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With each round of baseball's postseason, the stakes get higher, the competition gets better and advancing gets a little tougher.
At least that's the theory. The Los Angeles Dodgers haven't held up their end the last two seasons in the National League Championship Series. A team that was supposedly stung by its quiet, five-game dismissal in 2008 was going to come back with a mission this time.
Perhaps the mission was different, but the outcome looked about the same. The Phillies clinched the pennant last night with a routine 10-4 win. They jumped around, sprayed champagne and beer, and toasted a return to the final round of baseball's annual tournament.
That's the good news, and certainly better news than the Dodgers took home with them. Los Angeles, which had...
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