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Thanks to the Braves’ loss to the Reds on Thursday night, the Dodgers were assured of finishing the season with a top-two record in the National League, clinching a first-round bye that ensures they will not be subjected to a best-of-three wild-card series next week.
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they → assure → series
Instead, the Dodgers will begin their postseason quest in the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 3, holding home-field advantage for that best-of-five series as they go for the first three-peat by an NL team in MLB history.
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they → begin → history
After MLB expanded its postseason field five years ago — creating a five-day layoff for the top-two seeds in each league between the end of the regular season and the start of their playoff schedules — the Dodgers were knocked out in the NLDS as a bye team in 2022 and 2023.
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Dodgers → expand → 2022
Both years, questions about the negative side effects of the weeklong break loomed large in the wake of their elimination.
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questions → loom → elimination
Thus, after receiving a bye again in 2024, the team altered its off-week schedule, incorporating more simulated game activities and making a concerted effort to spend more time at the ballpark together on workout days.
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team → receive → days
It paid off in that year’s division series, when the Dodgers overcame a two-games-to-one deficit to the Padres en route to the first of their back-to-back titles.
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Dodgers → pay → titles
Last year, the team failed to earn a top-two seed, but swept the Reds in two games in the wild-card series to begin their World Series defense.
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team → fail → defense
This season, securing a bye became a critical objective for the club down the stretch.
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securing → secure → stretch
The last thing their aging roster needed was two extra playoff games.
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roster → age → ?
Ongoing injuries to Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman also amplified the importance of getting extra time off ahead of another October gauntlet.
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injuries → amplify → gauntlet
“It’s always helpful in the sense of giving your guys a break to reset,” manager Dave Roberts said earlier this month.
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Roberts → ’ → break
“But given all the tax and where our guys are health-wise, to get that week would be huge.”
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get → give → week
The Dodgers, who entered Thursday with a 97-61 record, still have an outside shot at the NL’s No. 1 seed, as well, but would need to run the table over the season’s final weekend and have the Milwaukee Brewers –– who currently hold MLB’s best record at 100-59 –– get swept in their final series against the already-eliminated St. Louis Cardinals.
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who → enter → Cardinals
“I think it’s more about just playing good baseball,” Roberts said this week when asked how much of a priority the top seed would be.
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seed → think → priority
“The last couple weeks, we’ve just played good baseball and the fallout is this or that.
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fallout → play → baseball
We want to get the bye, and then if it happens that we keep playing well and we gain a couple games on the Brewers, great.”
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we → want → Brewers
Indeed, the club’s primary postseason seeding objectives have already been met.
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objectives → meet → ?
They’ve won their 13th NL West division title in the last 14 years.
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They → win → years
They’ve given themselves the shortest possible route through the playoffs.
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They → give → playoffs
And now, they’ll have ample time next week to prepare for an unprecedented three-peat bid.
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they → have → bid
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