BOSTON — This World Series is about two things: left-handed pitching and wasting America’s time. The first will probably decide whether the Los Angeles Dodgers or Boston Red Sox are world champions. The second will decide how many of us are still awake. On Tuesday night in Fenway Park, and on-and-on deeper into the night, […]
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Analysis: Over-managing costs Dodgers in Game 1 of Series
Sometimes, in the pressure cooker of a World Series, a manager gets distracted by all those indecipherable charts and the trove of analytics he has at his disposable. Sometimes, he spends too much time flailing around in search of the perfect matchup instead of just watching what’s happening right before his eyes. That’s what happened […]
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Dodgers’ bullpen can’t stop bleeding after Kershaw exit
BOSTON — The first delivery from Ryan Madson was a changeup that bounced past catcher Austin Barnes for a wild pitch, allowing two baserunners to advance. Things hardly got better from there for the previously dependable Dodgers bullpen. Madson and three other relievers failed to slow Boston’s bats on a night when ace Clayton Kershaw wasn’t […]
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Andrew Benintendi sets table for Red Sox Game 1 World Series win
BOSTON — Red Sox manager Alex Cora didn’t want his lefties to feel left out. Even as Los Angeles loaded its lineup with right-handed batters to face Red Sox lefty Chris Sale, Cora stayed with Andrew Benintendi and Rafael Devers against left-handed Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw in Game 1 of the World Series on Tuesday […]
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Aces out: Sale, Kershaw chased early in Series opener
BOSTON — Aces were out early in the World Series, where four-plus innings have become a standard night. The outings of the Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw and Boston’s Chris Sale turned into short stories. Each failed to get an out in the fifth inning Tuesday night, just the fourth time both starting pitchers were chased that early […]
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Red Sox take Game 1 of World Series
BOSTON — The Fenway Funhouse proved too tricky, too cold and just too much for the beach boys. Andrew Benintendi, J.D. Martinez and the Boston Red Sox came out swinging in the World Series opener, seizing every advantage in their quirky ballpark to beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-4 on a chilly, windy Tuesday night. Benintendi […]
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2B or not 2B? Dustin Pedroia, Chase Utley embrace role as elders during World Series runs
BOSTON — Don’t look for Dustin Pedroia and Chase Utley to be turning any double plays during this World Series between the Boston Red Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers. But the presence of both has already had an impact on the clubhouses of the two teams looking to add to their already rich trophy cases. […]
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Red Sox-Dodgers in ’46 World Series? Not part of the program
BOSTON — It took more than a century for these clubs to finally meet again in the Fall Classic. They had plenty of stars, especially during baseball’s Golden Era — Ted Williams, Jackie Robinson and The Duke of Flatbush, among them. But a World Series between the Red Sox and Dodgers just wasn’t part of […]
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Baseball’s best: long nights, strikeouts and pitching changes lengthen postseason
BOSTON — Games have averaged 3 hours, 35½ minutes, up six minutes from the 2017 postseason and more than a half-hour over the regular season. Strikeouts have topped hits in seven of eight postseason matchups. Starting pitchers usually don’t finish the fifth inning and use of relievers is up markedly in an era when “bullpenning” […]
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Red Sox vs. Dodgers: A viewer’s guide to the World Series
Just after 8 p.m. Tuesday, the Red Sox will welcome the Los Angeles Dodgers to Fenway Park for the first game of the 144th edition of the World Series. And history will be made, one way or the other, for either a Red Sox team that won 108 regular season games or a Dodgers team […]