Can’t we skip the next two months? Can’t the postseason start, like, now?
Because if you watched Yu Darvish dominate the New York Mets on Friday night in his first start for the Dodgers, how could you not think ahead to October?
It wasn’t only the sight of Darvish doing pretty much whatever he wanted as he limited the Mets to three hits over seven scoreless innings. It was the idea of how his arsenal would play in a five- or seven-game series.
Imagine a recovered Clayton Kershaw in Game 1, his fastball, slider and curveball from the left side, followed by Darvish in Game 2, with an even more powerful fastball and a wider variety of breaking pitches from the right.