Alexander: So far, these dodgers are the kings of the rally

Los Angeles – Yeah, we know. A 162-0 season may not be a mathematical impossibility, but it is about an impossibility in baseball.

And it’s a bit early – in sense, waaaay Too early, in fact – to crown dodgers as the best team of all time, or assume that they will erase the major league record of 116 victories in one season.

(Although it should be remembered that in this Sprint of 60 games in pandemic in 2020 that people in other places like to denigrate, the Dodgers have recorded the fifth best percentage of victories in the history of the game, 0.716 with a record of 43-17. In fact, if you return to nine decimal points season.)

But forget it all, and remember for a while to project what this team could do or where it could land in October.

If you are a fan of Dodger, simply enjoy what is going on right now, because your team is once again watching special features.

They are 8-0. They finished their first home in 2025 6-0 and beat the two laureates of the Cy Young Award of last year, Tarik Skubal of the Detroit Tigers and Chris Sale of the Atlanta Braves.

They came from behind in six of these eight victories, and Wednesday evening was really spectacular. Decreasing 5-0 after a round and a half round and making defensive blunders that recall … UM, the New York 2024 Yankees in the World Series, the Dodgers have always found a means against a brave team still looking for their first victory of the season.

Max Muncy, who made two of their three errors and was 0 for 3 in his last at -bat, tore a double of two points on the right to equalize the scoring in the eighth, and Shohei Ohtani – of course, during his Bobblehead evening – sent people to the house with a circuit stroke to concentrate with an outing in the ninth for a victory of 6-5.

Here is the thing: the manager Dave Roberts maintains that his team does not play at all his best baseball. The sky helps the rest of the sport when they do.

For example, there was Murcy on Wednesday evening.

“Just the way the match started for him on the defensive side, then his first three strikers (Terch in the second, fly away on the right, withdraws) and continue to fight and not quit smoking,” said Roberts.

“This game continues to present opportunities. And you have to be ready for them. “

We have of course seen this darkness – stubbornness? – Many times in this group. This summit of the fifth of the Yankee Stadium on October 30 could be an example, or at least the most notable. But they led the league during the regular season of 2024 with 43 return victories.

Even with new players that the character seems to have postponed, and it is probably not an accident.

The veteran pick-up Michael Conforto dominated, walked twice and was based on its four strikers on Wednesday evening. Recruit Jack Dreyer has launched two perfect rounds, the eighth and ninth, and him and Ben Casparius – an end -of -year discovery last season and an important component in 24 eliminatory series – kept it close after Blake Snell was struggling early.

Roberts spoke during the World Series of last year on the way he loved guys who would not avoid the fight, saying that his players were “just more talented, but they remind me. I had tenacity, but I did not have the talent of Mookie Betts. Yes, I think yes, and I think that’s how it should be.

“I love people who are fighting. I don’t know if it’s my football history, but the playoffs, as I said on several occasions, it’s a fight. It’s a song. It is a dog fight. It must be like that. “

Before Wednesday evening’s match, he talked about his team with a chip on the shoulder. Subsequently, he developed.

“It is a kind of sign of, we are not careful for granted,” he said. “Each match, each stick is important, each game, which we did not do well tonight. But the goal does not wave. The competition. And Max was a perfect example this evening.”

Yes, part of this is an attitude, part, probably most of them, is an offensive baseball base. Consider the bottom of the second.

With this 5-0 deficit, Comforto started the round with a blow for a walk. Will Smith appeared for the first withdrawal, and Tommy Edman struck a 3 and 1 launch of the right-hander Bryce Elder to 415 feet above the central field fence to reduce the deficit to 5-2.

“We continue to take good at-bats,” said Roberts. “Comforto walked and he took boundar lands and led Tommy Homer who brought us back into the game. And just in a way able to make walks, work accounts, allows us to return to the Games without sometimes obtaining successes. And then we can wait for this big success. ”

When Comforto walked, according to the Gameday application of MLB, the probability of victory of the Dodgers was 13.9%. Oh, your computer of little faith.

The main thing: this team may or may not reach 117 or not, or may or may not break records at all, and it can or may not become the first team to go consecutive since the Yankees 1998-99-2000.

But it is easy to predict this: when you look at this team, you will be entertained.

And every time they are late, you would be stupid to turn it off early.

jalexander@scng.com

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