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No. 60 was just the beginning.

The Dodgers lurched through a doubleheader Tuesday of two oddly similar games with starkly different outcomes.

LOS ANGELES — He stole bases. He stole championships. He stole a city's heart.

LOS ANGELES — With nearly all of the drama drained from the Dodgers’ regular season, much of what remains is backwash from last winter’s lockout – a five-game series against the Arizona Diamondbacks including Tuesday’s doubleheader and a six-game series against the Colorado Rockies to come, the product of baseball’s…

LOS ANGELES — Maury Wills, who worked hard to achieve stardom with the Los Angeles Dodgers, then worked just as hard to regain dignity and standing within baseball through sobriety, has died, the team announced Tuesday.

He spent 12 of his 14 big-league seasons with Los Angeles, and was a member of three World Series championship teams.

Wills played on World Series title teams in 1959, ‘63 and ‘65 during his first eight seasons with the Dodgers. He also played for Pittsburgh and Montreal before returning to the Dodgers from 1969-72, when he retired.

Too many strikeouts? Too reliant on home runs? No matter. This is Aaron Boone’s best team to win in the postseason.

Batting average is considered old-fashioned in today’s analytics-driven game, a statistical relic that has been replaced by on-base percentage, slugging percentage and wins above replacement as more accurate measures of offense, and a batting title doesn’t carry the weight it once did.

SAN FRANCISCO — The rain came, the Giants rallied, but nothing could delay the inevitable.

PHOENIX — It wasn’t perfect by any means, but a 6-1 victory over the Diamondbacks and two losses that occurred elsewhere made for a good Sunday for the Padres.