LOS ANGELES — The version of Will Smith the Dodgers are looking for turned on a fastball over the inside part of the plate on Sunday afternoon and transformed growing despair into jubilation.

The late-inning drama, when the Dodgers lost the lead in the eighth and won the game in the ninth , encapsulated an entire season.

Considered by some as the greatest roster ever assembled, the defending champions have spent much of the season navigating injury issues and a post-All-Star break swoon, creating concerns that momentum will be hard to recapture in order to turn this season into a mirror image of last one.

Sunday’s development has helped to inspire the Dodgers’ latest hope, that Smith can lead the charge down the stretch after he was not at his best in the second half last season.

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