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Dodgers fail to maintain momentum in loss to Padres

LOS ANGELES__It won't be easy.

If there are any lessons to be learned from watching the 2018 Los Angeles Dodgers, a team stocked with supreme talent and capable of producing acute irritation, it is that the route to a sixth consecutive division title will not be smooth. A sweep of Colorado earlier this week cleared a path to capture the National League West - only to see the Dodgers promptly trip over their own feet in a 5-3 loss to San Diego.

The defeat recalled an exasperating pattern of play established

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