After the Los Angeles Dodgers swept their opponents in four games to advance to the World Series, Super Toolman Kike Hernandez said in an interview, "The goal wasn't to get to the World Series, it was to win it. We've talked about it before, and we felt from Day 1 that it would be a lost season if we didn't win the World Series." The Dodgers went to the World Series for the fifth time in the last nine years, losing the World Series in 2017,18 and winning it in 2020,24. This year, the team is challenged to defend its World Series title for the first time in franchise history.