Bill Plaschke: Grueling season and injured cornerstones left Dodgers too beat to reach World Series
ATLANTA — L.A. Beat.
The chants can stop now, their words transposed, their challenge answered, their silence deafening.
L.A. Beat.
In a year that seemed so invincible, the unthinkable has happened.
The Dodgers are done early. The Dodgers are out abruptly. The Dodgers’ journey toward a second consecutive World Series championship is prematurely, exasperatingly, go-ahead-and-scream-now finished.
After winning a franchise-tying record 106 games in the regular season, after capturing a thrilling wild-card playoff game against the St. Louis Cardinals, after surviving a monumental series against the ancient rival San Francisco Giants, the Dodgers finally met a mountain too high on a rowdy Saturday night in the South.
It ended with a lunging stop, a whipping throw, a stretching catch. It
