MILWAUKEE -- If the All-Star break is a transformative experience for some, perhaps that has never been so literally the case than it is for Manny Machado, who entered the break as an Oriole and exited it a Dodger.
Machado joined his new club Friday in Milwaukee, where the Los Angeles Dodgers faced the Brewers in a three-game weekend series. He singled in his first at-bat, a couple hours after addressing the media for the first time in his new blue L.A. threads.
"I'm relieved," Machado said. "Relieved it finally got done.