MIAMI — On the field hours before a game during the final weekend of the regular season, a member of the New York Mets eyed the visitors’ dugout, struggling to make sense of what he was thinking. “There was magic last year; you walked in the building on a day like today and you were expecting to win the game,” …
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Three years later, the quote still resonates. When it comes to the Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, late Padres owner Peter Seidler framed the dynamic best. “The Dodgers are the dragon up the freeway we’re trying to slay,” Seidler said back in August 2022, during an in-game interview with ESPN as the two teams played a Sunday Night Baseball …
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On the day after the MLB trade deadline, Milwaukee Brewers manager Pat Murphy uncapped a pen and scribbled notes for himself. Quiet, he wrote. Less is more. “We’ve been doing the deadline all year,” he said, and so opted against blustering into his clubhouse to cajole or commiserate with the team about the lack of major acquisitions. There was no …
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