{"id":263909,"date":"2025-11-01T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263909\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T00:44:10","slug":"dodgers-need-to-fix-three-things-to-stay-alive-in-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/263909\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers need to fix three things to stay alive in World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 Fissures are <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/30\/sports\/dodgers-lineup-hitting-like-400m-mess-with-season-on-brink\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">showing in the $400 million Dodgers<\/a>. Actually, it\u2019s more than fissures, more like cracks, Southern Cal earthquake-style cracks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Baseball\u2019s superteam was still in this World Series thanks to superhuman performances from Yoshinobu Yamamoto in Game 2 and Shohei Ohtani in Game 3, but concerns were growing heading into Game 6. It\u2019ll take a significant turnaround for the Dodgers to become the first repeat World Series champion since the 2000 Yankees, a full generation ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>All or most of these things will need to get better for LA to pull off the repeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1.) The hitting. The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/29\/sports\/shohei-ohtani-received-ivs-after-historic-world-series-performance\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">great Shohei Ohtani needs more help<\/a>. As great as Ohtani is, one man can\u2019t comprise an offense, especially if the Blue Jays are going to walk or pitch around him.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 Fissures are showing in the $400 million Dodgers. Actually, it\u2019s more than fissures, more like cracks,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[2323,363,99,362,358,364,19632],"class_list":{"0":"post-263909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-sports-columnists","12":"tag-sports-plus","13":"tag-toronto-blue-jays","14":"tag-world-series"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}