Dodgers pitcher Joe Kelly got into a heated exchange with Houston's Carlos Correa, prompting the benches to clear in the Dodgers' 5-2 win over the Astros.
The sequence was a reminder that Dodgers weren’t going to let the Astros’ cheating in 2017 slide. It was the team’s first visit to Houston since Game 5 of the 2017 World Series and the clubs’ first meeting since the scandal was uncovered over the offseason and became top storyline in spring training before the novel coronavirus shut down Major League Baseball.
The only banging heard Tuesday came from the music’s overamplified bass thumping through the empty dome. The Crawford Boxes beyond the left-field wall contained fan cutouts. There was a group of people clapping here and there for the Astros below the press box, but the atmosphere was light years from the intensity the event would’ve produced in the world everyone is itching to see again. It was dull.
The last five months’ events didn’t deaden the Dodgers’ hard feelings. The Dodgers arrived in Houston with the Astros’ transgressions on their mind, even if they were located somewhere behind avoiding a virus outbreak on their first road trip and weren’t going to admit it in awkward Zoom calls with the media. On Monday, Joc Pederson posted a photo of the Dodgers getting off the plane on his Instagram Story. The caption? “Bangggg.
“The history obviously is out there,” Pederson said. “Everyone knows what’s at stake and what happened. So, for being no fans and sometimes maybe the energy can be lacking a little bit, I don’t think that will be the case for this series.”
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