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Chris Sale will start for the Red Sox in that game, and there's every chance the Fall Classic opener will be a classic pitcher's duel.The Red Sox won 108 regular-season games and will have home-field advantage throughout the World Series. Boston is attempting to win its fourth World Series title since 2004, while L.A. is hoping to make up for last year's seven-game loss to the Houston Astros.The Dodgers' most recent of their six World Series triumphs came in 1988. They beat a heavily favored Oakland Athletics team in five games, and they are underdogs in this series to the Red Sox."It doesn't matter how you get there, and we are excited," Kershaw saidin a postgame interview with Tom Verducci on FS1. 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He hit a bases-loaded double in Game 2, he hammered a grand slam in Game 3 and followed that with the go-ahead two-run homer in Game 4 that proved to be the big hit in that contest.The Red Sox are led Mookie Betts and J.D. Martinez, who have both been dynamic this season. Betts won the American League batting crown, hit 32 home runs and stole 30 bases. Martinez hammered 43 homers and drove in a major league-best 130 runs.The Red Sox also depend on Xander Bogaerts, Andrew Benintendi and third baseman Rafael Devers.The Dodgers will counter with Justin Turner, Manny Machado, Bellinger and Puig.These two franchises last met in the World Series in 1916. At that time http://www.stlouiscardinalsteamshop.com/authentic-lou-brock-jersey , the Dodgers were known as the Robins and played in Brooklyn, New York. The Red Sox defeated the Brooklyn Robins four games to one.After losing the World Series in heartbreaking fashion to the Astros last year, the Dodgers will try to make the Red Sox feel their pain this time around. MILWAUKEE (AP) — Told he had the day off after pitching three shutout innings in the NL Championship Series opener, hard-throwing Milwaukee left-hander Josh Hader wasn’t expecting a call to the bullpen.After watching Brewers relievers blow a late three-run lead in Game 2, Hader would have embraced back-to-back outings, high pitch count and all.“Adrenaline can do a lot things,” he said when asked if he could have pitched.The best-of-seven series is tied at a game apiece after the Dodgers dented the rest of the Brewers’ hard-throwing relievers in the late innings for a second straight day and won 4-3 on Saturday.While Wade Miley pitched 5 2/3 shutout innings and became Milwaukee’s first pitcher to get an out in the sixth inning in the postseason, the Dodgers rallied from a three-run, seventh-inning deficit for the win.Miley had thrown 74 pitches when he was removed.“Look you’re either too early or too late,” manager Craig Counsell said. “At some point, you’ve got to make a decision, and I thought he was going through the heart of the lineup for the third time.”Milwaukee had the fifth-best bullpen ERA during the regular season at 3.47, including a best-in-the-majors 1.98 in September.But the bullpen has been showing cracks. Milwaukee pitchers made 72 appearances during the Brewers’ 12-game winning streak Ken Boyer Jersey , including 24 in the first four games of the playoffs. It’s a heavy workload.Other than Hader, the Brewers’ bullpen has allowed eight runs in 7 1/3 innings against Los Angeles, a 9.82 ERA.Milwaukee nearly wasted a five-run lead in Game 1 before holding on for a 6-5 win Friday night when Corey Knebel struck out Justin Turner to strand the potential tying run on third. Four relievers gave up four runs and five hits in the last two inningsWith the Brewers ahead 3-0 in the seventh in Game 2, Corbin Burnes walked Max Muncy leading off the seventh, gave up a single to Manny Machado and an RBI single to Cody Bellinger. Jeremy Jeffress came in and forced in a run with a one-out, bases-loaded walk to Austin Barnes before getting Yasmani Grandal to ground into a double play.But Chris Taylor singled leading off the eighth and Turner followed with a go-ahead, two-run homer.Jeffress sat by himself quietly in the dugout after leaving the game, blowing bubble gum.“It’s just, you know, the nature of the game. I can’t strike everybody out. I can’t make everybody hit a ground ball. I am human,” Jeffress said when asked how he felt mentally and physically.“But right now I feel great. It’s just you have to make pitches in big counts. Better results will happen.”Hader, who broke a 44-year-old record for regular-season strikeouts by a left-handed reliever, had thrown 46 pitches in the opener.A travel day might allow the bullpen to reset heading into Game 3 Monday at Dodger Stadium http://www.stlouiscardinalsteamshop.com/authentic-mike-shannon-jersey , though Counsell said he would check with how his big three of Jeffress, Hader and Knebel felt on the day off. Knebel has thrown 31 pitches over two innings in the first two games.Jeffress blew a lead for the second time in the postseason. He wasted a 2-0, ninth-inning advantage in the Division Series opener against Colorado, a game the Brewers rebounded to win in 10 innings.“For me, J.J. made one bad pitch today,” Counsell said, “and it cost him.”Milwaukee has been using its talented young pitchers in the postseason for multiple innings. It worked in the Division Series, but that philosophy is being tested by the Dodgers.“I’m sure they had a scouting report before we came in,” Hader said. “We’re going to have the days that those the bloopers fall in, and there are going to be days that those bloopers get caught. It just didn’t go our way that time.”
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