Dodgers chased Giants until end…and ran into wild-card game
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Dodgers chased Giants until end…and ran into wild-card game

LA Times  

Dodgers right fielder Gavin Lux stands in front of the scoreboard during the eighth inning of a 10-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday. 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. Louis Cardinals. Eventually they acquired Scherzer and Turner, and eventually the offense took off, and the Dodgers finished the season playing their best baseball, 45 wins in their last 60 games, two wins better than last season’s 60-game season in which they were the best team in the league. “The whole point is to get through the season and peak at the right time, and I said it for the last week, we’re playing our best baseball.” But the Giants, a mix of revived veterans and career-year role players perfectly collected by former Dodgers general manager Farhan Zaidi, just wouldn’t fade. “The people that don’t appreciate what an organization does over the course of six months and thinks it’s a waste, they have no clue … to discredit, in any way, the regular season is very, very shortsighted and very ignorant,” Roberts said, later adding, “People who share that view are clueless and haven’t been in the grind and understand what it takes to win 100 games in a major league season.” Agreed, cheers to a major accomplishment only outdone by an even more historic season in San Francisco.

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