The Dodgers Are Down, So Who Is Up?

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97 MPH, Strike Three. “The Dodgers Have Won It All In 2020.

When the 2020 World Series Concluded. celebration for The Dodgers Baseball team Began, simultaneously, So Did Their Pitch To Repeat.

After 32 Years of world series Anonymity, the Dodgers Mounted Another Pendant In Their Case. Within that Span, the Boston Red Sox Ended Their Title Drought and Added Two titles to the Process. The Dodgers’ NL West Rivals the ArizonaDiamondbackss, A team Conceived 10 Year Post Dodger’s 88 Title Hoisted The Commissioner Trophy in 2001. The Team Conceived Alongside the D-back s The Tampa Ray Also Mustered a World Series appearance All These Amongst Many Others Before The Dodgers captured the Pennant once More. Then 2020 happened. Within Their Bid not to return To The Obscurity Of  Their 32 Years of World Series invisibility. the dodgers Celebrated Under Covid protocols Of Course And Immediately return To the Business.

That portion of the franchise's darkest history was over with. Dodgers’ Ace, Clayton Kershaw’s Postseason Reputation, Inconclusive… Their Recent Years Of Falling One Out, One Hit, One 2 Seamer Short of  Championship aspiration,  done with. The Disappointments could be pushed of 2017, 2018, 2008, erased, in an instant. Smothered under the  Jubilation That Had Begun. The City Of LA Was Home To tCommissioners'sers Trophy And all things behind it washed Away in its Wake; Except It Didn’t.

 

The Records Books Declare the Dodger as Dominant. We witnessed, Three Straight Strikeouts By Julio Ruiz, As Clear As Day. The Suken Expression of the Rays Indistuishable 2020 Was the Year It Allcma e TOgethr For The Dodgers LA Proved, in the Words of Joe Buck That They Can Beat You A variety of way, “Power, Speed, ..Clutch Pitching.”, Facets Of The Game The Franchise and Long Collected Ahd Yet to put Together In One Series, one. mOment, until 2020.

 

By The End Of The Trophy Presentation, Questions were Levied. This Postseason Would Be Judged Under A different light, this season Was an Aberration. The World Series Was Competitive 6 games that were still bathed in the preordained aura. The Final Out, like drive Thru Breakfast Sandwich, satisfying but Unfulfilling.  The Dodgers won, no question. I say this because it still felt hollow. No Need To Speak Of It reason Known, How Should This Teams’ success Be Judge Under The Crown, Code Name Covid-19.

An Asterisk Loomed Over the 2020 season That Represented the Banner Of Believe.  That Asterisk, that Anomaly that difference Would be all That The world viewed. No Matter Their Core of Talented Infielders And Outfielders Comprised of Both Young And Experienced Core Of Take dodger Were Expected To Make The MLB Playoff And Per Predictive Machines, Straight forward to the prize. Perhaps fearing falling to the fate of world series. Favorites of the past, who flopped at the chance to extend their championship window beyond the frame and hinges that opened it.  The 2021 Rendition Of The Boys In Blue Would hold most of its composition, minus Slugger Joc Pederson, But the Dodger’s Brass made The Move Of the Offseason Signnimg 2020 Cy Young Winner Trevor Bauer, vastly Improving Baseball’s best Pitching rotation.

 

After starting the season 14-3 they fell into spell 3-15 before rebounding 14-5. No Longer The Almighty Juaguarnaut Of Baseball The Dodgers Have Fallen. Now That The Domineering Dodgers Are In The Dumps Who Owns The Top Spot Of The Baseball World. It’s June, Most Of The Majors Playoff Teams Have risen from The Amongst the Lump of the field. now all thats is left is the quandary of where these teams stand in comparison to each other

 

 

 

Tamao Bay Rays

Former Foes Of The Dodgers a world series ago Baseball’s Most cash conservative team in the is earning high mark once again through two months of baseball. This meager franchise seems to Always Manage a mighty contender. Tampa Is Magic The Team Is One Of Only three Teams In The Majors That Are Top 10 In Era, Run Deffiential And Lowest errors Averaged. Rays Ace Tyler Glasgow  Is Leading The Charge On the Mound WithAn Era Of 2.56. The rays have Been A Shoo-in for The Playoff Consistently, For Almost A decade Now Year Is N Different Though they Face. Winners of 16 of their past 17 games the Rays Are running away with the Fiercely Competitive  Al East.

 

 Chicago White Sox

The Chicago White Sox Are Eberyones Favorite Team These Days, Every Power Ranking from Espn To SI, To The Athletic  Rank the AL Latest Power House  No Worst Than fifth On The Boards, And For Good Reason. The White Sox Avowal  The Hottest Record In the Mid West And the Hottest city Connect Uniforms I have Seen In A While. Currently, the Team stands At a  95.9 % chance of making the postseason s the leading team of AL central By wide Margin In Run differential. Statically the team is Top 5 in Majors in Era, RBIs, And A On Base Percentage. A Measurable improvement From where They Stood In The central Sime Two years Ago, 2020 Never happened.  Lead By Jose Abreu Yesmin Mecerdez Yoan Monada And the gracefully improving Nick Madrigal In Fary Amongst TAlenetd Hitters. The White Sox A Ace Away From Improving that 13% chance of a world berth The Potential, Their Picthung Has to Improve With The Recent Spark Of Lucas Giolito To help The team contend. The Team Has Not been Tested in the Al Central, So How Good Is Cjicago’s fifth favorite Franchise? They May Make A Move Come The Trade Deadline.

 San Diego Padres

Once upon a time, the After Thought Of The Dodgers In NL West. The Padres now roam the Forefront Of The Major League Baseball 2nd Most Competitive Division (AL East being the first), The National League As A Conference (The Cubs Are Holding Up warning Signs), And Majors In entirely. Manny Machado Is Slumping In His At Still The Pads are Poised to Make A Push For the Pennant, forged Upon their Remarkable Rn through the Postsoeasn from A Year Ago. Dependant Heavily On their Sluggers The Padare Will go as Far As 22-year-old Tatis Jr. Can lift The Leagues Leaders in run differential, Top 10(8) in Home runs, lead By Tatis Jr.’s 16 And top 10 in OBP(On Base Percentage)(6) The Amount Of At Bats They convert Into Base rUnners And Ultimately Score Opportunities.

 

 

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