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Teoscar Hernandez and James Paxton combine to get Dodgers back on winning track

Teoscar Hernandez and James Paxton combine to get Dodgers back on winning track

They were the other ones, co-stars if not background extras in the blockbuster story that was the Dodgers' offseason. The Dodgers' signings of Teoscar Hernandez and James Paxton drew much smaller headlines – and impacted the payroll far less – than the acquisitions of Shohei Ohtani, Tyler Glasnow and Yoshinobu Yamamoto. Hernandez's grand slam opened up a tight game and Paxton delivered six scoreless innings in his strongest start of the season as the Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres 5-0 Saturday night in front of the largest crowd in Petco Park history (46,701).