They did it.
My God, they did it.
After 32 long years spent fumbling through the baseball wilderness, with bodies battered and egos bruised, and feeling desperate to find the trail that would lead them back to this moment, the Los Angeles Dodgers are world champions once again.
That famous 1988 team of underdogs — which for decades seemed like the gatekeepers to an unreachable promised land — has now been matched by the 2020 Dodgers, who overcame a collapsed season, a pandemic and what seemed like unshakable trauma inflicted by repeated postseason failure to finally — FINALLY — ascend to the top of the baseball universe.
Through the first five innings of Tuesday’s 3-1 victory over Tampa Bay, it looked like the Dodgers would have to wait for a Game 7 to win it all. Rays starter Blake Snell dominated the Dodgers’ high-powered offense with ease, allowing just one baserunner on a single and striking out…
