If you would’ve predicted before the season started that the Dodgers and Red Sox would be the two teams playing for it all in the World Series, it wouldn't have been shocking to anybody. The Dodgers had just been there in 2017 with largely the same team and the Red Sox looked like a force when they added J.D. Martinez to their lineup in the winter.
Fast forward to the middle of the season and as Boston was bashing their way to 90 wins in mid-August, the Dodgers had fought through many obstacles just to be in the hunt for the postseason.