By the time the Atlanta Braves recorded the final out, Dodger Stadium was already half empty.
Delirious the night before, the venue on Wednesday witnessed mostly despair.
The Dodgers lost to the Atlanta Braves 9-2 in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series, putting them into a 3-1 hole and on the verge of elimination.
They came back from such a hole last year but still don’t have history on their side. Of the 89 MLB teams who have ever faced a 3-1 deficit in a best-of-seven series, only 14 — including last year’s Dodgers in the NLCS — have come back to win.