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Astros

get the OUT

punishment,

Dodgers

pay PACED

the price

By TIM DAHLBERG
AP Sports Columnist
AJ Hinch won't be manag-
ing in the big leagues any
time soon, if at all. Alex
Cora will soon join him in
the unemployment line,
and it's hard to believe
anyone will ever give him
another job that involves
being a leader of men.
The punishments — techni-
cally Cora's is still to come
— fit the crime, and for that
baseball commissioner
Rob Manfred deserves a
pat on the back. Give an-
other one to Astros owner
Jim Crane, who did his part
to clean up an increasingly
smelly mess in Houston by
immediately firing both
his manager and general
manager.
But that doesn't bring real
justice. It can't.
Not to the Los Angeles
Dodgers, who are now
at 32 years and counting
without a World Series title
Not to Clayton Kershaw,
whose postseason failings
were magnified in game 5
at Minute Maid Park when
the Dodgers ace was
raked for six runs and didn't
make it out of the fifth in-
ning.
And certainly not to Yu
Darvish, whose reputation Warren, Brogdon help Pacers
— and nearly his career —
got trashed when he was
routed by the Astros in two beat 76ers again, 101-95
games of the 2017 World
Series.
Yes, the official record
shows the Houston Astros Indiana Pacers' Malcolm Brogdon (7) is fouled by
are still your 2017 World Se- Philadelphia 76ers' Ben Simmons (25) as he goes up for
ries champions and that's
not going to change re- a shot during the first half of an NBA basketball game,
gardless of the outcry from Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, in Indianapolis.
Southern California. Associated Press
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