The Los Angeles Dodgers have punched their ticket to Main League Baseball’s expanded postseason.

It took a 7-5 victory in opposition to the San Diego Padres and assist from the Oakland Athletics and St. Louis Cardinals to do it Wednesday, however the Dodgers are formally the primary group to hitch the 16-team playoff subject.

The Dodgers will now look to win their eighth straight division championship. Wednesday’s win offers them a 3.5-game lead with 10 video games left to play. Their magic quantity to clinch the NL West is seven.

Regardless of their latest common season success, L.A. has been unable to realize the final word aim of profitable the World Collection. Their final championship parade came about in 1988. This membership is well-equipped to take the leap in 2020 due to a loaded beginning rotation and the addition of former American League MVP Mookie Betts in an offseason commerce with the Boston Pink Sox.

After all, this postseason will current a brand new problem due to the added wild card spherical. The Dodgers should win a best-of-three collection simply to achieve the NLDS.

The 4 remaining NL groups after the wild card spherical will journey to Texas the place the NLDS, NLCS and World Collection will all be performed in MLB’s postseason bubble.

LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 13: Enrique Hernandez #14 of the Los Angeles Dodgers congratulates Mookie Betts #50 on a house run in opposition to the Houston Astros within the fifth inning at Dodger Stadium on September 13, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photograph by John McCoy/Getty Photos)Extra

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