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Blake Parker Jersey , I just felt for him and our guys. I wanted to make sure I went out there and greeted him.â€â€œHamstring is good now, but it will be sore tomorrow.â€Bellinger also came through in the field, snagging this sinking line drive off the bat of Lorenzo Cain in the 10th.It was a well-pitched affair, with the Brewers needing seven pitchers and the Dodgers needing nine. There were only 15 hits combined and 32 total strikeouts.Had the game gone any further, it was going to get wild. Neither team was in a position to go much more than a couple more innings.“It really was,†said Roberts when asked if it was one of the most challenging endings to a game. “We had our Game 6 starter (Hyun-Jin Ryu) going to the pen. We had Julio for two, maybe three innings. So I guess the poker reference, we were all in.â€Some five hours earlier, the Dodgers had struck the first blow, scoring on a Brian Dozier RBI-single in the first inning. It was the first hit with a runner in scoring position since Saturday when Joc Pederson dunked a pop-fly single into no-mans land in Milwaukee that loaded the bases in the seventh inning.Dozier’s playing time has been limited in the postseason after falling out of favor in September. The Dodger second baseman made an immediate impact on the game.“(Dozier) hasn’t played a whole lot in the last few weeks but he’s a pro and just really takes good at-bats,†said Roberts. So for him to spark us and get a point on the board early, that was huge.It was a good start for a Dodger team that needed a win to prevent their backs being against the wall in a must-win Game 5 — which starts in what seems like hours.Rich Hill was outstanding for five innings, holding the Brewers to one run on three hits. Working around three walks, Hill mostly stayed out of trouble until the fifth when he faced the pesky Orlando Arcia at the bottom of the order.Arcia smacked a one-out single up the middle into center to bring up the pitcher’s spot. Brewers manager Craig Counsell, sensing the opportunity to score
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Justin Verlander Jersey , we win homestands, we win months,†Hinch said. “It’s a boring, methodical way of describing it but that’s what’s needed for 162 (games) and that’s why we’ve had four winning seasons.â€Altuve and Correa are healthy now and up-and-coming star third baseman Alex Bregman is poised to take another step after a breakout 2018 season. The rotation is in good shape, too, with Justin Verlander and Gerrit Cole back to lead the pitching staff.“I have as much confidence as I ever have in this team,†Hinch said. “I love this team. I love the makeup. I love the edge that we have, the versatility that we have, the depth that our minor league system has. There’s a lot of good going on here.â€The Astros open the season at Tampa Bay on March 28 with Verlander on the mound against 2018 Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell.WHO’S THE DH?The Astros didn’t re-sign Evan Gattis, who served as the team’s designated hitter last season, leaving that spot open entering this year. But don’t expect the team to fill the role with just one player. General manager Jeff Luhnow said Tyler White will get some at-bats but the team plans to use the DH spot to give their stars a break from playing in the field from time to time. He noted that Altuve, Correa, Bregman, first baseman Yuli Gurriel and center fielder George Springer could all see time at designated hitter this season.“It’s nice to have that flexibility and not be locked into having one guy that you have to play every day because he’s the DH,†Luhnow said. “We certainly want to utilize that spot and maximize both the rest it provides for the position players as well as the output because we want to get some home runs out of that spot.â€NEW FACESWhile much of Houston’s team is unchanged from a year ago
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