Dave Stewart talks about Tommy Lasorda, Yu Darvish and more ahead of Friday’s Game 1 of the World Series
Tommy Lasorda was an acquired taste I was unable to acquire as a young baseball reporter. Too much “us versus them” Dodgers schtick. Too much profanity even for a baseball scribe, although the creativity and theatrical touches weren’t devoid of charm.
The World Series that begins Friday in Los Angeles is the first between the Yankees and Dodgers since Lasorda’s team won the 1981 Fall Classic by rebounding from two losses in the Bronx to win the next four games. Dave Stewart, far right, keeps a close eye on the action at Blue Jays Spring Training camp in Dunedin, Florida in 1999. Stewart said if the Padres had advanced to this year’s World Series, he would have attended the games in San Diego.
Like his fellow Padres fans, it wasn’t easy for Stewart to see the Padres lose Games 4 and 5 of the recent National League Division Series without scoring a single run.Stewart enjoyed watching Yu Darvish, the 38-year-old master of spin who limited L.A. to three runs across 13 2/3 combined innings — a performance that none of the other starting pitchers have come close to matching against L.A.
“They called us ‘Canned Heat’,” he said, mentioning fellow hard throwers Steve Howe, Terry Forster, Alejandro Pena and Tom Niedenfuer.The labor stoppage during the ‘81 postseason led MLB to add a “divisional” round ahead of the LCS, foreshadowing the format adapted in 1995.
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