Tampa Bay Rays (40-20, 8-5) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (43-17, 9-3)
RHP Tyler Glasnow (2-1, 4.66) vs. LHP Clayton Kershaw (2-1, 3.22)
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 | 7:11 p.m. CT | Globe Life Field | Arlington, TX
World Series – Game 1
TV: FOX | Radio: AM 570 (Eng.); 1020 AM (Span.), ESPN Radio, AM 1540 (Kor.)
The Rays and Dodgers meet after both had the best record in their respective leagues during the 2020 shortened regular season.
Kershaw enters the night with a 5.40 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 26 2/3 innings this postseason. He is seven
strikeouts shy of becoming the second player in MLB history with 200 career postseason strikeouts.
Glasnow has a 4.66 ERA and 25 strikeouts in 19 1/3 innings during the current playoffs. His 14.29 K/9 led all major league pitchers with at least 50 innings during the regular season.
The MMO team made their World Series predictions.
Rays Lineup
- Yandy Diaz – 1B
- Brandon Lowe – 2B
- Randy Arozarena – DH
- Hunter Renfroe – RF
- Manuel Margot – LF
- Joey Wendle – 3B
- Willy Adames – SS
- Kevin Kiermaier – CF
- Mike Zunino – C
Dodgers Lineup
- Mookie Betts – RF
- Corey Seager – SS
- Justin Turner – 3B
- Max Muncy – 1B
- Will Smith – DH
- Cody Bellinger – CF
- Chris Taylor – 2B
- Joc Pederson – LF
- Austin Barnes – C
Game Notes
The winner of the first game of the World Series has gone on to win the Fall Classic 72 times (62.6%). That has been the case in 14 of the last 17 and 19 of the last 22 World Series beginning in 1997.
For the fifth time since Major League Baseball began the six-division format in 1994, the Fall Classic is featuring teams from the NL West and the AL East.
According to each Club’s LCS rosters, the teams will combine for 13 foreign-born players. The 13 players hail from the Dominican Republic (four – Willy Adames, Pedro Báez, Diego Castillo, Manuel Margot); Puerto Rico (three – Kiké Hernández, Michael Perez, Edwin Ríos); Cuba (two – Randy Arozarena, Yandy Díaz); Mexico (two
– Victor González, Julio Urías); Curaçao (one – Kenley Jansen); and South Korea (one – Ji-Man Choi).
