By Bill Shaikin
Staff WriterFollow
Sept. 25, 2024 4 AM PT
The Dodgers open the playoffs next week, with the same question hanging over them that haunted them last year, and two years ago, and three years ago. None of those Octobers included a World Series, and this one does not offer much more optimism, because the Dodgers still cannot answer that one question.
Can anyone here pitch six innings?
Orel Hershiser is not walking through that door. In this day and age, complete games are a completely unrealistic expectation.