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Hiroki Kuroda has big decisions ahead

Updated: July 17, 2011, 9:41 AM ET
By Tony Jackson | ESPNLosAngeles.com

PHOENIX -- Hiroki Kuroda made a fateful decision in the bottom of the second inning Saturday night, opting to throw a fastball on a full count to Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Brandon Allen. It stayed over the middle of the plate, Allen slammed it deep into the right-field stands for a three-run homer, and the Los Angeles Dodgers lost 3-2 to the Diamondbacks at Chase Field.

In the coming weeks and months, Kuroda will make a series of far bigger decisions, ones that will determine the ...

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