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Dodgers News: Losing To The Padres In The NLDS Will Haunt Turner, LA For A Long Time

Fans and players alike will not easily forget the torment felt after the NLDS

Ryan Menzie

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With the best record and run differential in baseball, the Dodgers were smooth sailing and on their way to what looked to be a historic championship run. With the success displayed all season long, the Dodgers got extra time off during the Wild Card and were poised to be refreshed and ready for the NLDS.

Just over a month later, as we prepared to reopen old wounds, the Dodgers of course did not have a deep postseason run and instead had their championships aspirations cut short in just the first series of the postseason. To make it worse, the Dodgers lost to their NL West rivals who were without Fernando Tatis Jr. 

The Padres played a great series, but everything the Dodgers did well all season long took a backseat as they struggled to get points on the board and the injuries along the pitching unit soon caught up to them when they needed it the most. 

It's something Dodgers fans hope to never relive again and is something that will be talked about for years to come. The feeling still stings, especially for a guy like Justin Turner who was in the middle of it all (quotes via AM570 LA Sports).

“This is one we’re going to think about for a long time. Obviously, you have the season that we had with 111 wins and the team that we had, you don’t anticipate that first-round exit. But it’s easy to sit and say, ‘That’s baseball. That’s the way it goes. The game is not played on paper.’ But that doesn’t make it feel any better.”

Baseball remains so unpredictable and displays some of the most exciting coaching scenarios throughout all major sports. The Dodgers were the hottest team in baseball coming into the postseason and were unable to deliver.

The motivation will be at an all time high for the Dodgers as they look to bounce back to their championship aspired team. 

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RYAN MENZIE

Ryan Menzie | Lead Contributor Ryan is an LA Native who has grown up praising the greatest athletes LA has had to offer. A love for sports ranging between basketball, football, volleyball and golf, a future Sports Management Masters graduate, and being engulfed into organized sports since seven years old, the passion and love for sports never ends for Ryan. If the words he writes don't paint the full picture of his true fandom, he will find more ways than one to tell the story and be more than willing to open up a nice LA sports debate with you. Favorite Player: Mookie Betts Favorite Moment: 2020 World Series. The Lakers won the NBA title and the Dodgers secured the World Series only a couple of months later. During such a rough time with COVID-19 and such a bleak look at how sports has tried to overcome the circumstances, it was a relief to see the night sky lit up for many nights and a makeshift parade in LA when it seemed like we needed it the most.

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