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Dodgers fans now have every motivation to bury Phillies as rival fans attempt weak troll

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Emma Lingan
Emma Lingan

Dodgers Way

Division Series - Los Angeles Dodgers v Philadelphia Phillies - Game Two / Emilee Chinn/GettyImages

After failing to secure the sweep in Game 3 of the NLDS, the Los Angeles Dodgers are headed to Game 4 against the Philadelphia Phillies – and they'll have some extra ammunition to close the series out, once and for all.

Philadelphia-based sports reporter Jason Dumas took a video during the Phillies' Game 3 win over the Dodgers in Los Angeles that was later shared on social media by Barstool Philly.

The video showed Dodger fans heading for the exits in the seventh inning as Kyle Schwarber hit his second homer of the night off of Clayton Kershaw and caught the live reaction of one Philadelphia fan at the game who was particularly, shall we say, enthused.

Dodgers fans now have every motivation to bury the Phillies after Game 3 of the NLDS because the tension between these two powerhouse fanbases runs far deeper than one playoff game. After Philadelphia fans tried to troll Los Angeles following that loss, the Dodgers’ fanbase now has both emotional fuel and competitive justification to fire back – hard.

While not a traditional rivalry geographically, the Dodgers-Phillies rivalry has become the new National League power struggle. Both have superstar-laden rosters, MVP-caliber hitters and pitching staffs full of aces. Every postseason clash feels like a heavyweight fight –and fanbases have taken on that same edge online.

So when Phillies fans chirp after a single Dodgers loss, L.A. fans see it as a personal attack on the standard they’ve built. The response isn’t just about defending one game; it’s about defending an era.

Philadelphia fans love to act like their team owns October, but the truth is that despite all the hype, the Phillies still haven’t won a World Series since 2008 and have twice fallen short with stacked, expensive rosters in 2022 and 2023. So when they try to clown the Dodgers – a team that has been the NL’s model of consistency for a decade – it comes off as empty bravado. That kind of hypocrisy is easy ammunition for Dodgers fans.

Dodgers fans aren’t just reacting emotionally – they’re responding to years of revisionist trolling, hollow bravado, and fake underdog posturing from a rival that hasn’t finished the job. The post-Game 3 taunts only lit the fuse.

Now, Dodgers fans have every motivation to bury the Phillies both on the field and in the discourse – to remind everyone that in the National League, L.A. still sets the standard, and Philly is just trying to catch up.

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Emma Lingan

Emma Lingan

Emma Lingan is an MLB Staff Writer for FanSided primarily covering the Pittsburgh Pirates. She has been covering baseball for more than a decade dating back to her time as a student at Wake Forest University, and she has won two gold medals as a member of the U.S. National Team delegation (2016 Pan-American Championships & 2017 World Baseball Classic). A native of Washington, D.C. and current resident of Nashville, Tenn., she is also entering her seventh season as a credentialed NHL media member and currently covers the NHL’s Nashville Predators for The Hockey News. When she's not watching hockey, baseball or football, she enjoys podcasting, reading, going to the gym, consuming large amounts of coffee and taking long walks with her dog, Minkah. You can follow her @Emma_lingan on Twitter and Instagram.