I'm getting hoped out, Fritz.
My team is struggling to stay afloat. This year has been met with struggle after struggle.
Right at the start our star short-stop, Corey Seager, has to have surgery and will be knocked out for the season.
Our star 3rd baseman, Justin Turner, got hit on the hand in the last spring training game by a pitch and it broke
his wrist. So he was out for months and been struggling to even play and return to normal the last two weeks. One
by one ALL of our starting pitchers (ALL OF THEM) were on the disabled list all at the same time! Among other things.
But we managed to crawl back near the top, with the help of two fantastic new players and the pitchers returning one
by one to the lineup. And then when it seems we might start advancing ahead of the pack, our star closer Kenley Jansen,
who has the most saves this year and who comes on after our shaky bullpen starters work in the 7th-8th innings, is out
with heart problems. Heart problems no less! The Dodgers are being tested in ways I've never seen so cumulatively at
every turn this year. And yet we've stayed around the top all this time, but this week it's hard to look in the future and
have that hope. 8 out of the 9 last games the Dodgers have played have been 1 run affairs and we came out on the
losing end of 5 of them. We played Colorado the last 4 games and Colorado stated "to stay in the race in the NL West
we need to win at least 3 of the 4 games to have a chance." That's exactly what they did. And with Jansen out in the
last inning this week the last two games were brutal for the Dodgers. We were ahead for 8 2/3 inning in game 3 and
lost it with a home run at the last at bat. Yesterday was even worse. We were behind the whole game, but tied it up
in the 9th. In the bottom of the 9th we WALKED IN THE WINNING RUN for Colorado. Humiliating. Devastating. And
that put Colorado right next to us in the standings and put Arizona 1 game ahead for the first time in several weeks.
I'm sure in Los Angeles the fans are paying way more attention to
everything because none of us have gotten over
the 7th game of the World Series last November 1st. And we want that to go away. No matter that history says it's so difficult.
But it's one thing to go through a season where the normal things plague a team from time to time, but it seems this season
the Dodgers are being tested way out of normality. I mean, your closer now has a heart condition! What's next? The second
baseman is pregnant? An earthquake? We run out of Dodger Dogs?