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A Dodgers-Astros Game in 1978

A Dodgers-Astros Game in 1978

Bruce Bochy and Dusty Baker are baseball lifers who first played against each other in the summer of 1978.

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There are a few individual baseball games that, for one reason or another take on a greater significance as time passes. One of those games occurred on September 7th, 1978 when the Dodgers beat the Astros in Houston 3-2.

In 1978, both teams were in the NL West, but they could not be called rivals. By September of that season, the Dodgers were tightening …

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