How the Dodgers and Rays match up position by position in the World Series
The Los Angeles Dodgers had the best regular-season record in baseball at 43-17 and are 9-3 in the postseason after sweeping the Milwaukee Brewers in the wild card round and San Diego Padres in the National League Division Series before needing seven games to defeat the Atlanta Braves in the NL Championship Series.
The Tampa Bay Rays had the best regular-season record in the American League at 40-20 and are 9-5 in the postseason after sweeping the Toronto Blue Jays, dispatching the New York Yankees in a five-game ALDS and the Houston Astros in a seven-game ALCS.
Total record: The Dodgers are 52-20; the Rays 49-25. They've won 101 of 146 games between them, a .692 winning percentage. Let's see how them compare, position by position:
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WORLD SERIES POSITION-BY-POSITION MATCHUPS
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STARTING ROTATION
Dodgers: Clayton Kershaw, who has a mediocre 11-12 record and 4.31 ERA in 35 career playoff games, 28 of them starts, will start Game 1, but being
