I know. I said Dodgers in six before the National League Championship Series began. Can I get a do-over – say, one that ends this series a little quicker?

And yes, I also know a 2-0 lead in a best-of-seven baseball series is not foolproof, just very good odds. Of the 93 previous instances in which a team won the first two, 78 of those went on to win. That means 15 teams blew a 2-0 lead.

The Dodgers themselves have been part of seven of those 15 comebacks, winning four of them. That includes the first one, the 1955 Brooklyn championship over the Yankees that was the first of the club’s eight titles. They’ve also come back from 0-2 to win World Series in 1965 against Minnesota and 1981 against the Yankees and the NLCS against Atlanta in 2020, the COVID season, and lost with a 2-0 lead in t

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