Astros. Athletics. Mike Fiers. October baseball. What could make the storylines for this series more perfect? Oh right...this series happening at Dodger Stadium? With the primary tenants of the facility in Southern California playing in...Texas of all places? Better believe it because it is happening. If this comes as a surprise, clearly you haven’t paid attention to the wild quirks and bizarre circumstances 2020 has brought to this planet.
On Monday afternoon, these two American League West rivals will renew hostilities in the first contest of a best-of-five division series at Dodger Stadium. Major League Baseball opted to shift to multiple bubble settings for the remainder of the postseason, and the American League will play at National League parks in California, while the NL will travel to Texas (both AL stadiums) in order to keep any teams from being provided with home field advantage.