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I'm calling the National League…for the Dodgers.

I'm calling the Dodgers a spot in the World Series.

The poll isn't closed yet, but it's happening, a deal done, a deadly lockout, prepare for tickets, plan parties, spread the word, the Dodgers will advance to their fourth World Series in eight seasons, it is just a matter of time.

Guaranteed.

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After a 10-2 victory over the New York Mets in Game 4 of the National League Championship Series on Thursday night at Citi Field, the Dodgers had a virtually insurmountable three-games-to-one lead.

It's over. The Mets are as messed up as their roasted pitching. They are as exhausted as their fleeing fan base. They probably shouldn't have been here in the first place, and soon they'll be in the Dodgers' rearview mirror along with the San Diego Padres, postseason victims of a very different postseason Dodger team.

The World Series is almost upon us, whether it's won here in Game 5 on Friday night or at Dodger Stadium this weekend, it happens, the Dodgers win another game against a Mets team that has already given up.

All that's left is the champagne and the craziness, and here's a guess that will take place on Friday, with ace Jack Flaherty on the mound and visions of impending greatness in the air.

The Dodgers will not only advance to the World Series starting next week, but will also be big favorites to win against the inferior New York Yankees or the inferior Cleveland Guardians.

There hasn't been a Dodger team this complete since 2017, and they would have won that World Series if the Houston Astros hadn't cheated, so hide all the trash cans and let's go.

How good are these Dodgers? They dominated Thursday night with essentially their “B” team, Freddie Freeman and Gavin Lux out, Chris Taylor playing second base and Tommy Edman batting in cleanup.

They won with a second straight impressive performance from NLDS winner Yoshinobu Yamamoto, with Shohei Ohtani being Shohei Ohtani and everyone else cheering, jabbing and creating like the Dodgers do.

And, oh yeah, Max Muncy walked three times and hit a single to extend his streak on base to a single postseason-record 12 consecutive plate appearances.

Think about it. This Muncy guy is setting records and isn't even one of the top four hitters on the team.

The main man, of course, is Ohtani, who set the tone after just two pitches in this game, breaking out of his strange recent slump with his first hit in 22 at-bats with the bases empty—and boy, what an outburst. It was a 422-foot home run over the right-center field fence. The ball was officially traveling at 118 miles per hour, but like most of his big hits, it looked like it was traveling 1,000 miles per hour.

After the Mets briefly tied the game in the bottom of the first with a Mark Vientos home run – hey, at least they scored! – The Dodgers soon found a way to break this impasse forever.

An unlikely and expected hero did so in the third inning. Edman, making just his third cleanup attempt this season, scored on a double to left off an earlier run by Ohtani. Then Kiké Hernández, who has been doing this all October, took off diving shortstop Lindor's glove for another run.

Think about something else. The Dodgers spent more than $1 billion signing talent this offseason, but two guys who fueled their fire in one of the biggest games of the season on Thursday were an underrated acquisition at the trade deadline and a spring training signing .

Particularly impressive is Edman, who could quietly steal the NLCS MVP award as he is batting .412 with seven RBI.

After spending his career in St. Louis, Edman has clearly embraced the Dodgers culture.

“I just really like the attention to detail,” he said. “We always try to find an advantage. Everyone does their homework. Everyone is prepared for certain situations.”

He added: “I think the other thing that sets this team apart is just the experience, and I think everyone just has a very calm and cool demeanor. “The moment doesn't really get too big for anyone. I think it definitely helps to have a lot of people who have been there in big moments to be able to perform in those situations.”

Such situations have occurred frequently in the first four games, and while the Dodgers have actually had a great performance, the Mets have faltered.

The Mets trailed early Thursday and were never really able to fight back. They loaded the bases with fewer than two outs in two of the first six innings but were only able to yield one run, including three Mets hitters retired by Evan Phillips and Blake Treinen to score three in the sixth inning.

As the Dodgers piled up their runs – once again – the Mets increasingly made quick swings out of the batter's box and offered little resistance with haphazard pitching.

In the first four games of this series, the Dodgers have outscored the Mets 30-9, and it didn't feel that close.

With the quick dominance leading to several days off before the series, the Dodgers will have the advantage of getting healthier, namely Freeman. On Thursday he sat out to rest his badly sprained ankle, which is obviously not a good sign. Freeman limped through seven of eight postseason games, but the bad ankle appeared to have robbed him of his strength, as he had just seven singles in 27 at-bats.

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Manager Dave Roberts admitted it was a strange call.

“He asked me if he was going to be benched,” Roberts said. “That’s one thing. He doesn’t offer days off.”

Roberts noted that Freeman requires up to four hours a day for treatment, but the veteran could use the rest.

“We all know … how much he has to go through to stay on the field,” Roberts said. “So I think he understood that it was in his best interest not to start the game tonight.”

Freeman will undoubtedly be ready any day, sooner or later, for the World Series, which the Dodgers will undoubtedly reach.

Guaranteed.

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This story originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times.