For starters, Dodgers’ road back to World Series was very different

TORONTO — With four aces, the Dodgers are playing a very different hand in this year’s postseason.

“We’ve talked about this a lot,” Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman said as the team celebrated its National League Championship Series victory and became the first defending champ to make it back to the World Series since the Philadelphia Phillies in 2008-09.

“There’s just a lot of different ways to win a World Series. Last year we did it in a very different way than we have so far this year. We had a dominant bullpen. Our starters weren’t as accomplished as this group. But our lineup filled in the gap. We had a really good team last year. We’re just doing it a slightly different way (this year). And again, there are a lot of different ways to do it. But it is fun t