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The Orange County Register
The Orange County Register
Sport
Bill Plunkett

Dodgers shut out for first time this season, lose to Nationals

WASHINGTON — Mookie Betts got most of the day off Wednesday. The Dodgers’ offense took the whole day.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had postponed giving the red-hot Betts a day off but finally rested him Wednesday. After scoring 19 runs in the first two games against the Washington Nationals with Betts in the lineup, the Dodgers managed just six hits and no runs in a 1-0 loss.

Betts struck out as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning, ending his streaks of 12 consecutive games with a run scored and six consecutive games with at least one extra-base hit. Cody Bellinger and Will Smith didn’t start Wednesday either.

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