Dodgers Can't Cash Pitching Edge as Braves Walk Off in Extras, 6-5

The Paddock swung and missed on this one, and it stings. We backed the Dodgers at -132 on what looked like a slam-dunk pitching mismatch—Roki Sasaki's steady 4.42 ERA against AJ Smith-Shawver fresh off elbow reconstruction and sporting a ghastly 6.23 ERA. The logic was bulletproof: nearly two runs of ERA separation,…