Growing up MANNY…
September is the month that baseball’s chip contenders assert themselves.
The key is to be playing most of these games on your homefield. The Dodgers are not. They are playing 15 of their final 26 games away from Chavez Ravine. The comforting news is that 21 of those 26 games is against the Nationals, Pirates, Padres and Diamondbacks. No pushovers by any stretch since everyone is a professional big leaguer, but no playoff contenders in that group.
If the Dodgers are going to cement their seeding for the National League playoffs they will do it now.
I’m still holding out for a Boston x Los Angeles World Series where MANNYwood goes apeshit on Beantown.
Yankees vs. Dodgers would be classic autumn drama as well especially with the JOE TORRE storyline.