LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pitching close to home, Tyler Mahle wanted to give his family and friends something worth the drive from Orange County.
Early on, the Dodgers were running his pitch count high enough that Mahle figured he’d be gone.
“That would have been a bummer,” he said.
Instead, Mahle outdueled Walker Buehler in a matchup of 23-year-old righthanders, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the Los Angeles…