One team is in the World Series for the first time since 1993. The other is here for the fifth time in the last 10 years.
One is playing with an entire country behind it. The other has plenty of detractors for spending more than any other team in the league, its manager joking that they are four wins away from “ruining baseball.”
The roads they took to arrive at the Fall Classic looked different, but beginning Friday night at Rogers Centre, the Dodgers’ star-studded cast will try to claim a second straight championship, this one over a gritty Blue Jays squad. noti.group’s Greg Joyce breaks down the matchup:
At the plate
Getting on base: No team got on base at a higher clip than the Blue Jays during the regular season (.333) — though the Dodgers were not far behind (.327) — doing so with the highest batting average at .265. They also struck out less often than every other team (17.8 percent), with their ability to put the ball in play their greatest strength.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
