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Did a Trip to Houston Finally Jump-Start the Dodgers’ Superpower Outage?

Scuffling for weeks, the Dodgers’ slumping offense received a gift from Lance McCullers Jr. during a fortuitous trip to Houston. Then another. And another. The Astros starter nearly escaped Wednesday’s second inning unscathed, but he spiked a two-strike changeup to Hyeseong Kim that skipped past catcher César Salazar to bring in the tying run. His control issues cascaded from there. An inning later, McCullers threw a nearly identical pitch to Freddie Freeman that darted into the dirt to bring in the go-ahead run. Later in the same at-bat, McCullers, who was dealing with a fingernail issue duri...