LOS ANGELES -- A player can sign a four-year, $55 million free-agent contract and press to prove his worth, sometimes with irreversibly negative consequences. So,
The series exceeded its share of oddities, from a pair of catchers pitching, to an umpire leaving with whiplash to a six-hour, five-minute marathon and five Dodgers hit batters (continuing a trend against Arizona).\n\n• [Turner avoids serious injury on HBP](https://www.mlb.com/dodgers/news/justin-turner-says-pad-kept-him-off-injured-list)\n\n“Not normal,” Pollock said of the series. “The first three games were crazy and the comeback today was great.”\n\nThen there are the sheer offensive numbers. In four games, the Dodgers are batting .327 with a 1.086 OPS and an average of 10.5 runs per game. They have 27 walks in 40 innings.\n\nAlmost the entire Dodgers offense is on a tear, with Bellinger,
Pollock singled and scored in the Dodgers’ three-run first inning, but the double was pivotal and, as Pollock indicated, lucky, which can be said for the entire inning.\n\nJustin Turner led off with a bouncer to the hole that shortstop Nick Ahmed couldn’t backhand, drawing an error. With one out, Bellinger legged out an infield single on a 3-2 pitch. On a 1-1 pitch from Yoshihisa Hirano away, Pollock jabbed at the ball and sent it just inside first base and down the line.\n\n“To be honest, I was focused on how quick he was to the plate and it was messing up my timing,” Pollock said. “I’d love to take credit for a great swing, but a little bit of luck was involved. It wasn’t the prettiest swing, but it worked out.”
The ball wasn’t hit hard enough to get to right fielder Adam Jones, who tried to pick it up when it stopped, but dropped it. Pollock, running through the second-base bag, hustled to third as the go-ahead run. He scored on
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