September 28th, 2019 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka It was around June 1st when we began hearing it. Or was it May 1st? Or April 17th?
“The Dodgers are on pace to win 104 games.”
Whenever it was, it was definitely early in the 2019 season – very early.
On Friday night, September 27, with exactly three games remaining in the 2019 regular season, it happened – win number 104 – and it happened at the best possible place on Earth – Oracle Park (formerly AT&T Park, formerly SBC Park, formerly Pac Bell Park) in San Francisco, home of the (now) 77-83 National League West third-place Giants. In doing so, the Dodgers tied their LA Dodgers record for most wins in a season with the 2017 team and did so in grand fashion – by pummelling their most hated rivals by a final score of 9-2.
As most Dodger fans know, the Dodgers moved into first place in the NL West on Wednesday, April 17th.
They never left it.
On June 16, they had their first double-digit lead over the rest of the division.
They never lost it.
In fact, following Friday night’s win and (now) with only two games remaining in the regular season, the 104-56 Dodgers have a ridiculous 21-game lead over the NL West second-place Arizona Diamondbacks.
That’s the good news.
The bad news is that the American League West Division-leading Houston Astros also won on Friday night to improve their record to a MLB-best 105-55 and are now only one win away from clinching home-field advantage throughout the postseason – including the World Series – should that make it there.
The worse news is that the Astros final two remaining regular-season games are against the AL West fourth-place 72-88 Angels of Anaheim, who are without MLB’s best player and likely 2019 AL MVP Mike Trout due to season-ending surgery on his right foot for Morton’s neuroma. In other words, the Dodgers can expect exactly zero help from the team which – for monetary reasons only – call themselves the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, even though they aren’t even located in LA County.
(Video capture courtesy of LA Dodgers)
Regardless, the 2019 Los Angeles Dodgers of Los Angeles could very well finish the 2019 campaign with a new all-time franchise record of 106-56 en route to their seventh consecutive postseason appearance, and how can you not absolutely love that.
…unless you’re a Giants fan, of course.
Play Ball!
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Correct me if I’m wrong. The Dodgers have never won a World Series after winning 100 regular season games. As you might know I’m a great believer in the law of averages, so this might be the year.
There’s a history of the Dodgers losing 2 world series then winning two. Lost in 77/78, won in 81/88. Lost in 17/18. Here’s to the pattern persisting!
I like the way you think. However, you have to get to the World Series to win the World Series.
I am amazed at how many people already have the Dodgers written onto their scorecards. Just saying.
Much as I LOVE the Dodgers and will be over the moon if they win the World Series, it’s almost unheard of to achieve three consecutive WS appearances and then to win the third one. Correct me if I’m wrong but only Ruth’s Yankees of the 1920’s did it?
Despite that, anything can happen and I’m rooting for it. They seem to have evolved (devolved?) to alternating between offensive explosions and offensive slumbers. The bullpen has also become feast or famine. Fortunately more of the former lately and it couldn’t be happening at a better time.
GO GO GO DODGERS!!!!!
Everything is unprecedented until it happens the first time.
This from my observation of last night’s Dodger’s 9 to 2 win:
Did anyone notice that Dodgers, despite winning 9 to 2 still struck out 13 times? Those K’s will be exposed come the PS. On Giants broadcast (From where I live the Dodger’s broadcasts are blacked out due to local pro sports teams’ TV rights when they play Giants), Krukow mentioned that if he had a team preparing to face the Dodgers in the PS he would gather every LHP he could get a hold of.. And if ya watched last night’s game you would understand why he said that. Dodgers score all their 9 runs and hit those 3 HR’s of a RHP and did absolutely NOTHING against those Giant LHP