The World Series kicked off last night and for the first four innings or so it looked like it would be a pitcher’s duel between the Dodgers veteran Clayton Kershaw and the hard-throwing youngster from the Rays, Tyler Glasnow. Then the Dodgers scored a bunch of runs and won 8-3.
It’s not the way anyone outside of Los Angeles wanted things to go, but the Rays can be heartened by the fact that their Tampa Bay sports siblings suffered the same start to their championship run and then pulled off the series victory. After all, the Lightning lost Game One to a team from Dallas while the Rays lost Game One to a team in Dallas (well Arlington).