Commentary: Dodgers fans, MLB’s best, deserved a win and another home game this year
Desperate for offense and top-notch pitching, the Dodgers win big on their lineup gambles to defeat the San Francisco Giants 7-2 in NLDS Game 4.
With one more four-game weekend series, they would have gotten there. The attendance total: 2,804,693. The last non-strike year the Dodgers failed to hit 2.8 million was 1987, when they lost 89 games and general manager Al Campanis lost his job after saying on national television that Blacks “may not have some of the necessities” to run a team.
Of the 30 teams, 16 did not top 20,000. Three — the Oakland Athletics, Miami Marlins and Tampa Bay Rays — did not top 10,000. There were the sounds of air horns on the stadium sound system. There were the sights of 50,000 blue towels waved as one. There was a beach ball bouncing around the stands — not the outfield pavilions, where the balls usually fly, but in the super-fancy seats behind home plate.
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