LOS ANGELES — Houston Astros starter Dallas Keuchel, who grew up in sweltering Oklahoma summers, said this week that the prospect of pitching in extreme heat did not faze him, that he liked breaking a good sweat. He laughed off the suggestion that he might want to shave his bushy beard to stay cool.
Keuchel had cause to reconsider on Tuesday night when the scorching 103-degree temperature — a record for a World Series game — greeted the start of Game 1 and thinned the usually thick marine air that rolls into Chavez Ravine in the evening.