The World Series shifts to LA
Boston leads series, 2-0
The Los Angeles Dodgers are facing long odds as the World Series heads back to Dodger Stadium for Game 3 against the Boston Red Sox on Friday night in Los Angeles.
After dropping the first two games in Boston, the Dodgers find themselves in a precarious position. Fifty-four teams have trailed 0-2 in a best-of-7 World Series, and 43 have lost the series. Of the 11 (20%) that have overcome those odds, three were Dodgers (1955, 1965 and 1981).
In 16 of the last 17 times a team led 2-0, they won the World Series, including each of the last 10.
World Series Game 3 TV & streaming info
- Teams: Red Sox (108-54) vs. Dodgers (92-71)
- Series: Boston leads, 2-0
- Location: Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles
- Time: 8:09 p.m. ET
- TV: FOX
- Online: Fox Sports Go, fuboTV
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was a player on the 2004 Red Sox team that erased a 3-0 series deficit in the ALCS to beat the Yankees, his steal helping him to score the game-tying run in the face of elimination during the ninth inning of Game 4 of that series.
“I think the big takeaway is you can’t win four games in one night. So, just the focus-on-one-game-at-a-time mentality,” Roberts said Thursday. “I know it’s easier said than done. But that’s as simply as you can put it, and that’s the best way to go about it. And I know that’s echoed in our clubhouse.”
Walker Buehler starts Game 3 for the Dodgers, sporting a 5.40 ERA in three postseason starts after a 2.62 ERA in his rookie season. At 24 years, 90 days old, Buehler is the youngest Dodgers pitcher to start a World Series game since Fernando Valenzuela, who was 20 years, 356 days old in Game 3 in 1981, when the Dodgers battled back from down 0-2 to beat the Yankees.
The Red Sox in Game 3 turn to Rick Porcello, who has won 14 consecutive starts against National League teams, dating back to 2015. Porcello in those starts is 10-0 with a 3.43 ERA.