Dodgers somehow surviving Bill Plaschke World Series jinx is incredible

If you're a baseball fan, you're probably at least a little superstitious. Sports are riddled with them. Jinxes, curses — we've heard it all — and we're oftentimes given a lot of reason to believe that they're real.

So it takes a particularly brave person to be as blatantly arrogant as Bill Plaschke was in his recent column for the LA Times. After the Dodgers sustained a World Series Game 4 loss to the Yankees by way of a rout, Plaschke wrote that New York's win could be summed up in two words: "So what." He praised the Dodgers' preservation of their bullpen big guns for later games and dismissed the Yankees' grand claims of being capable of making history despite the deficit.

Ahead of Game 5, Plaschke dismissed what could've been the most deadly jinx of all time and reiterated the same sentiment. He cited what's now well-known history: no team has ever come back from a 3-0 deficit in the World Series, and no team down that badly have ever even been able to force a Game 6.

As it turns out, he was right. The Yankees weren't able to do either. The Dodgers came roaring back in Game 5, in perhaps the most ridiculous, exhilarating come-from-behind win we could asked for in a decisive World Series game.

Bill Plaschke avoids World Series jinx as Dodgers defeat Yankees in Game 5

The Yankees won Game 4 and struck terror into the hearts of Dodgers fans through the first four innings of Game 5, but so what? Eventually New York's defense just completely shot themselves in the foot, and the Dodgers were able to capitalize.

The 2024 Yankees were a good baseball team, but there's a reason that nobody has come back from 3-0 in a World Series, and we're going to have to wait a long time until we see one that actually manages to pull it off.

This all could've gone very, very differently if the Yankees had actually been able to ... you know ... field the ball. We might've been absolutely ripping on Plaschke for jinxing the Dodgers in their Game 5 effort and possibly for Games 6 and 7, but instead we'll be celebrating a parade come Friday. What a time to be alive.