pennant

“The bar is high right now, because we’re in a pennant race,” Roberts said.

Now we know what can tilt a pennant race between two teams whose performance has been roughly even with a month to go before the playoffs.

The pennant stretch comes first, and Roberts has faith in Hernández.

That also created an opening at third for Ron Cey; the two anchored an infield that spent the next nine seasons together, winning four National League pennants and a World Series.

By the time the Dodgers won the pennant, he reached a point where he couldn’t even take normal batting practice during the week off leading up to the World Series.