Detroit Tigers center fielder Parker Meadows spent the night in a hospital following a frightening collision with teammate Riley Greene on Thursday.

Meadows was left bloodied in the outfield and had to be helped off the field in the eighth inning against the Minnesota Twins after appearing to hit his head during the collision with Greene.

“It’s a terrible feeling. I still feel terrible,” Greene said after the game.  “He hit my head. I don’t know where I hit him, to be honest, but I just really hope he’s OK.”

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The two collided when Twins first baseman Josh Bell, who already had one home run and two singles, hit a shallow fly to left-center field. Greene and Meadows collided hard enough that their caps flew off. 

Greene made the catch as Meadows lay on the ground. The broadcast caught blood coming from Meadows’ mouth.

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Tigers manager A.J. Hinch joined medical personnel on the field as Meadows eventually got up and was taken off the field on a cart. MLB.com reported that he would be held for observation overnight. 

“We’re going to get him checked out for everything, but this one worries me,” Hinch said, confirming that Meadows did suffer a concussion.

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Meadows has started 11 of 13 games in center field for the Tigers this season. He went 0 for 3 in the 3-1 loss on Thursday and is batting .250 with two extra-base hits.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Baltimore Orioles pitcher Kyle Bradish had a start he probably would like to forget.

Bradish was on the bump against the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday afternoon. Chicago took the lead in the fifth inning after Bradish committed two errors on one play.

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White Sox shortstop Colin Montgomery was up at the plate with runners on second and first and was issued a walk after Bradish’s pitch was inside. Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman threw the ball back to Bradish, who dropped it and lackadaisically followed it back to the mound. He realized Chase Meidroth was rounding third and heading for home.

Bradish fired the ball to Rutschman, but it was wide to his left. Meidroth scored on the play to give Chicago a 3-2 lead. Bradish was charged with two errors on the play. He struck out Andrew Benintendi to end the inning and was removed before the start of the sixth inning.

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“Yeah, just frustration came out. Unacceptable,” Bradish told reporters after the game, via MLB.com. “That’s just childish behavior, and that will not happen again.”

The Orioles ended up winning the game, 5-3.

Bradish allowed three runs, two earned, and six hits in five innings of work. He struck out seven batters and walked three more, as the Orioles improved to 6-6 on the year.

The 29-year-old is in his fifth season of his MLB career. He underwent Tommy John surgery during the 2024 season and returned to the mound in August 2025. He has a 3.54 ERA with 396 strikeouts in 70 career starts.

Chicago fell to 4-8 with the loss.

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Reynaldo Lopez might not miss his next scheduled start after all.

The Braves starting pitcher, after working things out with MLB, got his suspension for his role in Tuesday night’s benches-clearing brawl reduced from seven games to five, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

That should keep him in line to pitch Tuesday against the Marlins, USA Today noted.

Lopez was in the middle of the fray in Anaheim last night when he threw a pitch high and inside that Angels designated hitter Jorge Soler — a former Braves teammate — took exception to.

Soler then charged the mound, throwing punches at Lopez, who threw punches in kind, but with a ball in his right hand, connecting on a blow to Soler’s helmet and face.

“It’s just a shame, the situation and how things unfolded,” López said through a translator, per MLB.com. “On my part, there was never any intent to hit him at any point. So, again, it’s just a shame.”

As things continued to escalate and Soler charged Lopez from the pitcher’s mound to the first base line, several Braves tackled the Angels DH, with Atlanta skipper Walt Weiss among those in the fray.

“I love Soler. We were teammates here,” Weiss told reporters. “But that’s a big man, and so I just felt I’ve gotta get him off his feet because he’s gonna hurt somebody. And so that was my instinct, just to get in there and get Jorge off his feet, yeah, because he was on a warpath.”

Soler was suspended for seven games, though he is appealing. On Wednesday against Atlanta, he homered for the second straight day in an 8-2 Angels loss.

Both players also received undisclosed fines for their roles in the brawl.

Lopez is off to a strong start in 2026 with a 1.15 ERA in three starts.

Davey Lopes, a four-time MLB All-Star known for swiping bags while on the basepaths, has died. He was 80.

The Los Angeles Dodgers, who Lopes played most of his 16-year career with, released a statement on Wednesday confirming his death.

“The Dodgers mourn the loss of Davey Lopes, who passed away today at age 80. Lopes was a member of the team’s record-setting infield of the 1970s and 1980s and one of the finest base stealers in MLB history.

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“Our condolences go out to his family and friends.”

Lopes secured one World Series during his years in Los Angeles, as he was part of the 1981 squad that won it all. It was also the fourth straight season Lopes made the All-Star team for the National League.

He also played for the Oakland Athletics, Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros following his time with the Dodgers, and doing so up until 42 years old before getting into coaching.

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Lopes was a late bloomer in terms of debut age, playing his first game for the Dodgers at 27 in 1972. And right after retirement, Lopes remained in MLB, serving as bench coach for the Texas Rangers from 1989-91.

From there, he would bounce around to the Baltimore Orioles and San Diego Padres in various roles until he landed as a manager for the Milwaukee Brewers.

Lopes held that post from 2000-02, going 144-195 in those three seasons before being axed. He went back to the Padres to serve as their first base coach before holding the same position with the Washington Nationals and Philadelphia Phillies.

Lopes eventually retired from coaching in 2017, marking 45 consecutive years, almost half-a-century, that he was making an impact on America’s pastime.

But perhaps his biggest impact was being a part of a Dodgers’ infield that has gone down in history as one of the greatest four-man squads to play the game. While Lopes was playing second base, he was accompanied by first baseman Steve Garvey, third baseman Ron Cey and shortstop Bill Russell.

In Lopes’ 1,139 games at second base for the Dodgers, he played 833 with the other three, which is an MLB record, per the Elias Sports Bureau. The next closest is 623 games, set by the Cubs in the 1960s.

Lopes was also a speed demon on the basepaths, tallying 557 stolen bases, which puts him 26th all-time. He led the league while with the Dodgers in back-to-back seasons in 1975 (77) and 1976 (63).

In 1975, Lopes set an MLB record with 38 consecutive stolen bases without getting caught, which was since broken by Vince Coleman in 1988.

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In the field, Lopes collected a Gold Glove Award in 1978, while providing solid defensive work for whichever team he played for throughout his career.

Lopes slashed .263/.349/.388 with a .737 OPS for his career, collecting 1,671 hits, 232 doubles, 155 home runs and 614 RBI in 1,812 games.

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Miami Marlins ace Sandy Alcantara was red hot on the mound against the Cincinnati Reds and was angling to become the first pitcher to throw back-to-back shutouts in over a decade.

He took a 2-0 lead into the ninth inning when the Reds’ bats started to jump on him. He was removed from the game with one out and after Matt McLain doubled and an Elly De La Cruz walk. Reliever Anthony Bender was unable to keep the Reds at bay and Cincinnati tied the game.

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Cincinnati would score four runs in the 10th inning and hang on for the 6-3 win.

Alcantara was credited with the two earned runs after McLain and De La Cruz scored. He only allowed three hits and struck out six. But he didn’t like manager Clayton McCullough’s decision to remove him from the game.

“So I think I deserve to be asked how I feel before taking me out of the game (at) 95 pitches and (with a) righty on deck,” Alcantara said, via MLB.com. “But it is what it is. Just got to get ready for my next outing. Get back tomorrow and fight the same way that we did today.”

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McCullough suggested he was playing the percentages as the Reds’ lineup was coming through to face Alcantara for the fourth time. He said Bender was the best pitcher to come into the game and win it. Unfortunately, it didn’t turn out that way.

“I think there’s a lot of decisions that go throughout the course of the game, through the course of the season, that do weigh on you, and for this one to turn and not end up in our favor certainly doesn’t feel great,” he added.

“I also know to come here and [to] answer, that is certainly part of it, and I don’t feel great about how it finished for us. I think there’s a lot of decisions throughout the course of the year that do weigh on you. Us losing the game is for me what stings the most.”

Alcantara has been one of the best pitchers to come through the Marlins’ organization in a while.

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He won the National League Cy Young Award in 2022. So far this season, he has a 0.74 ERA with 18 strikeouts. The two earned runs he was charged with on Tuesday were the first through three starts.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Cam Schlittler looked slightly more human Tuesday than he had in his first two starts of the season.

And while that meant giving up his first runs of the year, he was still solid enough to keep the Yankees in it before they came back to pull out a 5-3 win over the Athletics on a chilly night in The Bronx.

After starting the season with 13 ²/₃ straight scoreless innings, Schlittler gave up three runs on four hits in the third inning against the A’s.

“I think overall it was pretty good, but just one mistake there in the third and it cost me three runs,” Schlittler said.

The rally began with Max Muncy’s infield single on a dribbler down the third base line with Amed Rosario playing back.

Ex-Met Jeff McNeil then roped a single to right field before Denzel Clarke moved the runners to second and third on a sacrifice bunt with two strikes.

Schlittler then left a fastball over the plate to Nick Kurtz, who smoked it for a double to the gap to drive in both runs for the 2-1 lead. One out later, Tyler Soderstrom added on with a double of his own down the right field line to make it 3-1.

“Not quite as dominant as his first two [starts], obviously,” manager Aaron Boone said. “You kind of think he’s just going to roll out there for seven innings and 75 pitches and strike everyone out. You realize it’s not that easy. He had some longer at-bats tonight where he just wasn’t quite as sharp with his command.”

Schlittler, who still has yet to walk a batter this season, struck out seven while throwing 84 pitches as he continued to finish off his buildup after a back issue delayed him briefly in the spring.

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Jazz Chisholm Jr. twisted his left ankle when his cleat got caught as he flew out to center field in the eighth inning.

The second baseman was hobbling a bit and a little sore, but remained in the game for the top of the ninth.

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Gerrit Cole threw live batting practice Monday, and if everything goes well in his recovery this week, he is scheduled to pitch again Sunday as he continues his rehab from Tommy John surgery.

“We’ll see if that’s a live or a game setting, I’m not sure yet,” Boone said.

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Boone did not know whether that “game setting” could potentially mean the start of a rehab assignment.

Throughout his comeback, Cole has stuck to a 14- to 18-month timeline for a return, meaning mid-May is the earliest he would be back on a big league mound.

Pitchers get a 30-day clock on a rehab assignment, though that can also be extended for those coming back from Tommy John.

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Through the first 10 games, Rule 5 pick Cade Winquest has yet to appear.

He warmed up in the top of the eighth Tuesday, when the Yankees trailed 3-1 but never got in after they rallied, still waiting to make his MLB debut.

“There’s been a couple games that he’s almost been in,” Boone said. “With the off-days, for the most part, we’ve been dealing on most days with a fairly full pen, with the exception of a couple days where we’ve been real short. Situation’s got to present itself, though. … He’s ready to go when that opportunity comes.”

— Additional reporting by Dan Martin

Generally, when players are annoyed with themselves, they take out their frustrations on something else. Not Atlanta Braves ace Chris Sale.

During the fourth inning of the Braves’ 6-2 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night at Angel Stadium, Sale pounded the baseball off his head out of anger.

Sale, 37, threw a slider well outside the strike zone to Angels first baseman Jeimer Candelario to walk the bases loaded with no out while the game was tied 1-1. Braves catcher Drake Baldwin tossed the ball back to Sale, who caught with his bare hand instead of his glove, dropped the ball, picked it up and slammed it against his head.

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Sale’s frustrations only grew as the inning grew longer. Angels catcher Logan O’Hoppe worked a walk one batter after Candelario, forcing in a run to give the Angels a 2-1 lead.

The Angels rally continued two batters later when Sale hit designated hitter Yoan Moncada with a pitch to force in another run, making it 3-1. After drilling Moncada, Sale bent over, putting his hands on his knees, before walking behind the pitcher’s mound to pick up the rosin bag, only to spike it into the ground.

The nine-time All-Star pitcher’s nightmare of a fourth inning continued when he induced a weak ground ball from center fielder Bryce Teodosio, but it was perfectly placed between shortstop Mauricio Dubon and third baseman Austin Riley.

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Dubon did well by diving to keep the ball in the infield, but another run scored, giving the Angels a 4-1 lead.  

Sale escaped the fourth inning without further damage but allowed a two-run home run in the fifth inning to Jo Adell, giving the Angels a 6-1 lead.

The two-time Cy Young winner was removed from the game afterward. Sale pitched four innings, allowing six runs on five hits, two walks, and striking out seven.

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Sale came into the game with a good track record against the Angels. In 11 games he had an 8-0 record with a 1.24 ERA, but had no such success on Monday.

In three starts this season, Sale is 2-1 with a 3.94 ERA in 16 innings pitched.

The Braves (6-5) will look to bounce back when they play the Angels (6-5) in the second game of their three-game series on Tuesday at 9:38 p.m. ET.

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The advent of mobile ticketing has largely forced the paper ticket to go the way of landline phones, dial-up internet and other commonly used products that technology has phased out.

One lifelong Los Angeles Dodgers fan is hoping the team can at least hear him out on being able to continue to print his tickets.

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Errol Segal, 81, told NBC Los Angeles on Friday the Dodgers told him he won’t be able to buy paper tickets for the entire season. He was able to buy some paper tickets on Thursday.

Segal told the station he doesn’t know how to use a computer and only uses a flip phone.

He told the station it wouldn’t have been a major deal if he was a season-ticket holder for only a few years, but he said, he’s been one for the last five decades.

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“If I had the tickets one year, five years, 10 years, that’s another story,” he told the station. “Fifty years I’ve had these tickets. They threw me under the bus.”

Segal said the team offered to buy his tickets back, but he didn’t want to hear it.

Segal told the station he hopes the Dodgers would reconsider their stance. Fox News Digital reached out to the Dodgers for comment.

The team has a frequently asked questions sheet listed on its team website, showing fans how they would be able to access their Dodgers tickets through the MLB Ballpark app. One of the questions listed asks, “Can I still print my Dodgers tickets at home?”

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“No, to improve security and reduce the risk of ticket fraud, print-at-home tickets in any form are no longer accepted for entry at Dodger Stadium,” the response said.

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Five months later, the disbelief still remains.

Of the Dodgers’ World Series triumph. Of the storybook way it unfolded. Of how close they were to defeat, only to rally for a championship.

In Los Angeles, that iconic Game 7 is now the stuff of legend.

In Toronto, it’s a haunting nightmare for the Blue Jays, who welcome the Dodgers back to Canada for a World Series rematch this week.

For everyone involved, the details are still fresh. Even with the start of a new season, the emotions continue to resonate.

“You got taken to the brink, and you found a way to overcome it,” veteran third baseman Max Muncy said. “For me, that might be something that I look at more than anything else. That we got truly tested … (and) came through in the moments when it mattered.”

All of which, entering Monday’s series-opener at Rogers Centre, raised a lingering question.

Was there ever a moment during Game 7 that the Dodgers started to doubt? Where they took a moment amid the mayhem, considered the dire circumstances they were facing, and thought: Man, we’re really gonna lose this game.

Last week, The California Post posed Dodgers’ players that exact query. Most, of course, said no. Some, perhaps more honestly, acknowledged yes. But all of them continued to be amazed at the scale of their accomplishment –– staring down near certain defeat, and responding with one of baseball’s most memorable victories.

The optimists

Of the 16 players from last year’s World Series team that The California Post polled, the majority (11 of them, to be exact) insisted they never had such apprehension.

For some, it was simple confidence in their battle-tested squad.

“I don’t know if that’s just the experience that we’ve had, or the atmospheres we’d already played in,” Muncy said. “But that was a feeling that was resonating through the dugout. It was, ‘We have our work cut out for us. But we can still get this thing done.’”

“Our dugout was so calm,” Teoscar Hernández added, “it felt like we would for sure come back and at least tie the game.”

Others were too focused pitch-to-pitch to let their mind wander.

“I think playing the game, you’re just so locked in that every bit of your attention is focused on, ‘OK, how are we gonna come back and win?’” Tommy Edman said.

Kiké Hernández felt similarly, especially while fighting through an elbow injury that later required surgery: “To be honest, I was trying to be in the moment because I was in so much pain. I was just trying to survive.”

That didn’t mean the optimists weren’t worried, especially after Bo Bichette’s stadium-rocking blast in the bottom of the third inning gave the Blue Jays an early three-run lead.

Said Muncy: “When Bichette hit the three-run homer and the roof blew off the place, you’re kinda sitting there going, ‘This one’s gonna be tough.’” 

Kiké Hernández: “I was like, ‘F—, we’re down 3-0. It’s gonna be an uphill battle.’”

Tyler Glasnow: “I didn’t think we were gonna lose. But I was like, ‘Ugh.’ I just kind of had a weird feeling in my stomach.”

Yet, throughout the rest of the night, hope was alive and well as the Dodgers embarked on their comeback.

“I didn’t really know how we were gonna do it,” Justin Wrobleski said. “But, I don’t know, I had a feeling.”

So did Blake Snell, who put things more declaratively looking back: “I thought we were gonna win the whole time.”

The realists

On the flip side, the five players who did acknowledge moments of doubt noted they never resigned themselves to certain defeat.

It’s just, in a game that contained so many gut punches and plot twists, it was only natural for some dark thoughts to creep in.

“I think everybody in the world thought that (we were gonna lose), so I’d be lying if I didn’t,” Mookie Betts said. “I mean, obviously, you don’t wanna have those bad thoughts. But I mean, who doesn’t have that thought in that situation?”

“I can’t really lie, saying that I wasn’t worried,” Rojas echoed. “Being down 3-0 in a World Series game, where you know it’s all hands on deck from their bullpen … you’re kind of wondering, like, ‘Hey, is this gonna be it?’”

For Rojas, the concern dissipated quickly, with the run the Dodgers got back in the fourth inning helping to immediately restore belief.

“It makes you believe again, like, ‘OK, we’re not out,’” he said.

For others, however, dread remained straight through to the top ninth inning, when the team was down to its last two outs and the veteran infielder stepped up to the plate.

“When you get one out (that inning), you’re like, ‘Aw, darn,’” Freddie Freeman said. “That’s probably the only time that thought crossed my mind.”

“It was scary, like, ‘We’re gonna come all this way, and we’re not gonna make it?’” Alex Call recalled. “That was probably the most real (the thought of losing the game) felt, when (Rojas) was up at the plate.”

The comeback

The Dodgers had been chipping away at their deficit before then, clawing back within one on Muncy’s homer in the eighth.

And all along, in quiet scenes outside the foul lines, there were other ways players were trying to keep the faith strong.

In the bullpen, Will Klein opted for a superstitious routine.

“I was trying to find a position (to stand) where good things would happen,” he said. “I would go downstairs, we’d get a hit, I’d stay downstairs –– until something bad happened.”

One of his other relief-mates sought comfort from above.

“I’m sitting in the bullpen, I’m just praying,” Blake Treinen said. “And God keeps tapping me, like, ‘Hey, why are you worrying? You’ve prayed for a ring. You’ve prayed for this and that. If it’s gonna be, it’s gonna be. Worrying isn’t gonna add another day to your life.’ It’s like, ‘Alright God.’ And then every time something like that would happen, boom … all these things (good) happened.”

Manager Dave Roberts, who broke down Game 7 on The Dodgers Post podcast last month, felt it in the dugout, noting the confident and supportive chatter he heard throughout the night.

“I look back to 2017 (in the Dodgers’ previous World Series Game 7 against the Astros), we gave up three runs early — and we just kind of mailed it in,” he recalled. “Whereas this game right here, even when we were down 3–0 in the third, there was fight.”

And in the end, it all culminated with Rojas’ game-tying home run; a moment to which everyone offered common sentiments this week.

“We were sooo close,” Call said. “And then it’s like, ‘No! We did it!’”

“After Miggy hit that homer, I was like, ‘Oh, we’re gonna win,’” Glasnow added.

“At that point,” Mookie Betts also noted, “it kind of felt like we were playing with house money.”

Jack Dreyer remembered being next to Clayton Kershaw as they were getting loose in the bullpen. The future Hall of Famer’s reaction: “He was in my ear going, ‘Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!’ over and over again,” Dreyer said with a laugh.

Roberts, meanwhile, couldn’t help but smile while rewatching Rojas’ swing recently –– at which point, the Dodgers’ win probability was only 9%.

“It was not on my bingo card,” he joked of Rojas going deep. “That was unbelievable … I just didn’t expect that.”

The championship

There was more stress the rest of the way … as Call so eloquently recounted in his interview with The Post.

Rojas’ stumbling throw home in the top of the ninth: “Oh my gosh, get up! Throw the ball home! This is it.”

The ensuing review to check if Will Smith’s foot stayed on home plate: “It was like, ‘Is his foot on the base? Are we gonna lose on a replay?’”

Ernie Clement’s fly ball that sent Andy Pages and Kiké Hernández colliding into each other in left field: “I’m like, this is it. We’re gonna lose right here.”

Every time, however, the Dodgers escaped –– dodging one bullet after another before finally prevailing in the 11th on Smith’s go-ahead homer and Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s game-ending double-play.

“There were so many different times we could’ve lost,” Freeman said. “And it was just like, ‘Wow, we got out of that one. We got out of this one.’ … I’m sure if we sat down, you’d probably count on multiple hands, ‘How did we get out of that?’”

The answer, Dodgers players concurred, was rooted in a culture they’d forged over years of formative playoff experience, plenty full of both heartbreak and elation.

“Even when we don’t play well, we figure out ways to win a game,” Kiké Hernández said. “It speaks volumes about who we are as a group, and our ability to not only be really good, but know how to win.”

As Wrobleski, one of the youngest members of the club, put it: “No matter what the situation is, let the situation make you better, and just heighten that focus.”

To Rojas, who was the oldest member of the team’s position player group, such resiliency only added to the feeling of accomplishment.

“I’m proud of the way we kept our composure and fought through that,” he said. “That’s something that you will never forget.”

All those memories, of course, will come flooding back this week when the Dodgers return to Rogers Centre.

Rojas joked that he was looking forward to being booed, something he’s never experienced before in his career: “I really want to step in that batter’s box again and see how it’s gonna be.”

Roberts was anticipating a hostile reaction for the whole team: “I think the fans there want a piece of us. I think it’s gonna be exciting.”

After all, as Treinen pointed out, “You could play that series the exact same way –– every situation lines back up again, before those big plays happen –– you do it 99 more times, and I bet you could almost say we’d lose 99 more of them.”

But hen it mattered, the Dodgers found a way to conjure one-in-a-hundred (Or thousand? Or million?) World Series magic, in a game forever etched into baseball history.

Said Freeman, with a laugh: “I still don’t know how we pulled that off.”

The Dodgers placed star shortstop Mookie Betts on the injured list Sunday with an oblique strain.

Second-year infielder Hyeseong Kim was called up from triple-A to replace him on the roster.

The roster move comes after Betts left Saturday’s game in the first inning, when he felt something in his back while running from first base to score on a Freddie Freeman double.

Betts went for an MRI later Saturday night, and was expected to miss at least the “next couple days,” manager Dave Roberts said.

Now, he will be sidelined for at least 10 days, representing the team’s first injury loss since the start of the regular season.

In Betts’ absence, Roberts said Miguel Rojas and Alex Freeland would likely share time at shortstop. They had previously been platooning at second base, and figure to remain in the mix for playing time there, too.

However, with Kim now back on the roster, he could be in line for regular playing time at that spot.

Despite a strong start to his rookie season last year, Kim struggled down the stretch, was used only as a pinch-runner and defensive replacement in the playoffs, and then failed to make the Opening Day roster this spring amid a continued swing makeover.

The 27-year-old has started the season well down in triple-A, batting .346 (9-for-26) with a double, two RBIs and four walks. Importantly, his strikeout rate has been better too, punching out just seven times in his first 32 plate appearances.

That will be the goal for Kim now: Trying to work good at-bats, play up to his contact-first skillset and use his speed and defensive strengths to make positive contributions.

Just eight games into the season, the Dodgers will need it to navigate their first impact injury.