Dodgers 6, Astros 2

It won’t go down as one of Roberto Hernandez’s best performances — he faced five batters, walked two, gave up a double and had another batter reach on an error — but it will be one of his most memorable. The Dodgers reliever made his 1,000th career appearance tonight in a major-league career he was sure was never going to even happen when he had surgery as a minor leaguer on June 14, 1991, to have a dangerous blood clot removed from his right forearm. Unbelievably, even to him, he made his major-league debut later that summer, for the Chicago White Sox, in the same game that Bo Jackson came back from hip surgery. Sixteen years later, here he still is, reaching milestones. Congratulations to a class act, and one of the truly good guys in the Dodgers clubhouse. … Dodgers go to 62-59 and remain 6 1/2 behind the D-backs.