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SPORTS Tuesday 24 OcTOber 2017
Baseball is hot! World Series opens in L.A. with high temps

By GREG BEACHAM southern half of California
AP Sports Writer since 2002, when the then-
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Anaheim Angels won it all.
fastballs aren’t all that’s The sun is scheduled to set
hitting triple digits at the about one hour after the
World Series. first pitch in each of the first
This Fall Classic is going to two games, so the heat
feel like summer. likely won’t last long after
The Los Angeles Dodg- that.
ers and Houston Astros will In fact, the heat could
meet on what’s expected even knock out the marine
to be a 100-degree Tues- layer — the thick air mass
day at Dodger Stadium, caused by cooling tem-
beginning possibly the peratures near the Pacific
warmest World Series ever. Ocean and often blamed
A heat wave slugged for fly balls falling short of
Southern California on the fence from San Diego
Monday, with the tempera- to Oakland.
ture reaching 104 degrees “I think it’s going to benefit
shortly after lunchtime in the hitters,” Dodgers utility-
Chavez Ravine. It was still Oscar Del Real paints the World Series logo on the field at Dodgers Stadium before media day man Kike Hernandez said.
blazing when the Dodgers for baseball’s World Series between the Houston Astros and the Los Angeles Dodgers, Monday, “The hotter it is here, the
and Astros showed up at Oct. 23, 2017, in Los Angeles. better the ball carries.”
Dodger Stadium for brief The Astros are familiar with
late-afternoon workouts. Some forecasts expect Los East Texas, they’ve got hu- it’s unlikely to affect them. a whole different level of
“Never would I have ex- Angeles to be hotter at 8 midity that can wear out The 56,000 Dodgers fans heat combined with hu-
pected that at the end of p.m. EDT on Tuesday. most Californians. are more vulnerable when midity during their long, hot
October, going into No- The Dodgers are in the “Hydration is going to be they crowd into their vener- summers in Houston, but
vember,” Dodgers center World Series for the first key, and trying to cool off able stadium to witness the the roof is usually closed at
fielder Chris Taylor said. time since 1988, and the is going to be key,” Dodg- end of their team’s 29-year Minute Maid Park, where
“That’s LA for you, though.” temperature feels normal ers outfielder Curtis Grand- World Series drought. the air-conditioned tem-
Game 1 has a chance to to the boys in blue. erson said. “But I think if “Love it,” said Dodgers third perature is always around
be the warmest World Se- “Everything is hot in LA!” you would poll everybody, baseman Justin Turner, a 73 balmy degrees. The
ries game on record. The Dodgers closer Kenley Jan- everybody would defi- Southern California native weekend forecast in Hous-
temperature was around sen said with a grin. “The nitely like it to be a little bit and the co-MVP of the NL ton calls for temperatures
94 degrees in Phoenix for Dodgers are hot. Every- warmer than they would Championship Series. perhaps topping 80 de-
the opener of the 2001 body is excited. It’s been a be cold.” “I’d rather be playing in grees.
World Series between the while since Kirk Gibson. Of Indeed, the players are the heat than in the snow, “I think the Astros know
Arizona Diamondbacks course it’s hot today.” used to playing in all tem- so it’s great.”The World Se- about heat,” Dodgers ace
and the New York Yankees The Astros are also used to peratures from March to ries hasn’t visited the three Clayton Kershaw said with
but they played indoors. a little bit of heat — and in October, and they all said open-air ballparks in the a smirk.q
Mets introduce Mickey

Callaway as manager

By DENIS P. GORMAN round and decided there be our main concern. To
Associated Press was only one man for the show them that we know
NEW YORK (AP) — Once job. So rather than going to this game is difficult and we
the New York Mets talked a second round we spent care about you as a player,
to Mickey Callaway, there the rest of our time con- a human being and about
was no need for a second vincing Mickey to come to your personal life.”
round of interviews. New York.” Callaway replaces Terry
They had found their man. The 42-year-old Callaway Collins, who stepped down
Callaway was introduced spent the last five seasons at the end of the season New York Mets new manager Mickey Callaway gestures at the
Monday as the 21st man- as the pitching coach for and accepted a position podium after he was introduced to the media, Monday, Oct. 23,
ager in the National the Cleveland Indians. He as a special assistant to 2017, at CitiField in New York.
League team’s history. agreed to a three-year Alderson. Collins, 68, spent Associated Press
General manager Sandy deal with New York on Sun- seven seasons managing of things (well),” Alderson the AL Central each of the
Alderson said he started day that includes an option the Mets. He was the old- said. “Some of the things last two years, losing in the
with a list of more than 35 for a fourth season. est manager in the major we think are important to- World Series in 2016 and
names for the job, but the “I’m so excited to get to leagues. day relate to this team and bowing out in the AL Divi-
process accelerated once know the players,” Cal- Following consecutive to our situation, but don’t sion Series this month.
he spent some time with laway said. “Care more playoff appearances un- for a minute think all of this Callaway spoke with New
Callaway. about the players than der Collins, including a trip is a projection of anything York third baseman Da-
“It was important for us anyone ever has before. to the 2015 World Series, the that went on before. It’s vid Wright on Sunday,
to have someone, in our We’re going to know that injury-riddled Mets tumbled just a recalibration.” and planned on talking
minds, who was personally they’re human beings and to 70-92 in 2017 during their Under Callaway’s stew- to players following the
excellent,” Alderson said. individuals. This is going to worst season this decade. ardship, Cleveland led the press conference in an at-
“We had planned on hav- be a group that feels that “You’re not the longest- American League in strike- tempt to outline his player-
ing a second round of in- every day we come to the tenured manager in Mets outs in each of the last four personnel management
terviews but ended our first clubhouse. That’s going to history without doing a lot seasons. The Indians won philosophy.q