Alexander: Dodgers’ late rally doesn’t produce a win, but it provides hope

You know it’s bad when Fox’s Joe Buck and John Smoltz are discussing “The Masked Singer” or Freddie Freeman’s tattered T-shirt or 3-pound hot dogs by the middle innings.
This was bad, for the Dodgers and their fans. Discouragingly so. Depressingly so. Edge-of-the-cliff so. They were trailing 7-0 in the game, about to go down 2-0 in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series, and channels were being changed in homes throughout Southern California.
But when