Dodgers will lose in NLDS for these three reasons
By Keith Rivas
Los Angeles has a snake in their boot
Dealing with division rivals isn’t always easy, especially with both teams are as competitive as Los Angeles and Arizona have been this season. While maintaining second place in the NL West, the Diamondbacks have become the perfect sleeper team to send LA home early.
As it stands of this writing (prior to Wednesday night’s results), the Diamondbacks are just under 12 games back of the Dodgers in the divisional standings. This after taking into consideration the fact that the Dodgers have lost ten of their last 11 while Arizona has won 12 straight.
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It looks in all likelihood that the Dodgers will get a date with the Diamondbacks in the NLDS, barring a collapse in the wild card game from Arizona. The Diamondbacks currently hold a 6.5 game lead over the second wild card team, Colorado.
Five of those ten losses in the Dodgers’ slump have come against Arizona, which is bad news for a potential playoff match up between the two teams. All it takes is for Los Angeles to slip a little more, and then their double digit lead in the division will go down or go away, and then all that’s left is what they can find in the tank.
Heading into the series ending game on Wednesday night, the Diamondbacks hold a 10-8 advantage in head-to-head match ups this season. That is another sign that the Dodgers would be in a big hole should they end up facing Arizona in the NLDS this post-season.
It’s hard to forget what it took for Los Angeles to escape Washington in last year’s NLDS, and then how the NLCS collapse versus the Cubs sent Chicago into history. They can’t let that happen again, but that’s not the way things look right now.