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The Dodgers’ top prospect, catcher Dalton Rushing, can also provide depth after finishing this past season playing left field in triple-A.

Shortstop Alex Freeland also finished the year in triple-A, having impressed team evaluators and rival scouts.

However, with the A’s and the triple-A Sacramento River Cats expected to share the stadium next season, MLB planned for artificial turf because it did not believe grass could remain robust all summer with either the A’s or River Cats playing on it every day.

The triple-A stadium into which the A’s are moving, Sutter Health Park, currently features a grass field.

Pages, who was demoted to triple-A Oklahoma City in August and had one hit and four strikeouts in his first 10 playoff at-bats, also singled in the second inning, a three-hit, four-RBI effort that the Dodgers were unable to capitalize on but which could be significant when the series returns to Los Angeles for Game 6 on Sunday night.