Alexander: These Dodgers have quick-strike capability

LOS ANGELES — Remember the “Big Blue Wrecking Crew?”
It was 1974, the Dodgers were starting to stand up to Cincinnati’s vaunted Big Red Machine, and the folks at their new flagship radio station decided that the home nine needed a catchy nickname of their own, so voila! Hard hats.
Those Dodgers won 102 games and reached the World Series. And they hit 139 home runs, led by 32 from newcomer Jim Wynn, aka the Toy Cannon.
No, they don’t produce nicknames like they used