After Punting Game 4, Dodgers Will Push to Win it All Tonight
There wasn't a sweep. There was never going to be a sweep.
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I make a lot of baseball predictions, which means I am wrong way more often than I am right. For instance, before the season began I predicted the Rangers would repeat as World Series champions and that Spencer Strider would capture the NL Cy Young award. Uh. LOL. Strider was hurt all year and the Rangers were terrible.
But yesterday I got it right.
If you read my Game 4 preview before the game then you already knew what would happen and didn’t even need to watch. Even my mom was gagged when I told her I would watch Game 4 at home alone from my couch because I am fried and the Dodgers weren’t going to win a world championship yesterday.
Here’s what I wrote:
The Dodgers bullpen may be magnificent, but Treinen looks exhausted, and Vesia, Banda, and Kopech can’t go four times in five days. LA is going to punt this game like they chucked Games 2 and 5 of the NLCS by using rookie Ben Casparius as the opener, and rookie Landon Knack and journeyman Brent Honeywell as the bulk relievers. These three men would be in the minor leagues if the team didn’t have TEN pitchers who were better on the injured list right now. They even cut Honeywell in August and were able to send him in the minors when no other team claimed him.
If you had told me that the Dodgers were going to try to clinch the World Series in the Bronx with those three on the mound even a month ago I would have called you insane. And yet here we are. Staring down a World Series punt while understanding that losing this game in order to win the war is the correct thing for the Dodgers to try to do.
LA has four chances to win one game. Resting the A-list arms and hoping the offense steals this game and ends this series tonight is absolutely the right call.
I just do not think the MLB season will end tonight.
I understand that many Dodger fans are incensed, and that supporters of other fanbases are confused: why on Earth would the Dodgers not go for the kill when only trailing by a run in the fifth inning?
Well, it’s pretty simple:
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