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WASHINGTON, D.C. — A sense of quiet relief percolated through the Dodgers’ clubhouse early Wednesday evening.
That collective exhale, and the prospect of a happy flight home, was made possible by the tension that preceded it. Down a run late to an inferior Washington Nationals team, baseball’s fully-loaded juggernaut looked in serious danger of suffering an embarrassing sweep. Two losses on two ruthlessly cold nights in the nation’s capital at the end of a week-long East Coast swing had L.