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Cheating scandal leaves Dodgers fans feeling tagged out at home

LOS ANGELES - It's so difficult for lifelong Dodgers fan Joseph Daniels to talk about that magical October night in 2017, when his boys in blue clinched a spot in their first World Series in 29 years.

Daniels was there, at Wrigley Field, for Game 5 of the National League Championship Series against the Chicago Cubs. He was part of that blue-clad Dodgers crowd that just wanted to bask in the euphoria, that chanted "We're not leaving!" in the stands even after the stadium lights went down.

"It was surreal that we were actually going," said Daniels, a 32-year-old diesel mechanic from Crestline. "I was born in 1987, and the last one we won was in

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