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道奇队8比2胜红人，西区五连冠
Dodgers Clinch 5th Straight NL West Title
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The Dodgers won 8–2 over the Reds and claimed a fifth straight NL West title, while Kyle Tucker collected four hits. HSK 2 Chinese listening practice.
This is an HSK 2 Chinese listening episode that runs about 1 minute. The full Mandarin script is shown with tap-for-pinyin and a line-by-line English translation, so you can listen and read at once — comprehensible input in the sense of Stephen Krashen's i+1 theory. It teaches 8 key vocabulary words such as 第一、准备、房间 and walks through 3 grammar patterns, each explained in English with examples. The same news story is retold at 4 difficulty levels — use the level selector above to find the version that is challenging but still understandable for you.
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English transcript reference
On September 17, the Dodgers played the Reds.
Many people were watching this game.
The Dodgers scored eight runs; the Reds scored two.
At eight to two, the Dodgers won.
With that win, the Dodgers took the West division title.
This was their fifth year winning that title.
For five years, many teams wanted first place.
But the Dodgers finished first every year.
Tucker also played very well in this game.
Tucker had four hits.
A hit means a player hits the ball and can run.
Tucker had four hits in one game, and many people watched him.
The Dodgers players were happy and celebrated in the locker room.
But the West division title is not the World Series title.
The Dodgers won the World Series in both 2024 and 2025.
Now they want to win it again, but those games have not happened yet.
At that point, they still had nine games to play.
So they could celebrate today and prepare again tomorrow.
If you were Tucker after winning the West, would you celebrate first or think about the next game?
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What vocabulary does this episode teach?
词汇可是，道奇队年年都第一。
所以今天可以庆祝，明天还要准备。
道奇队的球员很高兴，他们在房间里庆祝。
现在，他们还有九场球要打。
八比二，道奇队赢了。
赢球以后，道奇队拿到西区冠军。
塔克有四支安打。
道奇队的球员很高兴，他们在房间里庆祝。
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What grammar patterns appear in this episode?
语法以后
Use 以后 to mean after an event.
赢球以后，道奇队拿到西区冠军。
可是
可是 introduces a contrast.
可是西区冠军，不是世界大赛冠军。
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