Dodgers start strong, have to hold on to top Arizona

PHOENIX – Each night, Dodgers bench coach Danny Lehmann carries out to the dugout a binder filled with information on the recent usage of the team’s relievers, preferred matchups for each individual reliever and ideal ‘lanes’ in the opposing team’s batting order for those relievers.

That binder might burst into flames before this series is over.

The Dodgers have somehow emerged from the smoke of two chaotic games at Chase Field with an even firmer grasp on the National League West.