'October baseball can be brutal': Dodgers found that out on Saturday, writes BNightengale
The Dodgers have not won a World Series in a full season in 34 years, so they are used to October letdowns, but this one felt different than all of the rest.
"It doesn’t take away the fact that this was a really good baseball team. We just didn’t win the World Series this year." "I’ll take away that we lost," Freeman said."I’ve been in a lot of October series we thought we were going to win, and we didn’t. There’s just a lot of disappointment. "You’ve got to give a lot of credit to the Padres," said Kershaw, who plans to return for another season."They played really well. They had great the whole series, and made big pitches when they had to.
It was an inning that will haunt the Dodgers all winter, watching a 3-0 lead turn into a 5-3 deficit that they could never recover. They had gone 74-0 when having a three-run lead or greater in the seventh inning until Saturday’s debacle. "They all suck," said Justin Turner, who hit .154 without an extra-base hit, run, or RBI."Obviously, the goal is to win a championship. To fall short of that in any round doesn’t matter."
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