Los Angeles Dodgers: Everything we know about the team’s identity
By Jason Reed
Monday is the Los Angeles Dodgers’ first off-day in 17 days and in honor of there being no baseball, we decided to reflect on the team through 24 games.
If you blink it will be over in a flash and that is how the 2019 MLB season has felt thus far. While there still is a lot of baseball left to play, the Los Angeles Dodgers are already through 15 percent of their games for the 2019 season.
Only the Seattle Mariners have played more games (25) than the Dodgers have this season (24) and that is because the team got an early head start in the Japan Series. Aside from them, and the Oakland Athletics, every other team has fewer games played than LA.
A big reason for that is the team’s busy schedule and the lack of any true off-days. The Los Angeles Dodgers have had one off-day thus far this season and that off-day was spent flying in a plane to Colorado.
The team has gone to Colorado, hopped on a red-eye to St. Louis to play four games there, flew back to LA for a six-game homestand and then back to the midwest to once again play the Brewers.
With the Dodgers starting a series with the Cubs on Tuesday, the team was able to make the short travel to Chicago to have a true off-day tomorrow. No flights, no car-rides, nothing.
It felt right to reflect on the team’s performance through 24 games, in which they have a 15-9 record. Here is everything we know about the Dodgers’ identity in 2019.