Not about revenge: Dodgers earn series win, but no October redemption, in blowout of Dbacks
Published in Basketball
PHOENIX — The narrative should have been obvious.
A season ago, the Dodgers were swept by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the National League Division Series, marking a stunningly short postseason run for their 100-win team.
This week, the sides met Chase Field for the first time since.
For most clubs in the Dodgers’ position, bad blood would accompany the return trip to the scene of the crime.
Leading up to this series, however, the Dodgers didn’t just downplay the significance of their rematch with the Dbacks, who rode the momentum of their Dodgers upset all the way to the World Series.
Instead, even after taking the three-game series with an 8-0 blowout win Wednesday night, the Dodgers outright rejected the notion of this being any sort of #RevengeSeries.
They weren’t looking for payback. They weren’t trying to get even.
Sure, a win over a division rival felt nice.
But beating these Diamondbacks did little to fix what went wrong last year.
“I don’t look at it as, every team that beat us, we gotta get revenge on them,” manager Dave Roberts explained.
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