Bill Plaschke: Dodgers left us with nothing but memories, some bitter, some sweet
LOS ANGELES_Are you over it yet?
Sigh. Same here. Too soon.
The way the Dodgers' 2017 season ended was numbing in its finality. Shortly before 9 p.m. Wednesday, seven months of a city's hopes instantly disappeared, as if summer itself was hurriedly swept out of Dodger Stadium into the cooling November air.
Just like that. Finished in nine measly innings. Gone was a championship close enough to touch. Gone was a parade route that already had been arranged. Gone was a team that was going to be remembered forever, but, instead, will be mourned all winter.
One moment Corey Seager is hitting a ground ball toward shallow right field and lumbering to first, and the next moment, the green grass is overrun with orange and the stands are bleeding blue and it's like none
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