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- Updated: May 11, 2016
LOS ANGELES — Slightly lost amid Trayce Thompson’s walk-off homer in the Dodgers 3-2 win on Tuesday night was that Alex Wood, for the third straight time, brought renewed strikeout stuff.
“It starts with Wood’s outing,” manager Dave Roberts said. “There wasn’t a lot of hard contact. The pitch quality is continuing to get better. He’s getting the swing and miss, getting the strikeouts. For him to give us six-plus was huge.”
The stretch began two starts ago, when Wood held the Padres to one run in seven innings while striking out nine, and it continued Tuesday with another nine punchouts, over 6 1/3 innings. Between those two starts is a loss …
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