front to stay on the third on Monday, leading a quick ball of 102 mi / h from Hunter Greene in the enclosure of the lifts in the left field. He struck another in fifth round for his 23rd season circuit, the second largest number of the team behind the 45 of Shohei Ohtani.
In the sixth, a double from Freddie Freeman and Walks to Will Smith and Teoscar Hernández loaded the basics of the pages, whose land with two withdrawal has short under Elly de la Cruz for a two -point error. A Homer by Mookie Betts, his second sure shot of the match, with one in the seventh and a fly of sacrifice from the pages to the eighth closed the score.
Lights Jack Dreyer and Anthony Banda followed Sheehan, launching a round each to finish the laundering, the fourth of the team in the last 23 games.
The Dodgers had only three bleaching in the first 109 games.
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Now come the reinforcements, although Kiké Hernández said he had almost not succeeded. After making the injured list on July 6 with an inflammation of the left elbow, he tried three injections and non -invasive rehabilitation procedures, but nothing seemed to work.
“I got to a point where I did not know if it was going to happen. We were quite close that it did not happen,” he said about his return. “There are procedures that I went through that have done nothing. I made four shots in a month, and [the] The first three did nothing, and fortunately the fourth was the answer.
“After the last blow, I was painless.”
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Hernández said he was expecting to start in the left field on Tuesday. He joined the Dodgers just in time for their sprint on arrival.
“These are qualifying-atmospheres matches from now on,” he said. “I hope that it brings out the best of people and also teaches the youngest as when they come and we are in October, the moment is not too important for them.”
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This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.
