Losing is never easy to handle in any dosage. But when the goal you’ve worked hard to achieve your entire life is seemingly within your grasp two years in a row, it can be soul-crushing. The Dodgers know the feeling all too well.
“Disappointed. Yeah, just disappointed, I think,” Clayton Kershaw said minutes after the Dodgers were sent home for the winter without a World Series championship. “There’s only one team that can win and we know that but it just hurts worse when you make it all the way and get second place.