BOSTON — Many Dodgers fans will tell you that Game 1 of this World Series provided another entry onto the list of history’s great counterfactuals.
What if Germany had won World War II?
What if Oswald’s bullet had missed?
What if Dave Roberts hadn’t yanked Pedro Baez with two outs in the bottom of the seventh?
Baez, who had entered the inning with no outs and a man on second, had looked dominant, striking out Mitch Moreland and Xander Bogaerts with a pair of high, 97-mph fastballs, with an intentional walk to J.D. Martinez in between.