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Jinxing a Dodgers no-hitter is off limits for play-by-play man Joe Davis

As the Dodgers took a no-hitter into the seventh inning of Thursday’s Freeway Series exhibition, Joe Davis and Orel Hershiser joked in the television booth about whether they could jinx a spring training no-hitter.

When the season starts Monday — the first for Davis, after 67 for Vin Scully — this might not be a joking matter for the new voice of the Dodgers. If a certain three-time National League Cy Young Award winner is three outs from a no-hitter, there is one sentence Davis says he will not use.

“I’m not going to tell you, ‘Here we go to the ninth inning, and Clayton Kershaw is throwing a no-hitter,’ ” he said.