It was another great season for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2018 as they won the National League West and reached the World Series.
The Los Angeles Dodgers continue to dominate the National League West winning the division for the sixth straight season.
Things weren’t quite as easy in 2018 though as they continued to get push from the Colorado Rockies and Arizona Diamondbacks. The Rockies actually forced the Dodgers to play a tie-breaker gamer for the division, which the Dodgers obviously won.
On top of that, the Dodgers got out to a very slow start with Justin Turner on the disabled list.
They were just 16-26 on May 16 and were dead last in the NL West, 8.5 games back of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
Turner made is 2018 debut on May 15, which ultimately sparked the team back into contention.
After that May 16 loss to the Miami Marlins, the Dodgers ended up going 76-45 the rest of the way.
It wasn’t until July 12 that the Dodgers took over first place in the division.
The Dodgers crushed their rivals at the end of the regular season, sweeping the San Francisco Giants, in order to keep pace with the Rockies for first place.
In game 163 the Dodgers sent rookie Walker Buehler to the mound and he gave up one hit and three walks over 6.2 innings of shutout baseball as LA went on to win 5-2.
The Dodgers took care of a young Atlanta Braves team in the division round winning the series 3-1.
That was not the case in the NLCS as they went toe-to-toe with the Milwaukee Brewers before winning game seven.
And though it won’t show with the 4-1 result, they were pretty competitive with the Boston Red Sox in the World Series.
Even though for most fans reaching the World Series would be a great accomplishment, I think most Dodgers fans will not be satisfied until they win the title.