Column: What happened? Dodgers go from miracle comeback to three hours of collapsing cringe
Momentum? Couldn’t find it. Inspiration? Never had it. Season? About to lose it. One night after one of the most emotional comeback playoff victories in franchise history, the Dodgers inexplicably strolled into Chavez Ravine on Wednesday night without focus or fight. They followed one game’s miracle with nine innings of nothingness. They surrendered one night’s intimidation with three hours of ...
by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times
Oct 21, 2021
4 minutes
Momentum? Couldn’t find it.
Inspiration? Never had it.
Season? About to lose it.
One night after one of the most emotional comeback playoff victories in franchise history, the Dodgers inexplicably strolled into Chavez Ravine on Wednesday night without focus or fight.
They followed one game’s miracle with nine innings of nothingness.
They surrendered one night’s intimidation with three hours of cringe.
They shrugged, sighed and were sucker punched.
The Atlanta Braves beat the Dodgers with six relief pitchers, beat them while facing 20-game winner Julio Urías, beat them silly and sideways and maybe even beat them into next season.
The 9-2 victory by the Braves in Game 4 of the
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