22 on the mound, his Hall of Fame left arm flinging thunderbolts toward the plate and racking up the strikeouts. And they especially love the sight of No. Fans swoon over Turner’s flowing red hair and beard, not to mention his timely homers.
2016 WORLD SERIES GAME 7 GAME TIME TEMPERATURE SERIES
Los Angeles, which hadn’t witnessed a World Series since that 1988 triumph, has fallen in love with these Dodgers over the course of a 104-win season and a quick jaunt through the first two rounds of the postseason to win the National League pennant. Notably, longtime Dodgers fan Ice Cube, a frequent attendee, was nowhere to be seen - or perhaps he had merely melted. Over the course of the game, the video board did the obligatory between-innings rundown of some of the celebrities in attendance: Dustin Hoffman, Magic Johnson, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Bateman, etc. belted out the national anthem, the sweat stain on the back of his suit jacket grew from the approximate shape of Vermont at “Oh say can you see” to that of Idaho by “home of the brave.”
The temperature at first pitch was 103 degrees, easily exceeding the previous high for a World Series game, the 94 degrees in Game 1 in 2001 in Phoenix.Īt least the shade that blanketed the field provided some cover from the swelter, but nearly a quarter of the stadium was still in sunlight at first pitch. “This place,” Turner said, “was the most electric I’ve ever seen it.”īut for any of the 54,253 fans who packed the stately ballpark off Vin Scully Avenue, the game will be recalled for the visceral feeling of being slowly cooked alive for 2 hours 28 minutes - a time of game that, thankfully, made this the fastest World Series game in 25 years. When history regards Game 1 of the 2017 World Series from a distance of many years or decades, it will be recalled for the brilliance of Kershaw, Chris Taylor’s 447-foot homer on the first pitch thrown by Astros left-hander Dallas Keuchel, the unusually quick pace of play that made the game feel like something out of 1988 - the year of the Dodgers’ last championship - and especially for Turner’s two-out, two-strike homer that shook the stadium and put the Dodgers ahead for good. Game 2 is Wednesday, with Dodgers left-hander Rich Hill facing Astros ace Justin Verlander, and with temperatures expected once again to approach or climb into triple digits. With Kershaw pitching brilliantly over seven overpowering innings and third baseman Justin Turner delivering the go-ahead runs with a two-run homer in the sixth, the Dodgers beat the Astros, 3-1, in the hottest World Series game in history.
He was still the coolest man in the joint, only now he owned a victory in the World Series. He was, in demeanor and look, if not internal temperature, the coolest man in Southern California.Ī little more than three hours later, Kershaw emerged from that dugout again at the end of Game 1 of the World Series, a huge smile across his face, his immense legacy now rounded out with a dominant performance against the Houston Astros on the only major stage in baseball that he had never before graced.
Kershaw wore a heavy Dodgers warmup jacket. Clayton Kershaw strolled past the stands along the third base line, where sweltering fans in T-shirts and flip-flops rose to cheer their hero as he made his way to the outfield for his pregame stretching. Tuesday, a lone figure in blue emerged from the Los Angeles Dodgers' dugout and stepped into the infernal heat and late-day sun of Dodger Stadium.
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