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The band themselves also appeared in good spirits, exchanging smiles, with Smith playfully dancing around during the encore that included Close To Me and Lullaby.

In a Game 3 ringing with “Beat L.A.” chants and thick with an encore energy carried over from the Game 2 maelstrom, the Padres brought the intensity while the Dodgers surrendered it.

A great start ... and yet one major hurdle between this and the mandatory repeated encores.

This was not the encore Bobby Miller had in mind.

In Monday night’s encore at Truist Park, the rookie Japanese right-hander had to be unbreakable instead.