The Dodgers just dug themselves a giant hole as the Red Sox secured a 4-2 Game 2 win Wednesday at Fenway Park to take a 2-0 lead in the World Series.
Boston had the second best road record in baseball and will now head to Dodgers Stadium for Games 3 through 5. The Dodgers gave up more home runs, extra-base hits, a better batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage at home in 2018. The Red Sox's pitching staff posted almost identical numbers on the road as at home.
Los Angeles is in a really bad position heading into Game 3.
David Price got the win for Boston in Game 2 after he fired six innings of two-run ball. This is just the second playoff start he has won in his career, but it is also his second in a row.
This is just downright weird at this point. The Red Sox are hitting ridiculously well with two outs in the postseason and there is more than one stat to back that up. Take Game 2 on Wednesday. The Red Sox scored their first run of the game in the second inning with two outs when Ian Kinsler drove in Xander Bogaerts with a double. Then, in the fifth inning, the Red Sox had five batters reach base in a row and scored three runs to take a 4-2 lead after Hyun-Jin Ryu retired the first two batters of the inning.
Boston has now scored 36 of its 68 runs this postseason with two outs. That's 53 percent. According to The Athletic, MLB teams scored 37 percent of their runs with two outs this season. The Red Sox are now batting .410 (16 for 39) with runners in scoring position and two outs this postseason. This is getting slightly ridiculous.
The tightest of zones
Yes, the game is supposed to get harder rather than easier at the highest level in baseball, but this is getting borderline crazy. Tim Timmons and Kerwin Danley have been behind the plate in Games 1 and 2 of the World Series and the game has crawled because of it.
Of course, pitchers in this series could have walked less batters and thrown more strikes, but there have been so many borderline calls in this series that have gone for balls and resulted in free bases that it's getting annoying. Yes, pitchers could come in a little bit more, but the zones have been way too tight through two games.