The Los Angeles Dodgers showed on Tuesday just how big the gulf in quality between their and the Cincinnati Reds' squad truly is when they took a 10-5 win to come to within one win away from punching their ticket to the NLDS to face the Philadelphia Phillies. After all, this Dodgers team won the NL West crown after going 93-69 in the regular season, while the Reds simply took advantage of a horrific collapse from the New York Mets to sneak into the NL Wild Card series with an 83-win season.
Things were going so swimmingly for the Dodgers that not even their bullpen that's been so horrendous in the month of September could stop them from winning Game 1. They were leading 8-0 at one point before they allowed the Reds to drive in five runs in the seventh and eighth innings to cut into th