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The Dodgers lurched through a doubleheader Tuesday of two oddly similar games with starkly different outcomes.

Batting average is considered old-fashioned in today’s analytics-driven game, a statistical relic that has been replaced by on-base percentage, slugging percentage and wins above replacement as more accurate measures of offense, and a batting title doesn’t carry the weight it once did.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Not much was working for Logan Webb. Absolutely nothing worked for the Giants against Zac Gallen.

SAN FRANCISCO — Two months ago, the Giants would have considered their rally over, kaput and done with if faced with the same situation that presented itself Monday night. There were two runners on base, one out and Joey Bart was stepping to the plate.

DENVER — The Rockies were late to the party Sunday afternoon and it cost them.

PHOENIX — Teams don’t win many games when they allow seven runs in an inning.

PHOENIX — Pirates manager Derek Shelton has professed patience with his roster this season. On multiple occasions, he’s stated the obvious: With a roster this young, there will be exciting moments of potential and frustrating moments of growing pains.

If there was one saving grace about the previous three years of Rockies futility, it was that they weren’t the worst team in the NL West.