ARLINGTON, Texas — Managing the Los Angeles Dodgers, especially on nights when Clayton Kershaw is pitching, is a parlor game not for the thin-skinned. You roll the dice, you move your pieces, and you understand the game comes with only one rule: you must win. There is no second place.
Dave Roberts has been trying to crack this game for five years. This is all you need to know about its difficulty: he became the first manager to be booed this year, and it happened in a 4-2 Los Angeles win over Tampa Bay Sunday in World Series Game 5 in which every move he made worked well.