Bill Plaschke: For Mike Scioscia and the Dodgers, it was catch and released
LOS ANGELES_The story has been whispered through the Dodgers' darkest corners for years.
It's a story of arrogance, ignorance and, ultimately, loss. It's a story about one brief incident in a distant minor league, yet a story that might have forever altered the history of a franchise.
It's about the night Los Angeles lost its Dodger.
The year was 1999, the setting was the Dodgers' triple-A affiliate in Albuquerque, and the moment occurred when Dukes manager Mike Scioscia walked to the mound to make a pitching change.
At that time, Scioscia had spent virtually his entire adult life in a Dodgers uniform, 22 years of quiet devotion to The Dodger Way, a tome that not only taught him, but defined him.
He was a first-round draft pick who
