LOS ANGELES — Though it was impossible to see October from the on-deck circle at the All-Star Game in Denver, the future of the Los Angeles Dodgers ever so briefly met the present on that July evening.
As they prepared to hit at the start the eighth inning, Trea Turner, who was scheduled to lead off, looked at Justin Turner, who would bat second, and couldn’t help but note the moment. This, Trea told Justin, has got to be the first time two Turners have hit back-to-back in a lineup.
“Then, a few weeks later, he gets traded over here,” Justin Turner said during a recent batting-practice conversation in San Francisco, where the Dodgers were navigating a tension-filled N.