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Thus, his next time up in the top of the seventh, Pages swung at three straight sliders from reliever Eduardo Salazar.

“What’d you say to Tanner before the game?” first-year Dodgers reliever Tanner Scott, a longtime personal friend of Phillips’ in the game, implored his new teammate to share with a reporter.

“It took a minute for the shock to go away, since from the bullpen they looked like bowling pins,’’ Brewers reliever Trevor Megill told the New York Post.

Then they capped it all off with a stunning signing of one of the best relievers in baseball, Shohei Ohtani’s nemesis Tanner Scott, in a move that even surprised Roberts.

Held hitless through the first four frames by Imanaga, who stranded two pairs of walks in the second and fourth innings, the Dodgers immediately jumped on Cubs reliever Ben Brown in the fifth.