With the world on fire right now, with a tragic mess raging in the Middle East (which we’re covering in depth here at The American Spectator), I’m reluctant to chime in with some much-less-important baseball news, which is plainly superficial by comparison. But as readers here know, throughout the month of June, liberals’ new high holy month — Pride Month — we at The American Spectator gave considerable attention to Major League Baseball’s most anti-Catholic franchise, the Los Angeles Dodgers. Dodgers’ officials saw fit to celebrate Pride Night at their ballpark by honoring an anti-Catholic hate group, the so-called Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and did so despite protests nationwide and right outside the gates of the ballpark by Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

Some non-fans of baseball might be wondering what happened to the Dodgers thereafter. Well, the end results, which came this Wednesday evening, were almost as ugly as the “sisters.”

After racking up yet another 100-win season, the Dodgers haplessly failed again to make it through the divisional round of the playoffs and to the World Series. Most dubiously, they were outright swept by the second-place team in their division, the Arizona Diamondbacks, who won 16 less games than the Dodgers — 84 in total.

The way the Dodgers lost on Wednesday night was especially shocking. By the seventh inning, as it increasingly looked as though the Dodgers were doomed (trailing 4–0), the team had scored only four runs in the whole series up to that point. The club had no less than four hitters with 100 RBI each — an impressive offensive juggernaut — and yet all four were effectively shut out.

In contrast, the Diamondbacks were on a roll. During Wednesday’s game, they blasted four solo home runs in just one inning.

The ESPN post-game analysis captured the Dodgers’ record of futility:

The Dodgers became only the second team in baseball history to win 100 games during the regular season and never have so much as a lead during an ensuing postseason series, joining the 1963 New York Yankees, who were swept in the World Series by the Dodgers of another time. It marked the third straight year the Dodgers were eliminated in the postseason by a team they finished more than 15 games better than during the regular season. In each of the past two years, they were defeated in the NLDS by a division rival they previously dominated — first by the San Diego Padres then by Arizona, both in the wake of relatively long layoffs….

The Dodgers won 100-plus games in 2019, 2021, 2022 and 2023 and were eliminated in their first playoff series in three of those years, the lone exception being a 2021 season that ended at the hands of the eventual-champion Atlanta Braves in the NL Championship Series. These past 10 years have seen them put together one of the most successful regular-season stretches in baseball history, but it has resulted in only one championship, accomplished during the pandemic-shortened season of 2020.

The City of Angels could have used some heavenly help in this series against Arizona. Instead, Dodgers’ fans had the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in their corner. Those hairy-legged blasphemers and mockers of Catholic nuns apparently weren’t adequate enough cheerleaders — nor intercessors — for the Los Angeles Dodgers to prevail this postseason.

And now, Dodgers fans must indulge another 100-win regular season with no World Series trophy. Well, at least they can take pride in their Sisters of Indulgence.