Determined Dodgers Take World Series crown By Jason Taylor

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Latimes.com 


After countless years of heartbreak, Dodgers fans rejoice as they watch their team be crowned as the 2020 World Series Champions. Since 2013 the question for the Dodgers was not if they were going to make the playoffs. That was always a guarantee. The question became are they going to choke again this year? 

Since 2013 the Dodgers postseason results have become almost comical to see how great of a team they have just to become so truly terrible at the end. 

2013-NLCS loss to Cardinals

2014-NLDS loss to Cardinals

2015-NLDS loss to Mets

2016-NLCS loss to Cubs

2017-World Series loss to Astros

2018-World Series loss to Red Sox

2019-NLDS loss to Nationals 

The Dodgers have been waiting for a chance to hold the commissioner's trophy since they last did it 1988. Arguably the Dodgers have been the best team of the 2010’s having been so dominant for all these years. With that being said they didn’t have anything to show for it until now. 

The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Tampa Bay Rays in 6 games to finally sit on their well deserved golden throne atop the baseball world. The Dodgers got help from their stars like Corey seager, Cody Bellinger and their future hall of fame pitcher Clayton Kershaw. All three of these men were on the team in 2017 and ‘18 when they lost the series. Clayton Kershaw though got the biggest redemption because he proved all the haters wrong. All the people who said “he can’t pitch in October” or “he is the biggest choke artist in baseball history”. To an extent those people were not wrong because in his career Kershaw has been abysmal in the playoffs. Kershaw has a 13-12 record with a 4.19 ERA a lot higher than his regular season ERA of 2.43. All of the Dodgers are well deserving of this win so this is only one thing everyone can say, congratulations.


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