The Los Angeles Dodgers are coming off one other electrical season at Chavez Ravine. The 2023 membership set a brand new MLB excessive mark with its fourth 100-plus win season within the final 4 non-shortened seasons. Sure, that could be a mouthful, nevertheless it all is sensible for those who strive not to consider it too arduous.
Except for one other large 100-plus win marketing campaign, this 12 months’s squad was additionally the primary to ever function 4 gamers to drive in 100 or extra runs in a season. Now Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, J.D. Martinez, and Max Muncy will ceaselessly be immortalized because the Dodgers’ social media workforce staged the quartet for a photograph to rejoice whereas paying homage to a different legendary quartet in LA historical past.
Steve Garvey, Reggie Smith, Dusty Baker, and Ron Cey — higher generally known as the primary 30 dwelling run quartet in Dodgers historical past — took the enduring picture under shortly after Baker grew to become the final of the group to hit his thirtieth homer of 1977 within the final sport of the common season.
The Dodgers have at all times finished nicely to acknowledge their wealthy historical past in intelligent methods. With this newest version, the workforce actually hit one out of the park.
Historic pictures apart, the 2023 workforce appears to be like so as to add its identify to the historical past ebook this fall by bringing dwelling the eighth World Sequence championship in franchise historical past. The postseason begins in earnest on Saturday with the Dodgers welcoming the Arizona Diamondbacks to LA for the best-of-5 Nationwide League Division Sequence.
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