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Ford returns to the Reds organization after he was released just four days ago. The 31-year-old decided to opt out of his minor league deal last week. He’ll give the team some useful depth, especially in light of Christian Encarnacion-Strand’s injury.

It went off the same toe he fractured last month. Hunter Feduccia is expected to take his roster spot and serve as the Dodgers’ backup catcher for at least the next 10 days.

This was a tie game in the ninth before Mookie Betts, after an intentional walk to Shohei Ohtani, drove in the go-ahead run. After that, Teoscar Hernández, Tommy Edman and Muncy hit back-to-back-to-back homers to put the game away. The Dodgers almost had another homer earlier in the inning, but a Will Smith blast somehow stayed in after hitting the very top of the concrete in center, resulting in a triple. Muncy’s homer was his sixth in 80 plate appearances since returning from a strained oblique last month and 15th in 62 games overall.

Buehler generated mostly soft contact tonight, and the biggest exception, a 376-foot fly from Jarred Kelenic that would have been a homer in five ballparks, was a harmless flyout. It wasn’t enough to get Buehler his first win since May, but it was an encouraging showing from someone who is going to have to come up big for the injury-decimated Dodgers to have much of a shot in October.

Morton was hit or miss for most of the summer, but he has a 2.68 ERA in his last seven starts. He’ll be an excellent play in mixed leagues with the Marlins next on the schedule.

A truly stunning outing from a closer who hadn’t allowed an unearned run since June 16, which was when he took his only other loss in 59 appearances this season. Iglesias saw his ERA jump from 1.16 to 1.87 tonight.

Hernández hit for Gavin Lux in the seventh and fanned then. He did so twice more in a ninth inning in which the Dodgers totaled seven runs. Hernández is batting .215/.270/.345 in 360 plate appearances for the season. If the Dodgers had it to do over again, we wonder if they’d still make the same choice they did last month and keep him over Jason Heyward.

Payamps probably would have remained in for the eighth today after getting just one out to finish the seventh, but the soreness changed things. It’s unclear whether he’ll miss additional time.

Manager Pat Murphy said Williams, who worked Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, was available for part of an inning today, but not a whole one. We don’t see how that makes much sense — if there were real concerns about his usage, he should have simply been unavailable today — but we don’t make those decisions. As is, Williams got up in the bullpen twice, which hardly counts as a day off. We assume he’ll be available Monday, but we’ll see.

Will Smith was supposed to have this one off, but he entered as Barnes’ replacement. It’s the same toe that Barnes fractured last month, so he’s probably in quite a bit of pain at the moment.

The game-ending hit to right likely would have been caught under normal circumstances, but the outfield was playing in with the bases loaded and none out in a tie game. Arizona overcame an 8-5 deficit to win this game, scoring two runs in the seventh and one in the eighth. The Brewers scored twice in the 10th, but the Diamondbacks rallied off Jared Koenig in the bottom of the inning. Suárez wound up with three RBI on the day. He’s at 95 for the year, and it looks like he’ll reach 100 for the third time in his career. It was hard to imagine this coming when he finished June with 32 RBI.