As recently as July 3, the Los Angeles Dodgers were sitting on a comfortable nine-game lead in the NL West. The defending World Series champs had won four straight games and 15 of their last 18 games despite having a full 13-man pitching staff on the injured list and getting something less than superstar play from Mookie Betts . The Dodgers were great. News at 11.
That nine-game division lead is gone.
Tuesday night, the Dodgers got walked off by the Los Angeles Angels ( LAA 7, LAD 6 in 10 innings ) while the San Diego Padres took care of business against the San Francisco Giants ( SD 5, SF 1 ), moving the two clubs into a first-place tie. They have identical 68-52 records with 42 games to play. DraftKings still has the Dodgers as the favorite (-240).
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