Bill Plaschke: Splat! Humiliated Dodgers swept into next season.
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Sweep. Weep. Wow.
The rich and talented and tormenting Dodgers have done it again, taking barely a step into the postseason before falling flat on their faces, shaking the foundations of franchise history with the resulting splat.
Last October, it was a first-round humiliation by the San Diego Padres.
This October, it is even worse.
The Arizona Diamondbacks. The Arizona Diamondbacks? The Arizona Diamondbacks!
This is a team that won 16 fewer games than the Dodgers. This is a team that scored 160 fewer runs than the Dodgers. This is a team that just swept the pants off the Dodgers, the Diamondbacks' 4-2 victory Wednesday night at Chase Field in Phoenix finishing a three-games-to-none clinching of their National League Division Series and completing the most brutal of broom bashings.
For the second consecutive year, and third time in five years,
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