Dodgers Edge D-Backs 5-4: A Global Scorecard for Late-Stage Capitalism
Dodgers 5, Diamondbacks 4: A Box Score for the End of the World By the time Mookie Betts flicked a 97-mph sinker into the right-field pavilion, Tokyo was already asleep, Lagos was debating fuel prices, and a Berlin bartender was pouring last-call beers while half-watching the MLB.TV feed. In the grand scheme—famine, war, the slow-motion…