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“When Doc came out and made the pitching change, we talked to him about it and he was all on board,” Muncy said.

“He retired 17 in a row. He had 72 pitches. He’s pitching great,” Phillies manager Rob Thomson said.

And of course a skilled magician, like a technology executive pitching a product, can make an audience believe anything.

“One real strength of this roster is our starting pitching,” Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers’ president of baseball operations, said before the game.

“The passion he has for hitting and the passion he has for pitching, it doesn’t seem like there’s enough passion to go around, but there is with him.”