LOS ANGELES — Maybe it was the humidity but Mookie Betts sounded like a beaten man at the end of the Dodgers’ three-game series in Tampa last weekend.

“I’m out of answers,” Betts said when questioned – again – about the worst offensive season of his career. “I’ve done everything I can possibly do. It’s up to God at this point.”

Divine intervention or not, Betts has come in out of the wilderness. Since snapping a career-long 0-for-22 Tuesday, he has gone 6 for 11 including his first home run since July 5.

That homer, a two-run drive off Max Scherzer in the fifth inning Friday, was the decisive blow in a Hall of Fame matchup between Scherzer and Clayton Kershaw, sending the Dodgers on their way to a 5-1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays Friday night.

No longer the hard-throwing young pu

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