Baseball is an interesting sport. It provides hope even when there is no reason to have hope. But this hope didn’t come from nowhere. In a small sample size of games - of which three certainly qualify - anybody can beat anybody. So even if you don’t like your odds, you can have hope you will win that day. It may not be a lot of hope. But if you’re sitting down watching the game, there is some part of you that thinks “We might win this.”

Kind of a weird way to start a series preview, but I imagine zero of you are wondering why I’m starting it this way. It’s because we are facing the juggernaut Los Angeles Dodgers , who are of course in first place and destined for another playoff appearance and probably more. In a way, there is no real reason to write a series preview against a team like

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