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World Series Game 1 to be cold one for Dodgers, Red Sox

By BEN WALKER surgery.
BOSTON (AP) — Hooting During the AL Champion-
and hollering, Chris Taylor ship Series, Houston left
and a couple of Dodg- fielder Marwin Gonzalez got
ers took aim at the Green lost out there and banged
Monster. With their arms, hard into the scoreboard,
not bats. which isn't padded. He was
Standing in left field, they down for a while.
kept throwing balls at a "Crazy bounces, all the
small, square space in the odd angles. Off the score-
scoreboard, shouting every board, off the numbers,"
time a miss clanged off the said Dodgers starter Rich
metal letters. Hill, who previously pitched
"I've got good aim!" Tay- for the Red Sox.
lor shouted after he finally "Or you hook one down the
tossed one through, ending line toward Pesky's Pole,
the contest Monday. it's probably less than 200
A lot of fun for Los Angeles, feet down there," he said.
frolicking at Fenway Park "There's not a park like this."
during a World Series work- Taylor made a sensa-
out. tional catch in left-center
Might not look, sound and field Saturday night as the
feel so friendly come Game Dodgers beat Milwaukee
1 on Tuesday night. in Game 7 of the NLCS. He's
"It's a completely different played at Fenway, albeit a
atmosphere," Boston re- few years ago with Seattle.
liever Heath Hembree cau- Boston Red Sox's J.D. Martinez, left, speaks with Boston Red Sox's Mookie Betts during batting prac- "I'll feel it out," he said.
tioned. "Are they going to tice for the World Series baseball game Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Boston. The Red Sox and Dodgers
feel the Monster breathing Associated are meeting in the World
down on them?" Series for the first time
Goes beyond the ballpark, But he went through a drill dugout certainly is more in- initely see how this could since 1916. The Dodgers
too. in bullpen Sunday night, viting. raise some challenges for haven't played an inter-
"I think the biggest chal- going through his entire "It's a lot better wearing the a team that doesn't play league game at Fenway
lenge for a team coming routine on the mound — white uniforms," said Chris here a lot." since 2010, meaning Yasiel
in here is you're playing the even going to his mouth Sale, who starts the opener Fans saw that earlier in the Puig, Cody Bellinger and
Boston Red Sox," pitcher and wiping his hand before for Boston. "It's not an easy playoffs. A relative stranger Max Muncy will be getting
Nathan Eovaldi said. taking the ball out of his place to play as a visitor." to the 37-foot-high wall, their first looks on the field.
That's the part Clayton Ker- glove — without throwing "This ballpark definitely Yankees left fielder Andrew Rookie Walker Buehler vis-
shaw will focus on, trying to a single pitch. On Monday, brings its challenges in McCutchen misplayed a ited a couple times while
contain Mookie Betts, J.D. he loosened up in a cutoff terms of it's different. It's not carom in the AL Division he played in the amateur
Martinez and a team that T-shirt and ski cap. your standard wall out in Series. Shortstop Didi Gre- Cape Cod League.
blitzed to a team-record "Check this one off as far center field, just kind of a gorius wandered far into Red Sox reliever Brandon
108 wins, then breezed as pitching tomorrow, but I half-oval. We have ... nooks the outfield, retrieved the Workman appreciates the
through the AL playoffs. don't really think about the and crannies and some carom and made a long oldest park in the majors,
A three-time NL Cy Young history part of it too much, sharp edges and some dif- relay — and wound up which opened about a
Award winner, Kershaw has honestly," he said. ferent things going on out hurting his elbow, an injury week after the Titanic sank
never pitched at Fenway. The view from the other there," he said. "I could def- that required Tommy John in 1912.q

Former MLB star Dykstra pleads

not guilty to threat charge

majors and was a mem- able by up to five years in "Anyone who knows him,
ber of the New York Mets' prison. knows that," he told report-
1986 championship team, Dykstra claimed the driver ers. "Lenny is a wild guy.
told reporters as he left tried to kidnap him after Lenny is a man of the peo-
the courthouse he would Dykstra asked to change ple, but Lenny's not a bad
"let the process handle it- the trip's destination. The guy, he's not a violent guy
self and the truth will come driver allegedly told police and the evidence in this
out." Dykstra held a gun to his case is going to show that."
In this Jan. 4, 2008, file photo, former Major League Baseball Dykstra was indicted this head, though no weapon Since retiring from baseball,
player Lenny Dykstra poses for a portrait in New York. month on one count each was found. Dykstra has served prison
Associated Press of cocaine and meth- Police said they found the time for bankruptcy fraud,
amphetamine possession drugs in Dykstra's posses- grand theft auto and mon-
ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — threat charges stemming and with making terroristic sion. ey laundering. He declared
Ex-Major League Base- from an altercation with an threats in connection with Dykstra's attorney, David bankruptcy in 2009, claim-
ball player Lenny Dykstra Uber driver. the May 23 incident in Lin- Bahuriak, called the inci- ing he owed more than
pleaded not guilty Mon- The three-time All-Star, who den, where he lives. dent "overblown" and said $31 million and had only
day to drug and terroristic played 12 seasons in the All three crimes are punish- Dykstra is innocent. $50,000 in assets.q