WORLD SERIES: Red Sox head to LA with 2-0 lead over Dodgers

BOSTON — TWO DOWN, TWO TO GO. The Boston Red Sox are heading to Los Angeles after taking a 2-0 lead over the Dodgers in the 2018 World Series.

Game 3 is Friday in Los Angeles. The Dodgers would need a win to avoid an 0-3 deficit that no World Series team has ever recovered from.

Los Angeles, who hadn't started a game this year in a temperature below 58, faced a 53-degree chill at the beginning of the opener. The Dodgers lost 8-4. It was just 46 in the first inning for Game 2, and the Dodgers' bats were cold again — their last 16 hitters retired in order.

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Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt was annoyed at the conditions experienced by his relievers in a bullpen just in front of the right-field bleachers.

"Brutal. Pretty brutal," he told Sports Illustrated. "What I don't understand is why baseball allows it. You've got the rubber right there and people literally standing over you."

Fenway's frenzied fans benefit the Red Sox, a big league-best 57-24 at home during the regular season and 8-1 in the World Series since 2004.

"They live baseball 24 hours, seven days a week," said Boston manager Alex Cora, who played for the Dodgers from 1998-04 and for the Red Sox from 2005-08.

Cora confirmed during his post-game press conference that Rick Porcello will start for the Sox for Game 3.

The Boston 25 News team traveled to Los Angeles Thursday just hours after the big Game 2 win.

Now, we must patiently wait until Friday to see the Red Sox do more damage.

The Red Sox have won 14 of their last 16 World Series games, dating to a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals in 2004.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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