The Dodgers return to Globe Life Field in Arlington, Texas, for the first time since winning the World Series in the pandemic-shortened season.
, becoming just the 14th team to overturn a three-games-to-one series deficit.
The highlights of their stay came after the Dodgers advanced through the earlier rounds. Upon returning to the hotel, they’d throw socially distanced dinner parties under the outdoor canopy tent. At the start of the eighth inning, the team learned that Turner had tested positive and had to be removed from the game. As Julio Urías recorded the final outs, preparations for postgame restrictions already were in motion.
“They only had two people [running the] testing,” Muncy said. “By the time that finished, it was 1:30, 2:30 in the morning.”Prior and his family returned to their room, quietly packing up before the team’s flight home the next day. “I literally just kind of sat there in this weird, weird state,” he said.
But reflecting upon that night this week — and all the other typical title festivities they missed, a downtown parade chief among them — those still with the team couldn’t help but feel a sense of regret.“We didn’t get to fully appreciate being world champions,” he said, noting he still hasn’t seen some members of the team since that day. “There’s a lot of guys that we didn’t get to all say our goodbyes to.
The Dodgers didn’t face the worst-case scenario, either. Had they lost Game 6, the status of Game 7 would’ve been exceedingly unclear. While contingency plans never reached an official stage, the team’s internal belief was that in the wake of Turner’s positive test, the winner-take-all finale likely would have been postponed several days at least.A drought is over, the heavens have opened, and all over Los Angeles it’s raining blue.
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