Dodgers: Win in Baltimore extends historic division title streak

The Dodgers are on their way to becoming a historic franchise with a postseason streak akin with some of the best teams of recent times.

With their win last night at Baltimore, the Dodgers got a chance to celebrate their seventh-straight NL West title in style, and also with plenty of Budweiser.

The streak has grown to quite the impressive size now, as it stands alone as the third-best streak in the divisional era, behind two teams with the some of the most stacked dynasties in the modern era.

Both the Atlanta Braves and New York Yankees of the 1990s still have better streaks than the current Dodgers, but as the only team of this decade with any such solid streak intact, the Guggenheim Group and the Dodgers have a chance to do something special.

When it comes to consecutive division titles, the Dodgers are still chasing the Braves and Yankees in that race as well.  The way the Dodgers are loaded with young talent, they certainly have a chance to at least catch the Yankees.

While the team has not had many holdovers since 2013, beyond of course Clayton Kershaw, Kenley Jansen, and Justin Turner, it does have the potential to go on for as long as the Braves and Yankees dynasties before them.

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Will Smith, Walker Buehler, Gavin Lux, Corey Seager, and MVP-hopeful Cody Bellinger all are in their early-20s and should be around to help extend the NL West streak for as long as possible.

One notable difference between these Dodgers and the Hall of Fame dynasties of a few decades prior? Those dynasties brought home rings.

Atlanta’s star-studded rotation of John Smoltz, Tom Glavine, and Greg Maddux paired with a rising star in Chipper Jones led to big things in 1995. In New York, the most hated dynasty of the modern era emerged from the 2000-2010 decade with four World Series rings. Derek Jeter, Chuck Knoblach, Mariano Rivera, Alfonso Soriano and more led stacked Yankees teams to titles in 1996, 1998, 1999, and 2000.

The Dodgers seem to have comparable rosters, though there is only one guaranteed Hall of Famer on the roster (so far).

If some of the team’s many role players can step up, they may be able to go beyond a three-peat of NL pennants and go all the way for the first time since before either of these dynasties began.