Dodgers Take Home the Win!

First Championship Since 1988

Ethan King, Reporter|November 18, 2020

The MLB season was set to begin on March 26, but like almost everything else it was put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

In early July, the league made plans to begin a “restart” with regular season games starting on July 23. 

Baseball was back, but with some significant changes. The schedule changed with teams playing only 60 games instead of the usual 162. Fans were replaced by cardboard cutouts and some new rules were introduced. 

“I think they made the best of the situation, but there should have been fans,” sophomore Raymond Moll said.

Throughout the early part of the season, the league battled with COVID-19 outbreaks. The Miami Marlins had 20 people within their organization test positive and the St. Louis Cardinals had 17 people test positive. 

These outbreaks seriously put the season in jeopardy. The commissioner remained steadfast though and the league continued to play. The MLB was able to reschedule the games primarily using double headers and increased testing was implemented to try to prevent mass outbreaks.

“I think the MLB handled the season decently well, but the fans in the World Series should’ve been spread out more from what I saw,” senior Riley Skinner said.

 The Los Angeles Dodgers finished first in the National League, while the Tampa Bay Rays finished first in the American League. Both teams advanced to the World Series making it only the second time two number one 

seeds faced each other. 

The Dodgers led 

3-2 going into Game 6. The Rays had won a wild Game 4 in walkoff fashion that had kept their championship hopes alive. In Game 6, the Rays starter Blake Snell was pitching a shutout through the first six innings and with the Rays winning. Surprising everyone, the Ray’s manager decided to pull Snell from the game because he didn’t want Snell to face the Dodgers lineup a third time. The

Dodgers immediately 

scored and went on to win the game. 

This choice ultimately handed the World Series to the Dodgers,

“I am really excited that the Dodgers won the World Series. They have been good for a couple years, but haven’t been able to pull through,” senior Eric Sheng said.

After years of disappointment the Dodgers finally surmounted the World Series. This was the first since 1988 and Dodgers fans could not be more excited.