Los Angeles Dodgers: Ranking all seven division winners
By Jamaal Artis
3. 2013: 92-70 .568 win percentage +11 NLW Standings
The Los Angeles Dodgers had a season for the ages and finally got back to winning in the playoffs. It was also a season that brought the arrivals of one of the most popular players to play at Dodger Stadium.
Yasiel Puig made his Dodgers debut on June 3rd when the team was 24-32 and 7.5 games out of first place. The Dodgers would go 66-38 over the rest of the season when Puig played. Puig would finish second in the NL Rookie of the Year voting, hitting 19 home runs and driving in 42 runs.
This Dodgers team took off with Puig and when Zack Greinke came back from the IL, who went 13-3 after June with 131 strikeouts. The Dodgers went 42-8 over a fifty game span, the third-best span in Major League Baseball history.
The Dodgers would clinch the division on September 19th, the earliest in team history and famously celebrated by jumping into the Diamondbacks stadium pool.
The Dodgers would go on and win their first playoff series since 2009 and if not for one misplaced fastball probably make the World Series.