Dave Roberts becomes fastest manager to 1,000 wins as Dodgers beat As

WEST SACRAMENTO –– The cheers began with the final out, continued through the Dodgers’ postgame handshake line, and didn’t end until the man of the night had walked all the way off the field.With the Dodgers’ 9-3 win over the Athletics on Tuesday night, Dave Roberts became the 69th manager in MLB history to win 1,000 career games, and reached the mark faster than anyone else to previously enter the club.A grand accomplishment.An historic milestone.

And a moment not lost on the Dodger-heavy crowd of 12,387 at Sutter Health Park in Sacramento –– many of whom stuck around to serenade the skipper as he smiled and waved on his way back to the left field clubhouse. “I know people say the word surreal a lot, but it is surreal,” Roberts said once he arrived back in his office, following a champagne toast with his players and celebratory embraces with practically all of the team’s traveling party.“Because you take a step back and look at the body of work, it’s been a fun ride.

It really has.”This, of course, wasn’t the setting Roberts would have been expecting his landmark moment to come in, on a nondescript Tuesday night at the triple-A ballpark the Athletics are temporarily calling home.Then again, reaching 1,000 wins was not something Roberts foresaw when he was hired as a first-time manager by the Dodgers before the 2016 season, either, unable to imagine the run of success that has followed.“That’s a long time of consistent winning, let alone keeping a job for 11 years,” he said jokingly.“That’s just kind of the life I chose.

But yeah, to kind of put your head down and look back and go, ‘Oh my god, I’m here,’ it’s mind-blowing.I still feel like I’m getting better, and I still enjoy it.”In his 11th season helming the Dodgers, and only his 1,606th at the top step of the dugout, Roberts watched his team record career win No.

1,000 in relative easy fashion Tuesday, getting to kick back and relax as he added another accol...