Things can and do go wrong, and while few teams see things fall apart as quickly as the 1988 Orioles, it's tempting if not easy to overreact when your season consists of no more than 30 games. Consider the Dodgers, muddling along at 12–16 after Monday's loss and already trailing in the NL West by eight games. Los Angeles, last seen winning its first pennant in 30 years before falling in a wild World Series to Houston, is more than capable of erasing that kind of deficit in a week.