The Dodgers spent the last several years building what was supposed to be a roster so loaded it couldn't possibly lose in the postseason. But on Thursday night, a campaign that began as a chase for baseball's first three-peat in a quarter-century ended as one of its most spectacular failures.
As the Brewers poured onto the field to celebrate their triumph in the National League championship series, Los Angeles’s star-studded squad stood in the dugout and watched in stunned silence. A year after sweeping Milwaukee out in the same round, the broom swung the other way. This Dodgers team was emphatically consigned to the dustbin of history.