Whicker: Dodgers, Cody Bellinger show their leathery side in Game 1 win

LOS ANGELES — Since Sept. 22, nothing they did meant anything. Aimless games. Playoff auditions. Meetings and videos and ticket requests and logistics and a lava flow of stats.
Baseball teams rarely have time to look around. Now the Dodgers had to kill more of it than they ever imagined.
The Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks were the final teams to throw a postseason pitch. The American League teams had finished two games before their Game 1.
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