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Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell . My third grandchild, Paisley , was born this week. Things like that give Brock Stewart pitching poorly the proper perspective.

The Dodgers season was going along just fine. We had grown accustomed to the pitching doing poorly, and being injured, and were just waiting for the start of the postseason. But, no, the Dodgers had to thrown in a new wrinkle: The offense is now terrible too.

So what has happened to the offense? Shohei Ohtani , Mookie Betts , Freddie Freeman and Teoscar Hernández stopped hitting. Max Muncy was injured. It seemed that only Will Smith

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