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By BILL PLASCHKE LA Times
For three years we’ve wondered, and now we know.
How did the Houston Astros’ hitters so easily pound three of the Dodgers’ hottest pitchers in two key games in Houston in the 2017 World Series?
How did they so easily wreck Yu Darvish for four runs in the second inning of a Game 3 Astros victory? How did they so effortlessly score 10 runs against Clayton Kershaw and Brandon Morrow in the Game 5 victory?
They cheated, that’s how.
They used technology at Minute Maid Park to steal the Dodgers’ signs. Their hitters knew what pitches were coming. They gleefully pounced on them. They accumulated 18 runs with 26 hits and six home runs in two series-changing victories that have now indelibly stamped an asterisk on an event forever marred by a sickening truth.
The Dodgers were cheated out of the 2017 World Series championship.
This is not sour grapes. This is not revisionist history. This is now and forever fact after a Major League Baseball investigation revealed Monday that the Astros used technology to cheat during their championship season.
MLB suspended both Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch for one year. They were quickly fired by Astros owner Jim Crane. MLB also fined the organization $5 million and stripped it of two seasons’ worth of first- and second-round draft picks, yet it still didn’t address the true damage.
The Dodgers were jobbed out of a championship that would have ended a 29-year drought, and what is MLB going to do about that?
The Dodgers won’t get to claim the title. That damage has already been done. That parade has already been lost. But the Astros should be forced to hand the Commissioner’s Trophy back to Commissioner Rob Manfred right now, vacate the title and forever leave that space in the record books as empty as the organization’s integrity.
The Dodgers didn’t win it on the field, but history should forever note that nobody beat them.
Whole article here: https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodg...7-world-series-title-dodgers-still-feel-empty
For three years we’ve wondered, and now we know.
How did the Houston Astros’ hitters so easily pound three of the Dodgers’ hottest pitchers in two key games in Houston in the 2017 World Series?
How did they so easily wreck Yu Darvish for four runs in the second inning of a Game 3 Astros victory? How did they so effortlessly score 10 runs against Clayton Kershaw and Brandon Morrow in the Game 5 victory?
They cheated, that’s how.
They used technology at Minute Maid Park to steal the Dodgers’ signs. Their hitters knew what pitches were coming. They gleefully pounced on them. They accumulated 18 runs with 26 hits and six home runs in two series-changing victories that have now indelibly stamped an asterisk on an event forever marred by a sickening truth.
The Dodgers were cheated out of the 2017 World Series championship.
This is not sour grapes. This is not revisionist history. This is now and forever fact after a Major League Baseball investigation revealed Monday that the Astros used technology to cheat during their championship season.
MLB suspended both Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch for one year. They were quickly fired by Astros owner Jim Crane. MLB also fined the organization $5 million and stripped it of two seasons’ worth of first- and second-round draft picks, yet it still didn’t address the true damage.
The Dodgers were jobbed out of a championship that would have ended a 29-year drought, and what is MLB going to do about that?
The Dodgers won’t get to claim the title. That damage has already been done. That parade has already been lost. But the Astros should be forced to hand the Commissioner’s Trophy back to Commissioner Rob Manfred right now, vacate the title and forever leave that space in the record books as empty as the organization’s integrity.
The Dodgers didn’t win it on the field, but history should forever note that nobody beat them.
Whole article here: https://www.latimes.com/sports/dodg...7-world-series-title-dodgers-still-feel-empty