As Major League Baseball enters the final week of its regular season, let’s identify the rarefied and the rotten, those teams, players and managers who over six months separated themselves from the pack, some heroically, others horrendously.
Five up. Five down. Excuse us for a tilt toward Los Angeles since we are charged first and foremost with covering this City of Angels and Dodgers.
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1. Shohei Ohtani. 50-50 already seems so rear-view mirror. The Dodgers’ designated-hitter deluxe has 53 home runs and 55 stolen bases only four days after he became the first player in history to reach 50 of each.