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Mookie Betts Leads the Dodgers’ Stars With a Masterful Performance - The New York Times

Mookie Betts Leads the Dodgers’ Stars With a Masterful Performance - The New York Times

Mookie Betts Leads the Dodgers’ Stars With a Masterful Performance - The New York Times
Oct 21, 2020 1 min, 36 secs

The Dodgers overwhelmed the Rays in Game 1, with Betts showing off the consistent excellence that led Los Angeles to sign him to a 12-year contract?

“I knew it was going to be tough for me to repeat that or get better,” Betts said on Tuesday, after a virtuoso performance for the Los Angeles Dodgers in an 8-3 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays in Game 1 of the World Series.

The Dodgers acquired Betts from the Boston Red Sox in a February trade, hoping he would lift them to their first championship since 1988.

Betts had led the Red Sox to a title against the Dodgers in 2018, when he also won the M.V.P.

On Tuesday, Betts became the first player in World Series history with a home run, two runs scored and two stolen bases in the same game.

“He does some special things like hit homers and take the extra base and things like that,” said pitcher Clayton Kershaw, who glided through six efficient innings for the win in Game 1.

On Tuesday, Betts showed the kind of daring base running too often missing in the modern, risk-averse game.

“I take pride in stealing bases,” Betts said, “and once I get on the basepaths, I’m just trying to touch home.

Betts homered off Kershaw in their last World Series game, the 2018 clincher at Dodger Stadium.

That Dodgers team did not have Betts, did not have the best versions of Kershaw and Cody Bellinger, and did not have much of a chance.

In this World Series, the Dodgers have all the star power.

Bellinger was a platoon player in the 2018 World Series, starting only two of five games.

“No, you can’t think like that,” Kershaw said on Monday, when asked if the team had wanted another chance at the Astros.

That team lost to the New York Giants in a World Series sweep, so the Dodgers are already a step ahead

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