The world according to Jim:

• I think we’ve figured out the Dodgers’ cheat code for October baseball. (And, readers of a certain age, don’t jump to conclusions. That term doesn’t mean what you may think it means. I’ll explain.)

The Dodgers’ secret weapon, in a sense, turned out to be marshaling their resources to make sure they had what they needed at the most important time of the year. Starting pitchers Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow and closer/folk hero Roki Sasaki were nurtured through injuries during the regular season, and those resets probably helped each be at his best by the most important point of the season. …

• For those still puzzled by the term, the Oxford English Dictionary defines “cheat code” as a “sequence of characters or movements with a controller which may be ente

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