Dodgers’ Magic Number: The World’s Tiniest Countdown to Manufactured Hope
The Dodgers’ Magic Number: A Decimal in a World Running Out of Numbers By J. B. Vespers, International Correspondent LOS ANGELES—While the Eastern Hemisphere slept off another round of sovereign-debt nightmares, a spreadsheet cell in Chavez Ravine quietly ticked from “6” to “5.” In baseball shorthand, that single digit is the Dodgers’ “magic number”—the alchemic…