Darvish: Take back Houston’s hardware

The Dodgers, past and present, are not letting this go.

Commissioner Rob Manfred may have had his say on the Astros punishment, but no matter what he says, no one thinks justice has been done. Those who are most peeved about Houston’s cheating scandal in 2017 are the Dodgers, the team beat out of World Series championship that year.

So during Cubs spring camp in Arizona on Sunday, Yu Darvish — the former Dodgers pitcher who lost Games 3 and 7 to Houston in the 2017 World Series — put his two cents in.

“It’s like the Olympics,” Darvish told ESPN, “When player cheats, you can’t have a gold medal right? But they still have a World Series title. That make me feel, like, weird. That’s it.”Darvish certainly isn’t wrong to feel “weird.” In both game against the Astros, Darvish never even made it out of the second inning.

In Game 3, the Astros lit Darvish up for four runs in the second inning. He was pulled from the game shortly after. In Game 7, Darvish again couldn’t keep runners off base through 1.2 and was pulled after getting tagged with five runs (four earned) early on.

Even fellow former Dodgers’ pitcher Kenta Maeda thought there was something odd with how the Darvish struggled in both those games.

“Yu Darvish usually doesn’t give up that many hits, in that sense now that this news has come out, it makes sense — and he didn’t get any strikeouts,” Maeda, now a Twin, said Friday .

“One more thing. (Carlos) Correa talking about (Cody) Bellinger. I saw that yesterday. So they cheat, I think, so right now they don’t have to talk. They shouldn’t talk like that right now,” Darvish said.