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162-0?

Why not?

Shohei Ohtani is rounding the bases along with his proper fist in the air and Dodger Stadium is shaking with its roar filling the sky and something is feasible.

162-0?

It may by no means occur. But after Wednesday evening, are you keen to say it can’t occur?

The Dodgers had been seemingly destroying their season-opening, seven-game win streak with their worst sport in a number of seasons, stumbling to a 5-0 deficit towards the Atlanta Braves and apparently able to pack it in till …

Until Tommy Edman homered in the second inning.

Until Michael Conforto homered in the fourth.

Until Max Muncy clawed back from two errors to blast a game-tying two-run double in the eighth.

Until Ohtani celebrated his bobblehead evening with a walk-off home run in the ninth.

Anything is feasible? Everything is feasible.

In much less than three hours, the Dodgers went from nightmare to historical past, from tainted to unblemished, from questionable to simple, all half of a thrill experience that symbolized the unbelievable begin by baseball’s best workforce

162-Oh my Lord.

The Dodgers dramatically confirmed that the heady starting of their 2025 season is about more than muscle, there’s additionally magic. It’s the solely rationalization for what occurred in a 6-5 victory over the Braves that pushed their file to 8-0, the best unbeaten begin by a defending champion in baseball historical past.

They will finally lose … proper? These breaks will certainly flip towards them someday … yes?

Maybe. Who is aware of? For now, they appear flat-out unbeatable.

“I think each night we’re unbeatable, and we’ll see how that works out,” stated supervisor Dave Roberts afterward with an amazed smile.

Dodgers third base Max Muncy hits a two-run double in the eighth inning to tie the Atlanta Braves 5-5 Wednesday evening at Dodger Stadium.

(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Working out fairly good thus far. It’s not simply that the Dodgers are successful video games. As Wednesday confirmed, it’s how they’re successful video games, this time triumphing regardless of three errors and two base-running blunders and one misplayed fly balls.

“Tonight I was a little dumbfounded,” stated Roberts. “I was dumbfounded with the way we were playing. I didn’t recognize that club in the first couple innings. And then just dumbfounded we found a way to win that game. We had no business winning that game. But to our guys’ credit, we just kept fighting.”

Presumptive ace Blake Snell is shaky for a second consecutive begin, permitting 5 unearned runs fueled by 4 walks, and what occurs? He is rescued by a scoreless 5 innings pieced collectively by relievers named Ben Casparius, Kirby Yates and Jack Dreyer.

Will any person please clarify simply who’s Jack Dreyer?

“Tonight, obviously, was the worst game we’ve played,” stated Roberts. “But the ‘pen has been fantastic.”

Then there was Muncy, after two throwing errors and three lousy plate appearances in a season full of them, ditching his new torpedo bat for his old faithful and tying the game with one of his trademark big swings in the eighth.

“It’s been enjoyable … it seems like this clubhouse is carrying a little bit of the angle we had final 12 months that we’re by no means out of a sport and we’re resilient, and we’ve been carrying it into this season,” Muncy stated, later including, “The guys don’t give up. Bad things have happened, and no one’s really been down or out on themselves. Everyone’s just all right, here we go, next inning, let’s get after it.”

Don’t neglect Michael Conforto, operating into an out and killing a rally, however nonetheless having the composure to set up Muncy’s huge hit with a leadoff single in the eighth.

“Every game, every at-bat matters, every play … the focus doesn’t waiver, the compete,” stated Roberts.

Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernández congratulates teammate Michael Conforto after he hit a fourth inning home run towards the Braves Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.

(Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times)

Finally, of course, there’s Ohtani, and there’s just one solution to describe a man who rewarded these followers who lined up 5 hours earlier than the sport for his bobblehead doll with a actual dwell neck- turner.

“Shohei being Shohei at the end,” Roberts stated for the umpteenth time.

So when are they going to lose? You inform me, when are they going to lose?

An apparent spot can be in two video games, on Saturday in Philadelphia, when Phillies’ veteran Aaron Nola stares down struggling child Roki Sasaki. But Nola was hammered by the Washington Nationals in his first sport this 12 months and the Dodgers offense has already saved Sasaki as soon as.

After the Phillies’ weekend collection the Dodgers play three video games towards the wretched Nationals and three towards the Chicago Cubs, who they’ve already crushed twice in two makes an attempt.

After the Cubs collection, they play 20 video games towards the sorry likes of Colorado, Texas, the Cubs again, Pittsburgh, Miami, Atlanta and Miami again.

That brings them to a four-game collection in Arizona in early May. OK, with the intense historical past between the two, the Dodgers may lose there.

At that time, they might be 36-0, and would that basically shock you?

This is all hyperbole, of course. Two days from now they may already be 8-1 and no person would blink.

But the level is, they’re good enough to warrant such fantasies. Think about it. They’ve crushed two Cy Young award winners. They’ve gained amid the distraction of two opening days. They’ve gained with ailing Mookie Betts and injured Freddie Freeman having performed collectively in simply two of the eight video games. They’ve gained with shutout beginning pitching. They’ve gained with nameless relievers.

And now they’ve pulled off a big-time comeback win on a evening they largely appeared like Little Leaguers.

“We knew going in we were talented. … I actually like it in the sense that no one’s too high right now,” stated Roberts “The pitching has been very good, the defense has been solid but up and down our lineup there’s only a couple guys who are really swinging the bats the way we’re capable, … outside of that …guys are really thinking about how they could get better right now … which is a pretty scary thought for the rest of the league.”

Scary enough that earlier than the sport, I really requested Roberts in the event that they really feel unbeatable.

“I guess if you say that if every single night we take the field do I feel like we’re going to win?” he stated. “Yeah.”

He added, “I know that the math says that we’re not going to go 162-0, but each night we take the field I feel like we’re going to win, so, whatever that means.”

Right now, it means he’s been proper eight occasions in eight video games, a good file, a good begin, solely the starting.