August 26th, 2019 at 3:15 pm 
by Ron Cervenka Suffice to say, Dodger fans are less than pleased with what they saw from their beloved team this past weekend against the (likely) American League East champion New York Yankees at Dodger Stadium. Although the Dodgers weren’t swept by the Bronx Bombers, they came within a clutch Justin Turner two-run home run in a very exciting game-2 of the three-game series from being so.
Barring a meltdown of biblical proportions, the Dodgers will win their seventh consecutive National League West division title. As such, and if they finish the regular season with the highest winning percentage in the National League (including Wild Card teams), they will have home-field advantage throughout the postseason – including the World Series (i.e., games 1, 2, 6 and 7).
In other words, the Dodgers absolutely must continue their dominance over National League teams in the 25 remaining games against them and also in the five remaining interleague games – three against the Baltimore Orioles and two against the Tampa Bay Rays. Fortunately, 22 of those 25 remaining games against NL teams are against teams within their own division, whom they have pretty much owned thus far this season … so there’s that.
Should the Dodgers do so and should they make it back to the Fall Classic, they would have home-field advantage. But here again, they must have the highest regular-season winning percentage which, quite frankly, is pretty much a given.
…unless the Dodgers get ‘Yankee’d’ again along the way, if you get my drift.
Play Ball!
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Have you watched Bellinger;s swing lately? He is stepping in the bucket with his front foot towards first base,front shoulder flying out and that is why he late on fast balls he use to crush. Needs to make an adjustment sooner than later.
According to Jessie Pearce the Yankees have HFA in the World Series if they play the Dodgers because they won the season series. Which of you two is correct?
I believe only if their season records are exactly the same. Taking 2 of 3 by the Yankees would be the tie breaker for home field advantage.
If the two pennant winners go into the World Series with identical regular season records, tiebreakers are used to determine home field advantage. The league first looks to the teams’ head-to-head record in the regular season. If they did not play in the regular season, the tiebreaker would go to the team with the better overall record in their respective divisions. If that, too, is a tie, then the team with the better record within their league gets home field advantage.