None of it matters if you don’t hit: Dodgers one loss away from losing World Series

In failure and in success, the Dodgers have gotten used to the burden of expectation, routinely taking on the role of Goliath, so to speak. Seldom has there been a moment in which you could realistically claim this team is outmatched, even in past eliminations. Now, as they go down 3-2 in the World Series with a Game 5 defeat at home, the Dodgers didn’t just dig quite a hole for themselves, but whether it should or not be the case, they’ve been outmatched for the better part of this series.

With a quick rewind of recent campaigns, probably the last time that the Dodgers seemed to unquestionably be the inferior team in a playoff series was in 2018, when a pretty underwhelming Dodger team, given this era, ran into the buzzsaw that was the Boston Red Sox. This time around, no matter which wa