Let me take a moment to give you a flashback.
It’s October 2017. The Los Angeles Dodgers are having the best season they’ve had in years. The best season since their reign of dominance over the NL West began. They collected 104 wins over the course of the regular season, cruised to win the National League pennant, and only a talented but upstart Houston Astros team stood in the way on the Dodgers path to their first World Series title since 1988.
But the Astros were able to do what no other team had accomplished. They solved the Dodgers pitching staff — including a prime Clayton Kershaw and Kenley Jansen in Game 5 — en route to beating LA in seven games and taking the title from the Dodgers.