Perhaps it’s just a false alarm, and order will soon be restored. Maybe we’ll feel sheepish for trying to derive interest from a playoff slog for now devoid of drama.
Yet it doesn’t seem too soon to sound the alarm, to go full fatalist, to ponder a National League postseason field without a pair of stalwarts.
In short: Will the Atlanta Braves and Los Angeles Dodgers miss the playoffs?
It’d certainly look weird. The Dodgers have qualified for the playoffs 11 consecutive years, 10 of those as winners of the NL West.