How the Dodgers persisted to a World Series parade: 'No asterisk on this one'

31.10.2024 - 23:45 foxnews.com

NEW YORK — The Los Angeles Dodgers had heard the minimizing and belittling of their short-season championship in the hours and days and months and years since they dogpiled between the mound and home plate at Globe Life Field four seasons ago.

They believed what they did in 2020 amid adverse circumstances and a Texas bubble might have been harder and required even more than the typical season.

Every other team, after all, had the same chance they did. And yet … "You want the full season one, just to get that whole narrative out of the window," Gavin Lux said. "I think it kind of bugs everybody a little bit that you don't get the recognition that you deserve." For the past four years, it served as fuel, a little extra motivation to acquire the franchise's first full-season World Series championship since 1988.

The Dodgers had gone to the postseason 11 straight years before this one, with only one pandemic-shortened title to show for it.

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