Thankful for all these great plays

Who knew the Dodgers could so deftly field a bunt play?

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And who knew that this teamwork would strike the first big postseason blow against their most talented postseason opponent?Division Series, Philadelphia Phillies, Game 2, ninth inning, the Dodgers lead 4-3 but there is a runner on second with none out.

A normally fielded bunt by Bryson Stott would have moved Nick Castellanos to third and put him in perfect position to tie the game. But the Dodgers ran the little-used "Wheel Play" in which third baseman Max Muncy fielded the bunt and spun and threw to Mookie Betts to tag Castellanos and save the game.

Betts suggested the play. Manager Dave Roberts signed off on the play. The Dodgers teamwork made the play work.

"We do a pretty good job of putting each other in good spots to be successful," Betts said afterward.

The rest of the baseball world soon learn just how successful.

Orion's Fallen Star

A year earlier, the Dodgers clinched the World Series on a night of New York Yankees meltdowns.

This autumn, the Dodgers clinched the division series on a night of a singular, stunning meltdown.

Dodger fans will forever see Phillies' reliever Orion Kerkering botching Andy Pages' grounder, panicking, then throwing wildly home to allow Hyeseong Kim to score the winning run in the 11th inning of Game 4, sending the Dodgers to the championship series.

It was the play that launched the three-sentence scream heard around town at various times for the rest of the nutty post season ...

"That's it? We won? We won!"

'Feeling Good'

The Dodgers cued up Shohei Ohtani's walk-up song by Michael Bublé one afternoon in honor of his rarest of performances.

During the day off in the NLCS against the Milwaukee Brewers, Ohtani stunningly left the indoor cage and took on-field batting practice for one of the first times this season.