In 2017, the Los Angeles Dodgers lost the World Series to the Houston Astros. At the time, there was talk of a great accomplishment for the Astros, who rebuilt the club through the draft. There was talk of a disappointment in Los Angeles, which had not won for a long time. We were talking about the impact of the acquisitions of Yu Darvish and Manny Machado, which did not always have the desired effect for LA.
But today, with hindsight, we know that the Astros cheated. It puts a shadow on the club’s performance and it created rage among the guys who were with the Dodgers at the time.
Among them? Alex Anthopoulos. He was vice president of baseball operations in 2017 and saw the Astros deprive him of a World Series ring. He definitely wants revenge as president of the Braves’ baseball operations.
On the player side, Joc Pederson is one of those who was in LA in 2017 and is in Atlanta this year. The feeling of revenge must therefore be strong enough in someone who is still hungry for a second ring in a row.
But the man with the pearl necklace is not the only one who wants revenge.
Whoever left California not too long ago received several messages from his Dodgers friends before the series began. The nature of the messages? “I love you and will beat the Astros. “
It’s clear the guys still have it in their hearts at the Dodgers. The proof? They told him that, even though Pederson had just beaten his teammates in the National Championship Series.
But the difference, of course, is that Atlanta won within the legal limits. We can therefore understand his friends to take for him … and to wish bad luck to the Astros.
