The Dodgers did it thrice, can they do it again?

Cit’s not AN the Los Angeles Dodgers

This question cropped after the Dodgers lost, 2- 4, to the Boston Red Sox in Game 2 of the World Series on Wednesday night, a day before the world championship proceeds to Los Angeles in Game 3 to be played Friday (Saturday in Manila).

“Historically, a good

That one-game-at-a-time refrain sounds nice, but it belies the historically steep odds that the Dodgers face at 0-2.

MLB record show that 43 of the ing each of the past 10. - taken into consideration, the odds get World Series champions, including each In fact, the last time a team lost

on the road and came back to win was 1981, when the Dodgers them- followed by the 1965 squad already carrying the Hollywood colors and that 1981 sluggers.

The New York Yankees matched the three times the

Dodgers bounced back from

They did it in 1978, 1958 and 1956.

Outside of the Yankees and the Dodgers, only one other team, the Pittsburgh Pirates, were able to do the trick in 1971.

Here are how the teams in World Series history returned home down 0-2 and still

two games at Dodger Stadium, the Yankees won four in a row to claim the title, including a 10-inning, 4-3 win in Game

went on to outscore the Dodgers 19-4 in

After getting shellacked by the Baltimore Orioles, 11-3, in Game 2, Roberto Clemente and company returned home, won three in a row and slipped past the Orioles in Game 7 to win the series. This was the Sandy Koufax series. The Dodgers against the Twins but fought back to

spinning shutouts in both Games 5 and 7 to clinch it for Los Angeles.

New York not only fell into an 0-2 hole against the Mil-

found itself trailing 3-1 after dropping Game 4. But the Yankees, whose lineup featured Yogi Berra and Mickey

The Yankees lost the against the Brooklyn Dodgers but won three games were all shutouts, including

Same teams, different story. This time it was the Brooklyn