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- Updated: August 1, 2016
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers lost another starting pitcher and won another game Sunday.
Depth and resilience, as this front office has emphasized, got the Dodgers through another daily crisis, as they overcame a first-inning lat injury to starting pitcher Bud Norris and a three-run deficit to crush the D-backs, 14-3, and keep pace with the Giants.
Trade or no trade by Monday’s non-waiver Trade Deadline, the Dodgers figure to continue battling, as they have, despite tying the National League record for number of players on the disabled list in one season (22). With Sunday’s win they are two games out of first after once trailing by eight, they lead the Wild Card race and are 13 games over .500.
The Dodgers are an NL-best 18-10 since losing Clayton Kershaw to injury, which hasn’t turned into the season’s death-knell as feared. Norris was the emergency acquisition then, and even if he misses a start or more, the Dodgers have been able to stay afloat without Kershaw, Hyun-Jin Ryu, Alex Wood, Brett Anderson and Brandon McCarthy (who returned July 3), and those are just the starting pitchers who have gone …
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