Kansas City Royals first baseman Vinnie Pasquantino sees a familiar blueprint behind the Los Angeles Dodgers’ October surge — one he knows well from across town. Asked why looks so formidable right now, Pasquantino reached outside baseball for the analogy: the Dodgers are operating like the Kansas City Chiefs.

“You talk about the Chiefs practicing in the regular season … it’s similar,” Pasquantino said on FS1, noting how L.A. has shifted gears in October. “They’re playing a different game” with their starting pitching than they did across 162. Expand Tweet

That “different game” has been on full display this series. One night after Blake Snell faced the minimum through eight, Yoshinobu Yamamoto answered with a 111-pitch complete game, settling in after a first-inning homer and mow

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