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LA’s hottest ticket: How I survived the 103ºF Dodgers playoff game

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The scoreboard’s thermometer read an eye-popping 103ºF when Tarik Skubal took the mound for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and despite the oppressive heat that blanketed Chavez Ravine, I was just happy to be there. 

Dodgers tickets aren’t cheap during the regular season, and they can get stratospheric during the postseason. Each progressive round seems to logarithmically escalate in price, with World Series tickets going for more than $2,000. 

But on the eve of the first game of the National League Division Series between the Dodgers and Atlanta Braves, as The California Post reported, tickets were as low as $87, which meant the price of entry was 13 degrees lower than the expected scorching temperatures. 

The ticket prices were reasonable, of course, because it was going to be so insanely hot. 

It was a Faustian bargain: Enjoy the athleticism of a generationally talented Dodgers team — but you’re forced to survive the fires of hell. 

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It was risking heatstroke-hospitalization to see extremely well-paid grown men play a game for children.  

Let me walk you through how I rationalized my medically inadvisable decision: Though a lifelong Dodger fan, I’d never been to a playoff game. And two, given the inconvenient fact that I’m a journalist, I’ve never been able to afford a playoff ticket before, either. 

The choice was simple. I embraced the opportunity, and seized the face-melting day.

I........

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