The Los Angeles Dodgers continue in their quest to repeat as World Series champions, but as September turns to October the Dodgers still find themselves in a dogfight for first place in the NL West.
As of this writing despite having the second-best record in all of baseball the Dodgers are one game behind their rivals the San Francisco Giants, meaning if the season ended today they’d play in the do-or-die NL Wild Card Game.
The prospect of the season ending after the 163rd game is stressful just thinking about it. Fear not though, because the Dodgers have an ace up their sleeve that should be striking fear into either the Cardinals, Reds, Padres or Phillies/Braves (it’s getting wild!