Why the Dodgers Will Win Game 2

Edition #184

What a tense win that was for the Dodgers on Friday. We saw so many triples from the Dodgers and a huge Giancarlo Stanton home run that made the game close.

Why do I think the Dodgers are going to win game 2? Well, there are a lot of key stats pointing in that direction, including the players for the Dodgers.

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Why?

The team that wins Game 1 wins the World Series 65% (125 of 191 times) of the time. It doesn’t seem like that number, though, because in the last 13 years, the team that has won the first game has won the World Series 11 out of 13 times. Want to know more than that? In the best-of-seven postseason series, 23 of 29 times (79%) in the World Series since 1995 has the team that’s won first taken the series. In all series under the current 2-3-2 format, teams winning Game 1 at home have taken the series 68 of 101 times (67%).

As I said in my preview article, they could win as long as the Yankees keep Shohei in check. This time, they lost in an entirely different way. A fan interference screwed things, then an error by Gleyber Torres killed things too. But, the main reason they lost, was because of the inability of the Yankees’ defense. They couldn’t field the balls that were rolling against the walls, resulting in even an injured Freddie Freeman getting an extra-base hit. Oh, and giving the ball to Nestor Cortes when you have Tim Hill in the bullpen? That’s even more crap.

The Yankees are definitely going to face some adversity if they want to win this World Series. They still have a clear path to this World Series (because the numbers above are targeting the Dodgers), but going down 2-0 could be the worst thing that could happen. If the Yankees can jump on Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s rookie nerves, then they could win.

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