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Right before Springer’s moment, though, he said he went into the tunnel near the dugout, got down on his knees and asked for heavenly assistance.

From there, he casually walked off the mound and traded his glove for a bat and a helmet without even entering the dugout.

After finishing with six scoreless, two-hit, 10-strikeout innings on the mound, he came out of the dugout again in the seventh.

When Yoshinobu Yamamoto returned to the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dugout after finishing his eighth overpowering inning on Tuesday night, there was no doubt in his manager’s mind about what to do next.

If they can get those two wins within the next three games, they won’t have to return to Milwaukee, the land of the great sausage race, and of the polka dancers atop the dugout.