All Ball Sports: World Series or Bust for the Dodgers; USC, UCLA stay the course, Redondo, Costa sunk
by Paul Teetor After six months of a regular season slog towards October, it’s finally time for Dodgers post-season baseball. It starts Tuesday night when the Dodgers host the San Diego Padres in game one of the League Divisional Series, also known as the Pacific Coast Series. Las Vegas oddsmakers say the Dodgers are the odds-on favorites to win the World Series this year – a designation that is usually the kiss of death. But there’s plenty of good reasons for the bookies to make the Dodgers heavy favorites. How amazing were the Dodgers this year? Let us count the ways. First, at 111-51 they had the fourth best record in all of major league baseball history. That’s a lot of teams over a lot of years. Second, they set a franchise record with 111 wins. Statistically, at least, that means this Dodgers team of Clayton and Mookie and Justin is better than the boys of summer team – Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella, Gil Hodges and Pee Wee Reese — who ruled the National League in the late 1940s and early ‘50s and finally won a World Series in 1955 before splitting for the left coast just three years later. Better than the early 1960s Dodgers teams of Sandy Koufax and Don…
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