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The\u00a0Los Angeles Dodgers\u00a0will face the\u00a0San Diego Padres\u00a0in spring training on Sunday, marking the first game between the two division foes since the Dodgers came back against the Padres to win the National League Division Series last October.<\/p>\n

During that series, tensions rose in Game 2. Dodgers fans threw items at Padres outfielders and Padres third baseman Manny Machado got in a heated exchange with then Dodgers pitcher Jack Flaherty after Machado threw a baseball toward the Dodgers’ dugout, narrowly missing manager Dave Roberts.<\/p>\n

Roberts called the throw from Machado “unsettling”\u00a0back in October. “It was unsettling,” Roberts said. “Obviously I have a relationship with Manny from years past. There was intent behind it. It didn’t almost hit me because there was a net. And that was very bothersome. If it was intended at me, I would be very — it’s pretty disrespectful.”<\/p>\n

Roberts\u00a0seemed to retract\u00a0some of those initial sentiments later in the series, and the Dodgers would go on to defeat the Padres and win the World Series later that month.<\/p>\n

It seems that any potential hard feelings between Roberts and Machado have faded since that series ended. Ahead of Sunday’s spring training game, Roberts went as far as to say he loves Machado, who played under him on the Dodgers in 2018, “like a son.”<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re in an intense series,\u201d Roberts said this week, via\u00a0Jeff Sanders of the San Diego Union-Tribune. \u201cHe\u2019s going to do whatever he can to do to help his team win, and I\u2019m going to do the same. I love him like a son, and that\u2019ll never change, but we\u2019re both competitors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Machado has also left that series behind, saying last week that the “the past is the past.”<\/p>\n

The Dodgers and Padres will face off in the regular season in June. Expect the upcoming series between two World Series contenders to remain competitive as ever.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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