The hulking, billion-dollar behemoth better known as the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers were heavily favored to repeat at the beginning of 2025 but stumbled through the regular season due to several injuries and a shaky bullpen. But L.A. is firing on all cylinders in October. The Dodgers are 9-1 in the playoffs. Their starting rotation, consisting of aces Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and some guy named Shohei Ohtani, tore through the 97-win Milwaukee Brewers in the NLCS, posting a 0.63 ERA in 28 2\/3 innings. <\/p>\n
Snell faced the minimum and allowed only one hit in Game 1, Yamamoto threw a complete game in Game 2, Glasnow scattered three hits across 5 2\/3 innings in Game 3 \u2014 but they all paled to what Ohtani did in Game 4: six-plus shutout innings, 10 strikeouts and three towering solo home runs, the second of which sailed entirely over the right-field bleachers at Dodger Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hulking, billion-dollar behemoth better known as the defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. The Dodgers were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-228641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}