RAN WORLD SERIES
Yet at the beginning of this year, it is very likely none of these defending World Series champion Dodgers ever dreamed of it. At the beginning of the year, you take it.” “It’s about perspective and I think if anybody asks you if you want to play a one-game playoff game to continue to try to win a World Series, you take it. It’s a Game 7,” said Trea Turner, who hit his second grand slam in three days Sunday and has become this team’s best player. And the Cardinals will be starting Adam Wainwright, who has won 10 of his last 11 decisions, including a victory over the Dodgers in early September.Īnd the Dodgers must face him without their top slugger, as Max Muncy left the game Sunday in the third inning after appearing to seriously injure his left elbow in a collision at first base with Jace Peterson. And the Cardinals are the hottest team in baseball, winning 19 of 20 games down the stretch. If the Dodgers win that game, they will then play the Giants in a five-game division series that will mark their first true postseason matchup in history, which would be way cool.īut they first must wrestle with that stupid wild card. Instead of being seeded second in the National League’s playoff lineup, which would have happened in the NBA, the Dodgers are instead a wild-card team facing a scary winner-take-all game Wednesday at Dodger Stadium against the other wild-card team, the St.
But neither do the Dodgers, who finished with the most wins for a second-place team in baseball history, and what does that get them? Thanks to baseball’s wack postseason rules, it guarantees them all of one postseason game.
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