The Dodgers’ season has reached the edge, but there’s still one narrow door left open.
Los Angeles trails the Milwaukee Brewers 0-3 in the NLCS, and Thursday’s Game 4 is the stop-sign moment. Lose, and the Dodgers are done - along with any shot at a three-peat. Win, and the series stays alive, with the task shifting from survival to something even more daunting: three straight victories just to complete the comeback.
That’s a monster ask. But ESPN’s David Schoenfield pointed to the one thing that keeps even a sliver of hope alive for the Dodgers if they can get through Game 4.
“So win Game 4, and then you have Skubal and Yamamoto lined up for Games 5 and 6 -- just like the Red Sox in 2004 had Pedro Martinez and Curt Schilling," Schoenfield writes. "Then, in Game 7, it's back to Snell and Robert Gasser."
That pitching alignment is the entire case for why this isn’t over just yet. If the Dodgers can grab Game 4 with Tyler Glasnow starting against a Brewers bullpen game, the path gets a little less impossible. Jacob Misiorowski and Logan Henderson would be back on the mound for Milwaukee, but the Dodgers would then have Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Tarik Skubal lined up for Games 5 and 6.
Of course, none of that matters if the offense stays quiet. Los Angeles has to hit, and it has to do it now. The Dodgers haven’t shown much life in the series so far, and that’s the biggest reason this deficit feels so severe.
Still, Game 4 gives them a chance to change the tone. If they win and the bats finally wake up, the idea of a 3-0 comeback stops being fantasy and starts being a real, if wildly difficult, possibility.
It’s a huge long shot, and almost certainly not the outcome anyone should expect. But it isn’t over yet. And for the Dodgers, that alone is enough to justify a little hope.
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