From so near one end of the continent they could have – they didn't, but they could have – hit a baseball into the Pacific Ocean, at least into a creek that feeds a cove that empties into a bay that eventually gets to the ocean, the Los Angeles Dodgers kept paddling. Soothed themselves with thoughts — the St. Louis Cardinals lost, the Philadelphia Phillies were no longer in a position to harm them, the NL West wasn't lost just yet. How it even mattered what an 87-win Cardinals team was up to as September died, how an 89-win, and a few hours later, 90-win Rockies team was spending its third-to-last day of the regular season.