The World Series 2018
Two of baseball's most storied franchises
and yet their only previous postseason meeting came in the
1916 World Series, 102 years ago,
as a 21-year-old Babe Ruth pitched all 14 innings in Game #2
for his Boston Red Sox to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-1.
Boston went on to win the Series in 5 games over Brooklyn.
Boston's 8-7 vs LAD since interleague play began in 1997,
but Boston hasn't hosted LA since 2010, and the teams haven't
squared off since LAD took 2 of 3 at home in August of 2016.
Sale's been a Cy Award frontrunner forever, waiting to happen;
Price won one already as has done Porcello: 3 Aces + a Pen,
a Pen doing in the heart of the Astros lineup who are top tier.
Sure Kershaw's won Cy's, but that's 1 against 3 plus Eovaldi
who's lights out at present & owns a grudge against LAD b/c
they deemed him expendable and easily dealt him away as
useless to them in their quest for the MLB crown.
Besides Turner who nearly always gets on base in the post-
season, there's only Machado with his Mucho Machismo,
and his numbers against the aforesaid 3 Aces are good,
but vs Eovaldi, Macho's only 1 (a solo jack) for 14 (+ 4 BB)
and there's Dozier who has pretty good #'s vs the 3 Aces
and excepting Machado, Dozier's had more at bats vs each
of them than all of the other Dodgers combined.
Martinez owns Kershaw:
BA of nearly .500, slugging 1.091 w/ an OPS of 1.591
and Martinez's weighted On-Base-Average is .646 !!
So this WS is 3 very good pitchers and a professional hitter
= BoSox (-155) Versus LAD (+135) =
3 very good hitters and the sport's most professional pitcher.
Pitching beats hitting, particularly in series, especially those
series played in the postseason.
Boston (-155) to win the WS.