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The Los Angeles Dodgers have never made a habit of playing exciting baseball against anybody except the San Francisco Giants, and if the playoff for the National League pennant had been between those two teams, people might still be talking about the opening game.
But, boredom fans, the Philadelphia Phillies are the Dodgers' opponents this year in the National League playoffs, and they did their best to sit back and let Los Angeles take the opening game of the best of five series last night in Philadelphia, 9-5.
One of the two Eastern squads will face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoffs. The Dodgers clinched the Western Division Sunday.
And in the NL West, those streaking Dodgers ran into Phil Niekro's knuckler as the Atlanta Braves eked out a 3-2 win. Shortstop Bill Russel's costly error allowed the Braves to score the decisive unearned game-winner in the fourth inning.
The loss left the Dodgers eight games ahead of Cincinnati and nine and one half in front of San Francisco as the Reds crushed the Giants, 7-1, yesterday.