The Dodgers were battered. They were bleeding. They were backpedaling.
When they took the field at Chavez Ravine on Sunday afternoon against the Atlanta Braves, the Dodgers had lost the previous three games in this four-game series to inarguably the best team in baseball and they were beyond worried.
Is this how the potential National League Championship series would play out? Were they this badly mismatched against their biggest World Series roadblock? How could they stay on the same October field against an All-Star team that has just spent three nights pulverizing them?