The old pitching adage is you’re only as good as your next outing, and that’s the mindset the entire Dodgers baseball team needs to have right now.

After being swept in Pittsburgh, the Dodgers need to head into Baltimore leaving that disaster of a series behind.

Ironically, in Baltimore, they will face the team that has allowed them to stay where they were in the standings despite that sweep. The Orioles did them a big ol’ favor and swept the Padres in San Diego.

With the Orioles sitting at 64-76, the Dodgers are facing another team in which it should be easier for them to beat. But as shown in many previous series against such teams, they don’t always seem to do that. They mostly seem to get up to play tougher teams, so yay for not playing bad teams in the playoffs?

As an aside, I did

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