All-Star first baseman Freddie Freeman was out of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ starting lineup for Game 4 of the National League Championship Series against the New York Mets. Freeman has been playing with a badly sprained and swollen right ankle throughout the postseason.

Tommy Edman and Will Smith homered to send Shohei Ohtani into the World Series for the first time, and the Los Angeles Dodgers eliminated the New York Mets with a 10-5 victory in Game 6 of the NL Cham

Of all the years the Los Angeles Dodgers could have won the National League pennant and didn’t, how could this be the one when they did? Their rotation splintered, injury by injury, until no aces remained for October.