The Dodgers end their stretch of a baker’s dozen of game days in a row on Wednesday, with a start time 90 minutes earlier than usual, by rule. They are 8-4 through the first 12 games of this stretch, after winning the first two games against the Reds.

In the first 19 three-game series at Dodger Stadium this season, nine have been sweeps, six in the Dodgers’ favor. The Dodgers on the season entered the final game of a series with a chance to sweep 13 times this season, and have finished the job seven times, including 6-3 at Dodger Stadium. They had a previous chance to sweep the Reds, on July 30 in Cincinnati, but an eighth-inning rally by the home team dashed those hopes.

Shohei Ohtani started that July 30 game — he left with hip cramps — and will start again on the mound this time again

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