Why The Los Angeles Dodgers Will Beat the Boston Red Sox in the 2018 World Series

October 23, 2018April 20, 2022 Joe Ditzel

Several recent round-ups of sports pundits indicate the majority believe Boston will beat Los Angeles in the 2018 World Series. Never have so many been so wrong. Here are three reasons LaLaLand will win it all.

More Experience

The Dodgers have been in existence since 1883, while the Red Sox had a much later start in 1901. Experience counts in baseball and the Dodgers have a solid 18-year head start. It’s going to be hard for the Red Sox to overcome that kind of momentum, no matter how many times they fruitlessly say the official chant:

Let’s go Red Sox
Let’s go Red Sox
What did the fox say?
Ring a ding ding ding ding dingerding

Lefty Louie

The Red Sox aren’t so good against left-handed pitchers. During the 2018 season, they were able to get on base only 5 percent of the time against leftys. This is bad news for them because the Dodgers have tons of left-handed pitchers. When noted baseball futurologist C. N. Dafuture said in 1998 that the Dodgers would play Boston in the World Series in 2018, the team ramped up their development of lefties. The height of this project was the opening of the famed “Lefty Farm” in the Dominican Republic, where promising young lefties were coached from the age of 6 just to beat the Red Sox in this series.

Air Pollution

Rafael Devers of the Red Sox hit a home run at Minute Maid Park to end the Astros’ 2018 season, pulling in three runs for a 4-1 win. The problem is he can’t possibly do it at Dodger Stadium. The air pollution so thick in LA, it slows down most home-run balls, turning them into triples, doubles or singles. The Dodgers, however, have a specialized lining in their lungs from years of play in polluted air, a lining doctors say gives them a 35 percent speed advantage. A classic baseball saying is “When your shot won’t go over the wall, run like your hear your momma’s call.” The Dodgers will win every home game based on running–pure speed combined with super-human lung capacity.