LAS VEGAS —
Daniel Mendez strolled into the dim bar Saturday in a Dodgers cap and a crisp white Clayton Kershaw jersey. The same necklace Mookie Betts wears — the one with a bat and baseball on a black string — hung around his neck. He was a few minutes late for the start of the Dodgers’ postseason opener against the Arizona Diamondbacks. But what could happen in just a few minutes? A lot, it turns out.
“What?! How?! Thirty-three pitches?!” Mendez yelled out, stupefied. “How did that happen?