Sooner or later, when you exclusively depend on the success rate of mathematical probability as your primary influence of decision making, things are going to backfire. Ultimately, predictability is not how things will go, but how they can go. And things didn’t go quite the way Dodgers‘ skipper Dave Roberts had hoped in Game 2 of the World Series in Los Angeles on Wednesday evening.
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The heat in L.A. today was unusual. The performance on the field was not. In October, some teams feed of the crisp, autumn feeling in the air. These past two days, though, the Dodgers have thrived off the record temperatures in the great city of Los Angeles.
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One day after rolling out a predominantly right-handed hitting lineup against Dallas Keuchel and the Astros in the 2017 World Series opener, skipper Dave Roberts and the management crew of the Dodgers have elected to mix in a few lefty bats to face veteran righty Justin Verlander in Game 2.
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Did the Dodgers win Game 1 of the World Series? Yes. Did Chris Taylor and Justin Turner homer? Yes. Clayton Kershaw pitched a gem, but quite possibly the most important part of the whole thing was the crowd. Dodger fans flocked by the thousands to Chavez Ravine on Tuesday night to witness a game that had the possibility to be one of the most historic nights in Dodger history.
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While the end result has not yet been reached, Clayton Kershaw can now say he’s a World Series game winner, and he has Justin Turner to thank for it.
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Squaring off against left-hander Dallas Keuchel in the opening game of the World Series on Tuesday evening, skipper Dave Roberts and the management crew of the Dodgers have decided to employ a predominantly right-handed batting order.
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About six hours before the first pitch on Tuesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers announced their 25-man player roster for the 2017 World Series.
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For Dodgers fans, the time has finally come. For 29 excruciatingly long years, fans young and old have waited for the Dodgers to return to the World Series. With a 3-1 series win in the NLCS over the Chicago Cubs, who defeated the Dodgers last year in the same series, Los Angeles will be taking on the Houston Astros. I decided to go on to Twitter and ask fans just what the Dodgers returning to the Fall Classic meant to them.
After the Astros won the ACLS, former Dodgers‘ outfielder Josh Reddick said he was looking forward to winning World Series games at Dodger Stadium because fans booed him during his brief tenure wearing the Blue. Not surprisingly, his comments were not well-received by many of the fan base, at least those commenting on Dodgers Twitter.
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When I initially sat down to take a few notes for the statistical end of today’s column, my intention was to create a theme centered on the advantages the Astros have over the Dodgers in the 2017 World Series—at least on paper, anyway. The problem I had, however, was no matter how far I would stretch certain theories and statistics, I simply could not come up with more than just a few factors which favored the Astros, all bias aside. Even the Houston offense, as prolific as it was this year, doesn’t have a significant edge over the Los Angeles crew.
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