The Fall Classic Will Feel More Like a Summer Scorcher
Temperatures around 100 degrees are expected when the Astros and Dodgers open the World Series Tuesday evening
By Jonathan Lloyd ••
What to Know
Tuesday's Game 1 is scheduled for 5:09 p.m.
The warmest World Series game on record was 94 degrees in October 2001 when Arizona hosted the Yankees
Tuesday's high is expected to top out at 102 before dropping to a scorching 100 by game-time
The first game of the World Series is expected to bring the heat.
Temperatures will be sizzling around game-time at 5:09 p.m. PT Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, when Los Angeles and the Houston Astros will play Game 1 of the World Series. Tuesday's high is expected to top out at 102, but temperatures will slide back into the 90s by early evening.
The hottest World Series game on record is Game 1 of the 2001 World Series between the Arizona Diamondbacks and New York Yankees in Phoenix on Oct. 27, 2001. The first-pitch temperature for that showdown in the desert was 94 degrees. Major League Baseball ordered the roof at then-Bank One Ballpark to be open.
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The Dodgers are back in the World Series for the first time since winning it all in 1988, when the A's and LA enjoyed relatively mild temperatures. The average high temperature in Los Angeles this time of year is 77.
Both teams scheduled workouts at Dodger Stadium Monday on the eve of Game 1. Excessive heat warnings go into effect to start the week in Los Angeles, where some areas will be under red flag warnings, signaling high fire danger due to heat, dry conditions and strong wind gusts. The warning will be in effect through Wednesday.
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The game-time temperature for Game 2 on Wednesday is expected to be in the high-90s.
"The first couple of (NLCS) games here against the Cubs were really hot," Dodgers utility man Charlie Culberson told MLB.com. "I'm from Georgia, I'm from the South. We're used to it. We've played in it. I don't think it's really going to affect us, it's the World Series, it doesn't matter. We'll be ready."
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Swimmer Janet Evans captured three gold medals, Magic Johnson and the Lakers won another NBA title and President Reagan toured Red Square in Moscow, just few of the major events that happened in 1988 -- the last time the Dodgers were in the World Series.
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Tight end Clint Didier is seen here hauling in one of Washington's many touchdowns during Super Bowl XXII against the Denver Broncos at Jack Murphy Stadium on January 31, 1988 in San Diego, California. The Redskins won 42-10. (Photo by George Rose/Getty Images)
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Franck Piccard of France talks on his 1980s-era mobile phone after the men's Super G Slalom event at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games in Calgary, Canada. Credit: Allsport UK /Allsport
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Heavyweight champ Mike Tyson, seen here in a 1997 bout with Evander Holyfield, married actress Robin Givens. They divorced in 1989.
Nominated by President Ronald Reagan a year earlier, Justice Kennedy joined the Supreme Court in 1988. (Photo taken in 2003)
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In a major change for a ballpark steeped in tradition, Chicago granted the Cubs the right to install lights at historic Wrigley Field.
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The NFL's Cardinals officially move to Phoenix from St. Louis, part of a chain of events that would play out over the ensuing three decades and end with the Rams moving from St. Louis back to Los Angeles for the start of the 2016 season.
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In a memorable matchup between two Big 8 Conference teams, Danny Manning powered Kansas past Oklahoma, 83-79. It marked the last time two schools from the same conference met in a men's hoops final. (Photo taken in 1986).
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Smoking on domestic flights with a duration of two hours or less is banned. The rule extended to all flights by the late-1990s. (Photo taken in 2006)
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Jockey Gary Stevens rode filly Winning Colors to victory at the Kentucky Derby.
Wayne Gretzky, pictured here in 1988 against the Kings, was part of a powerful Oilers team that defeated the Boston Bruins 4-0 to win the Stanley Cup. More on Gretzky's eventful 1988 later.
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In this handout from the White House, U.S. President Ronald Reagan shakes hands with a boy as Mikhail Gorbachev (R) looks on during a tour of Red Square May 31, 1988 in Moscow, Soviet Union. (Photo by Pete Souza/White House via Getty Images)
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Magic Johnson, currently a member of the Dodgers' front office, and the Lakers beat the up-and-coming Detroit Pistons in a seven-game finals thriller, fulfilling a prediction of a repeat championship made a year earlier by coach Pat Riley. (Photo taken in 1987)
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Action film "Die Hard," starring actor Bruce Willis, is released in the United States. Photo taken in 2001.
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Wayne Gretzky was traded to the Los Angeles Kings, bringing the biggest name in hockey to Southern California in a move that shocked the NHL and left Edmonton fans in disbelief. Gretzky, pictured here in 1989, was shipped to LA from the Oilers, who received center Jimmy Carson, first-round draft choice Martin Gelinas, first-round picks in 1989, 1991 and 1993, and $15 million.
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Edwin Moses was one of the bright stars from the United States who competed in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Moses is seen here in the 400 meter hurdles.
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In a story of courage and determination that came to define the 1988 Summer Olympics, U.S. diver Greg Louganis struck his head on a diving board in a dive that almost ended his career. Instead, he won Olympic gold in springboard diving a day later, adding to his medal haul.
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Janet Evans, the high school teenager from Southern California, won three individual gold medal at the Seoul Olympics.
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Canada's Ben Johnson appeared to have clinched the men's 100m dash over U.S. rival Carl Lewis, but he was later stripped of the medal after a failed drug test.
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The iconic Florence Griffith-Joyner prepares for a race during the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. With a mix of style and speed, Flo Jo took home three gold medals and one silver.
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NASA resumes Space Shuttle flights post-Challenger disaster with the launch of Discovery. This photo of Discovery was taken in 1999.
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Steffi Graf was just 18 when she started her unprecedented run of tournament wins. Not only did the German superstar win the calendar-year Grand Slam, she became the only player to win an Olympic medal in the same year, accomplishing a Golden Slam. Here, Graf (left) is pictured with Martina Navratilova in July 1988 at Wimbledon.
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Pitcher and World Series MVP Orel Hershiser and manager Tommy Lasorda hold up the World Series trophy in front of a crowd in downtown Los Angeles. LA defeated Oakland, 4-1.
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Then-Vice President George H.W. Bush defeated Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential election. Bush is pictured here in October 2002.
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Pitcher Orel Hersheiser wins the NL Cy Young Award.
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McLaren Honda driver Ayrton Senna, one of the sport's greatest drivers, won the 1988 Formula 1 driver's championship. Senna would go on to win two more titles before he was killed in a 1994 crash at the San Marino Grand Prix.
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Kirk Gibson is named the National League MPV.
The first B-2 Spirit stealth bomber prototype is revealed in Palmdale (Undated photo).
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"Rainman," starring Tom Cruise and Dustin Hoffman, premieres in New York.
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Pan Am Flight 103 is bombed in a mid-air terror attack that killed 259 people onboard and 11 victims on the ground. Pictured, a wreath remembering the victims of Pan Am Flight 103 is placed by the memorial at Arlington National Cemetery as family members gather December 21, 2005.
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The year ended with one of the most bizarre games in NFL history. This was the view from ground level when the Philadelphia Eagles played the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field in Chicago, Illinois. The Bears won the game, 20-12, in a dense fog that shrouded the field from view.
Spending summers in Houston and Los Angeles, the players are used to the heat, but research suggests extreme heat can influence how far a baseball travels off the bat. Dr. Alan Nathan, professor emeritus of physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, conducted a study that shows a baseball travels 3.3 addition feet for every 10 degrees of added temperatures.
For example, the average high temperature in Los Angeles for late October is about 77 degrees. On a 100-degree day, a ball that would usually be a warning track fly-out might carrying into the outfield stands for a home run.
As for the coldest World Series on record, that distinction goes to the 1997 series when the Florida Marlins visited Cleveland. At first pitch for Game 4, the temperature was 38 degrees. There were snow flurries during the game and ice patches formed on the infield in one of the more bizarre World Series sights.
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Former Dodger pitcher Orel Hershiser, seen here with Cleveland Indians, looks on during the fourth game of the World Series against the Florida Marlins at Jacobs Field in Cleveland, Ohio. The game was the coldest on record during the World Series.
World Series rosters will be announced Tuesday morning.
Manager Dave Roberts said the Dodgers will keep the same pitching rotation as they did in the NLCS with left-hander Rich Hill starting Game 2 and right-hander Yu Darvish Game 3 following the previously announced Game 1 starter, left-hander Clayton Kershaw.
Left-hander Dallas Keuchel will start Game 1 for Houston and right- hander Justin Verlander Game 2, manager A.J. Hinch said Saturday following the 4-0 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 7 of the American League Championship Series.
