THE DODGERS WIN THE PENNANT!

For the first time since 1988, the Los Angeles Dodgers win the Pennant and will be in the World Series.  What a team!

Enrique Hernandez's pivotal grand slam to make it 7-0 in the third.

The End.

"It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. You count on it, rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops. Today, October 2, a Sunday of rain and broken branches and leaf-clogged drains and slick streets, it stopped, and summer was gone."

-A. Bartlett Giamatti, The Green Fields of the Mind

Scenarios

There are two great sorrows for a baseball fan.  The first is when your team is eliminated from World Series contention.  The second is when the baseball season ends with the conclusion of the World Series.

Tomorrow night, my Dodgers will be in a elimination scenario for the third time this season.  They find themselves down 3-2 as they head to Chicago where they will face the arduous task of winning two at The Friendly Confines. Chicago will have a great deal on the line as they have not won a Pennant since 1945 and have not won the World Series since 1908.

T-22 Hours.

A Picture Says a Thousand Words

Andrew Toles.  The Man, The Myth, The Legend.