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Dave Roberts was toast.
Out the window. Kicked to the curb. Yesterday’s news.
Well, almost. Had Roberts’ 98-win Dodgers lost one more game to the 93-win Padres in last season’s National League divisional round, one of the most successful managers of his era almost certainly would have been fired.
Instead, the Dodgers took the last two games of that series en route to their second World Series championship under Roberts, who was rewarded in the offseason with a four-year extension worth $8.