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Bill Plaschke: Dodgers go from biggest winners to biggest losers with season-ending loss to Padres

SAN DIEGO — They have flopped before, countless wonderful summers cruelly melted into autumn ashes. But they’ve never blown it like this. They have been embarrassed before, many memorable summer marches ruined by staggering October stumbles. But they’ve never been humiliated like this. Barely a week after setting a franchise record with 111 regular-season victories, the biggest winners in ...
Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Tyler Anderson works during the first inning against the San Diego Padres in Game 4 of the National League Division Series at Petco Park on Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022, in San Diego.

SAN DIEGO — They have flopped before, countless wonderful summers cruelly melted into autumn ashes.

But they’ve never blown it like this.

They have been embarrassed before, many memorable summer marches ruined by staggering October stumbles.

But they’ve never been humiliated like this.

Barely a week after setting a franchise record with 111 regular-season victories, the biggest winners in Dodgers history have blundered into a vastly different moniker.

The Biggest Losers.

On a rare rainy Saturday night at San Diego’s Petco Park, an even stranger event occurred — the sight of the San Diego Padres dancing across

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