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    Bill Plaschke: Read it and leap, the Dodgers will win the 2023 World Series championship

    LOS ANGELES — They are fighting their tattered rotation, their untested bullpen, their shallow lineup. Clayton Kershaw is too old. Bobby Miller is too young. Evan Phillips is too green. Mookie Betts is too soft. Will Smith is too tired. James Outman is too young. They are fighting their lousy October history, the flameouts, the implosions, the fact that they haven't won a full-season title in ...
    by Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times Oct 05, 2023 5 minutes
    Los Angeles Dodgers outfielders, from left, David Peralta, James Outman and Jason Heyward celebrate a 9-3 win against the Cleveland Guardians at Progressive Field on August 24, 2023 in Cleveland.

    LOS ANGELES — They are fighting their tattered rotation, their untested bullpen, their shallow lineup.

    Clayton Kershaw is too old. Bobby Miller is too young. Evan Phillips is too green. Mookie Betts is too soft. Will Smith is too tired. James Outman is too young.

    They are fighting their lousy October history, the flameouts, the implosions, the fact that they haven't won a full-season title in 35 years.

    The San Diego Padres punked them, the Atlanta Braves rolled them, the Washington Nationals stunned them, the baseball world laughed at them.

    Entering the 2023 postseason, the Dodgers are fighting against the same sorts of perceptions that have saddled them since they began the 1988 postseason as heavy underdogs.

    Remember how that ended? Vin Scully once said it, and these Dodgers are about to relive it.

    In a year that has been

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