Welcome folks, it’s a resplendent fall day in Flatbush, and six months ago, who could have imagined this? The visiting Los Angeles Dodgers are ready to take the field in Brooklyn at the new Ebbets Field with the 2025 National League pennant on the line.

Standing in the way of the L.A. nine are their literal offspring, the Brooklyn Trolleys, the most unusual expansion team in baseball history. Champions of the NL West, the Trolleys’ 98 wins earned them today’s homefield edge over the 87-win wild-card Dodgers.

The grandstand at Ebbets is already full on this clear autumn day, the patrons shuffling through the fabulous rotunda down below. The scoreboard is gleaming and the reconstituted Schaefer Beer sign above it is ready to call the hits and errors.

Roki Sasaki is making his final warmup throws now for Brooklyn. Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani watches from the on-deck circle, ready to lead off the game for Los Angeles. Game 7 of the NLCS is about to get underway.

It’s time for Trolleys baseball!

Wait … what is happening here?

The Los Angeles Dodgers — the real ones — are working on a streak of 12 straight playoff appearances. Eleven of those seasons have ended with an NL West title. Four have added to the franchise’s pennant count. After last fall’s World Series win over the New York Yankees, two of those seasons have resulted in championships.

After this winter’s stunning run of high-level acquisitions, people are asking with real concern about whether the Dodgers might have finally broken baseball. It’s not hard to understand why.

The expectations for the Dodgers have never been higher, and that’s saying something. ESPN Bet currently has the Dodgers’ over/under for wins at 103.5, 10 more than any other team. Cot’s Contracts estimates L.A.’s CBT payroll number at $374.1 million. If you split that in half — $187.05 million — the CBT payroll would still rank 15th in the majors.

Hmmm, split the Dodgers in half? Is that a solution? Well, obviously it is not. But let’s imagine that it was, that some trust-busting commissioner took over, or some bizarre schism took place in the Guggenheim Baseball Management group.

This is fantastical, but stick with me. Here’s the sequence of events that have led to our dream game at a brand new version of Ebbets Field.

• The Dodgers’ dominance and hoarding of superstar talent becomes viewed as an existential threat to baseball. Fans are screaming. Owners are wringing their hands.

• Partially in response to this situation, Colorado Rockies owner Dick Monfort announces that his franchise is withdrawing from MLB and will join the Banana Ball Championship League. The Rockies struggle in their new circuit, but their fans keep turning out anyway.

• Fights break out in the Guggenheim group. Who knows why. Lawsuits are filed. Desperate to resolve the situation and to fill the one-team void in the NL West, commissioner Rob Manfred takes up a Brooklyn developer’s offer to construct an exact replica of Ebbets Field on the same block where the sacred old green cathedral stood for decades. The residents who are currently there are respectfully relocated. The new park springs up with alarming alacrity.

• At the winter meetings, Manfred’s solution is announced. The Dodgers will be split in half. Everything. Their organizational talent — on the field and off — is divided evenly. The offshoot of the Dodgers will play at the reconstituted Ebbets Field and will be called the Trolleys, keeping with tradition. The new club will be managed by Gabe Kapler and its front office run by Farhan Zaidi.

It’s a lot, I know. It’s impossible. But let’s suspend disbelief for just a moment so we can get at a real question: Have the Dodgers accumulated so much talent that, at this point, they could field two contending rosters?

Before Game 7 gets underway, let’s run through the lineup Dodgers manager Dave Roberts will pit against Brooklyn ace Sasaki.

Designated hitter Ohtani will lead off. Batting second is shortstop Tommy Edman. Catcher Will Smith is in the three-hole. Batting cleanup is right fielder Teoscar Hernandez. Out in left and batting fifth is Michael Conforto. Batting sixth is center fielder Andy Pages.

Youngster Dalton Rushing will play first and hit seventh, followed by third baseman Chris Taylor in the eight-hole. Finally, batting ninth and playing the keystone is second baseman Andy Freeland.

Let’s get started.

To divide the Dodgers’ current organizational roster, I took a straightforward approach. I started by flipping a coin for Ohtani. Los Angeles got him. Since Ohtani pitches and hits, I then gave Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman to Brooklyn.

From there, I just ranked each positional group by projected WAR and assigned every other player to one team or the other. Some jostling was done to make sure the spread of positions was equitable and that the bottom-line WAR projection was as close as possible. Each team was assigned 35 players.

Kirby Yates, whose reported agreement with the Dodgers has not yet gone official, was included. So was Clayton Kershaw, still a free agent, but let’s face it — we all think he’s going back to L.A.

We had to dip pretty deep into prospect lists to fill things out, accelerating the MLB arrival of some young players in a way that would never happen. The Dodgers’ list of non-roster invites for spring training was light on veterans with any kind of track record, so other than Yates and Kershaw, we had to stick with who is already on hand.

Here are Opening Day rosters of the split-in-two Dodgers, which are also the rosters in effect for our imaginary game.