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in action on Friday http://www.redsfanproshop.com/authentic-cliff-pennington-jersey , starting with Astros and Indians and capped off by Braves and Dodgers, with Rockies-Brewers and Yankees-Red Sox in between."There could be something like eleven straight hours of playoff baseball on Friday. That is fun if watching that much baseball interests you, and assuming, of course, that you can find some level of investment in whether particular teams in this postseason win and lose.The schedule for the day is as follows:Indians-Astros, 2:05, TBS. Starters: Corey Kluber and Justin VerlanderRockies-Brewers, 4:15, FS1. Starters: Tyler Anderson and Jhoulys ChacinYankees-Red Sox, 7:32 (??), TBS. Starters: J.A. Happ and Chris SaleBraves-Dodgers Scott Feldman Jersey , 9:37, FS1. Starters: Anibal Sanchez and Clayton KershawThis is the good stuff. Three past Cy Young award winners taking the mound, including a series that opens with two past winners, Kluber and Verlander, dueling while facing a pair of potent offenses. Happ vs. Sale figures to be a good matchup as well, even if the idea of having to watch the Yankees and Red Sox play in the postseason isn’t especially appealing.Of course, it doesn’t matter how good your starting pitcher is. The Orioles proved this in 2014 when they knocked off the Tigers in three straight games despite the Tigers having a playoff rotation consisting of three former Cy Young winners - including Verlander. It also helps to have a good offense, a good bullpen, and good luck.The Brewers and Dodgers will be looking to hold their home field advantage while taking 2-0 edges in each of their series. It’s the first game for both of the AL matchups.Here are lineups for the Indians and Astros, since they’re playing first and those are what are released as I am writing this:INDIANSFrancisco Lindor - SSMichael Brantley - LFJose Ramirez - 2BEdwin Encarnacion - DHJosh Donaldson - 3BYonder Alonso - 1BMelky Cabrera - RFYan Gomes - CJason Kipnis - CFASTROSGeorge Springer - CFJose Altuve - 2BAlex Bregman - 3BYuli Gurriel - 1BMarwin Gonzalez - LFCarlos Correa - SSTyler White - DHJosh Reddick - RFMartin Maldonado - CEnjoy the games, even if the Yankees and Red Sox can’t somehow both lose. PHOENIX (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers picked a bad time to have their first losing streak in two weeks.Plagued by another night of missed opportunities and Ross Stripling’s shaky start http://www.redsfanproshop.com/authentic-cliff-pennington-jersey , the Dodgers lost 7-2 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Wednesday night to fall to second place in the NL West.The Dodgers (88-71) rallied to tie Arizona in the ninth inning Tuesday night, only to have Eduardo Escobar hit a walkoff homer in the bottom half. That loss, combined with Colorado’s win over Philadelphia, dropped the Dodgers’ division lead to a half-game.With Rockies (88-70) rolling over the Phillies 14-0, the Dodgers couldn’t bounce back from Arizona’s three-run second inning against Stripling (8-6) or take advantage of an early opportunity against Zack Greinke. Los Angeles has lost consecutive games for the first time since Sept. 10-11 and is now a half-game back in the NL West.“As far as getting to the postseason, it takes us, we control our own fate,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “We’ve got to win baseball games. For us, there’s a little back against the wall.”The Diamondbacks displayed plenty of power in their final home game. A.J. Pollock hit a three-run home run, David Peralta had his 30th of the season and Socrates Brito hit his first big-league homer in two years.Greinke (15-11) overcame a shaky start to allow two runs and strike out six in six innings.The Diamondbacks struggled early in September to fall out of the playoff race, but made an impact by winning the final two games against the Dodgers.“I understand what happened in the early part of the month Jose Peraza Jersey , but this is really all we had left,” Arizona manager Torey Lovullo said. “We beat the Dodgers two out of three and hurt their chances of advancing.”The Dodgers had a big chance against Greinke in the third inning, loading the bases with one out. They came away with nothing after Yasiel Puig lined out to shortstop and Yasmani Grandal grounded out to second.“It was just the one hit or the at-bat that eluded us,” Roberts said. “That Puig at-bat, it goes a different way, it’s a completely different game. But that’s baseball.”Stripling allowed two runs in 3 1/3 innings in his return to the rotation against San Diego his last time out. He didn’t last that long against the Diamondbacks.Arizona hit for the reverse cycle against him in a three-run second inning, starting with Brito’s leadoff homer. Stripling was pulled after walking Peralta to load the bases with two outs, but Pedro Baez ended the threat by striking out Paul Goldschmidt.Stripling allowed seven of the 12 batters he faced to reach base, allowing three runs on five hits.“It’s kind of tough when you’re trying to help a team win, help a team that’s battling for playoff implications and you can’t get through two innings,” Stripling said. “It stinks.”The Dodgers had some hard-hit balls of Greinke early http://www.redsfanproshop.com/authentic-cliff-pennington-jersey , taking a 2-0 lead on run-scoring hits by Cody Bellinger and Stripling. The right-hander escaped the jam in the third inning and allowed two more hits the rest of the way.“They were hitting the ball pretty hard the first couple of innings and just had a lot of good defensive plays and scored some runs,” Greinke said. “Then I started pitching better after that.”RARE SWITCH-OFFThe eighth inning featured a rare switch-pitcher facing a switch-hitter.Dodgers reliever Pat Venditte got the first two outs of the inning pitching right-handed, then switched to lefty with Ildemaro Vargas on deck. Vargas, who was swinging left-handed, saw Venditte switch and he asked the bat boy to bring another helmet so he could bat right-handed.Venditte won the switch-off, getting Vargas to fly out to right.TRAINER’S ROOMDodgers 3B Justin Turner got hit left thumb checked out after the game for swelling from a hard-hit ball by Goldschmidt in the fifth inning. He remained in the game and Roberts he was sore, but didn’t think there was anything wrong structurally.UP NEXTDodgers: Los Angeles could use another strong outing from LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu Friday against San Francisco. He tossed six scoreless innings to beat San Diego his last start.Diamondbacks: LHP Patrick Corbin is 4-2 with a 2.96 ERA in 15 road starts heading into Friday’s game against San Diego.