Dodgers wrap up another division title while keeping eyes on the ultimate prize
by Jorge Castillo, Los Angeles Times
Sep 11, 2019
4 minutes
BALTIMORE - Before the Los Angeles Dodgers popped another round of champagne bottles to celebrate another division title Tuesday night, manager Dave Roberts stopped the festivities and made a request. He insisted that they FaceTime Alex Verdugo and Max Muncy.
Verdugo and Muncy, two pillars in the Dodgers' expeditious cruise to a seventh straight National League West crown, were not with the team for its division-clinching 7-3 win over the bumbling Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday. They watched on television from afar, injuries keeping them from the alcohol-soaked ritual seven months in the making.
"No man left behind," Roberts shouted as they rushed to get the players' faces on the line in
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