ARLINGTON, TEXAS — It took a haymaker to their ego from the Atlanta Braves for the Dodgers to find themselves as “the most talented team in baseball" and regain all the bravado that comes with that assertion, LA pitcher Alex Wood said.
Wood, a part of the Dodgers’ past three World Series teams who spent LA’s pennant-less 2019 with Cincinnati, called the Braves the second-best team he’s seen in the playoffs, reserving judgment on AL champ Tampa Bay until seeing more than two games, he said.
The Dodgers lost the first two games of the NLCS to the Braves and had to win three consecutive elimination games in the best-of-seven series to claim the pennant.