LOS ANGELES — These Dodgers are ginormous-market. The $220 million payroll, tops in baseball, makes that clear.
There is a small-market philosophy, though, hidden inside the biggest of markets.
For that they will be rewarded by playing in the World Series on Tuesday for the first time in 29 years. Money doesn’t always talk in the majors. There is so much that has to go right, you have to have production from all departments.
The Yankees are living proof and a win Saturday night in Houston against the Astros in Game 7 of the NLCS will send them to LA.