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Business as usual in Manny's return

By Eric Neel
ESPN.com

Friday, July 3, 2009

SAN DIEGO -- There were some odd features to the Dodgers-Padres game Friday night at Petco Park, no doubt. Both teams wore red caps in honor of the Fourth of July, for example, making the game -- won by the Dodgers, 6-3 -- look like a Texas Rangers split-squad affair in March. The press box and the stadium seating were both SRO for an early July game between a division leader and an also-ran sitting 15 games back. A five-run first inning by the visiting team inspired cheers and dances in t ...

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