{"id":217026,"date":"2025-10-16T10:10:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217026\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:10:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T10:10:07","slug":"have-the-dodgers-finally-cracked-the-postseason-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217026\/","title":{"rendered":"Have the Dodgers Finally Cracked the Postseason Code?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate after beating the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 in Game 2 of the NLCS on October 14, 2025. (Michael Reaves\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

In steamrolling the Milwaukee Brewers \u2014 MLB\u2019s best team<\/a> during the regular season \u2014 to open the National League Championship Series, the Los Angeles Dodgers have reawakened the fears many had about their potential \u201cmegateam\u201d<\/a> back before the 2025 season began.<\/p>\n

Through a pair of games<\/a>, both in Milwaukee, L.A. has outscored the Brew Crew 7-2, outhit them 18-5, out-AVG-ed them .273 to .086, out-OBP-ed them .400 to .143, and out-OPS-ed them .900 to .298. Both Dodger starters, Blake Snell and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, combined for 17 innings and had an average Game Score of 86.5. It was as thorough a domination of a fellow elite ballclub as we\u2019ve seen this entire postseason.<\/p>\n

As part of this, I\u2019ve seen a lot of chatter<\/a> that the Dodgers planned all of this out perfectly \u2014 that, in fact, they were built to do this all along. That, like a LeBron James-led NBA superteam<\/a>, their good-but-not-dominant regular season<\/a> was merely a deliberate prelude to the real potential of this squad being revealed \u2014 because the regular season means nothing, and L.A. has finally found the secret postseason sauce every team covets so desperately.<\/p>\n

Which, good for them if true. People have been trying to crack that code<\/a> for a very long time time, basically to no avail. And certainly I, armed with all my regular-season data points<\/a>, clearly underestimated these Dodgers (or overestimated the Brewers \u2014 same difference). But it\u2019s worth asking: Did L.A. really \u201cfigure out\u201d October \u2014 or is October just cooperating with them more than usual?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Freddie Freeman of the Los Angeles Dodgers celebrate after beating the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-217026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}