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From Kevin Baxter : The Dodgers lost a game Wednesday. But it could have been worse.

They could have lost Shohei Ohtani.

The final score was 8-3 in favor of the Colorado Rockies, although the game was far more one-sided than that. And the result, combined with San Diego’s win over the Giants, cut the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West to just a game .

Yet the word the team used most often to describe the night was lucky because two hours after Ohtani took a line drive off his right leg, the reigning National League MVP said he had dodged serious injury whe

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