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Dodgers-Braves get rain delay update in close game

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves played eight hard-fought innings Friday night.

They had to wait to play the ninth.

At about 9:25 p.m. ET, the game was sent into a rain delay in Atlanta.

The Dodgers led 2-1 at the time of the delay after the final out of the eighth.

L.A. had opened the scoring in the fourth inning when a Will Smith sacrifice fly scored Mookie Betts.

Then in the sixth, Betts pulled a home run to left-center to take a 2-0 lead.

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The Braves answered back in bottom seven on a Matt Olson homer.