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Rounding
3rd

Two titles down. One historic October away. The Dodgers are chasing a third consecutive World Series championship while surviving the pressure, mileage, injuries and inevitable summer turbulence of a dynasty.

Dodger Stadium, April 2024. Photo: Pi.1415926535 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Subtle motion treatment by Ewing Journal.

Three-season ledger

Every mile. Every base. Every out.

The tracker is designed for weekly updates. The 2024 championship season is complete, the 2025 repeat is complete, and 2026 remains season-to-date.

2024 runs842Regular season
2024 hits1,423Regular season
2024 walks602Regular season
2024 home runs233Regular season
2024 postseason11–5World champions
2025 regular season93–69825 runs · 244 HR
2025 postseason13–4World champions
2026 record70–47Through Aug. 8 · 117 games
RUNS · HITS · WALKS
TOTAL BASES · HOME RUNS
PITCHING STRIKEOUTS

Travel methodology: a full three-year mileage total requires game-by-game city routing, including postseason travel. This feature reserves a live route module for that verified calculation rather than presenting an estimate as fact.

Baseball by the strange numbers

What three seasons look like when you stop counting only wins.

The ledger combines the completed 2024 and 2025 regular seasons with the 117-game 2026 snapshot through Aug. 8. Derived figures are labeled as Ewing Journal calculations.

441regular-season games tracked
6,574total bases
1,423extra-base hits
3,920strikeouts by Dodgers pitchers; 2026 pitching snapshot through 115 games
112.1 miof 90-foot base advancement represented by those total bases
42.8 miaround the bases from 628 home-run circuits
≈31.8K–37.0Kbaseballs potentially prepared for 441 regular-season games using a 6–7 dozen-per-game clubhouse benchmark
3,837hits across the ledger
2,256runs scored across the ledger

Calculation notes: 112.1 miles converts 6,574 total bases × 90 feet. The 42.8-mile figure converts 628 home runs × a 360-foot trip around four 90-foot basepaths; it is not estimated batted-ball flight distance. The baseball-use range applies MLB clubhouse reporting of roughly 6–7 dozen balls per game to 441 regular-season games and should be read as an illustrative estimate, not a Dodgers inventory count.

2026 outlook

A pace line, not a promise.

The Dodgers’ Aug. 8 rate projects a 97-win regular season. October is modeled separately because postseason length depends on series results.

Regular-season pace97–65816 runs · 209 HR
Division Series exit4 gamesAbout +20 runs · +5 HR
NLCS run10 gamesAbout +50 runs · +13 HR
World Series run17 gamesAbout +86 runs · +22 HR

Ewing Journal projections: the regular-season pace is a straight-line extrapolation from 117 games; postseason scenarios apply the same per-game scoring and home-run rates. They are analytical ranges, not MLB results or betting forecasts.

The core

Stars, ace and architect.

Shohei Ohtani
Shohei Ohtani
Power, pressure, possibility.
Mookie Betts
Mookie Betts
Versatility and October nerve.
Freddie Freeman
Freddie Freeman
Professional at-bats and quiet force.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
Yoshinobu Yamamoto
The ace who closed 2025.
Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts
The manager of a historic chase.
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts
Dave Roberts at the 2015 Winter Meetings. Photo: Arturo Pardavila III / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
The manager in the middle

Dave Roberts manages the weight of the run.

The three-peat chase is not only a collection of star performances. It is also an exercise in managing a roster through injuries, bullpen fatigue, rotation uncertainty and the expectations that arrive after consecutive championships. Roberts sits at the point where all of those pressures become decisions.

October is built in the ordinary innings
98–642024 regular season
93–692025 regular season
70–47through Aug. 8, 2026
The present tense

A slump is a chapter, not the ending.

The Aug. 8 extra-inning win in Arizona ended a seven-game losing streak and moved Los Angeles to 70–47. A weekly dynasty journal should not hide turbulence. It should measure how a championship club responds when the pressure of a three-year run collides with the ordinary volatility of a baseball season.

Official highlights

This season, so far.

Watch Shohei Ohtani’s 2026 two-run homer

Official MLB highlight · opens on MLB.com

Sources & calculation notes

What is measured, and what is estimated.

Editorial disclaimer

Independent coverage.

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