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Hill is rocked as L.A. is still blocked

LOS ANGELES_The silence irritated Kenley Jansen. In the hours before thousands of spectators fill a baseball stadium, the ballpark can feel eerie or serene. It depends how your team is playing. On Saturday afternoon, as batting practice unfolded for a collection of Los Angeles Dodgers who had lost twice as many games as they'd won in 2018, Jansen hollered in the general vicinity of the folks running Dodger Stadium's speaker system.

"I promise we'll play better!" Jansen shouted. "I promise! We need some music! I promise we'll go

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