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LA Pays Respect to Boston, Gives Red Sox 2 Souvenirs from Dodgers Stadium

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The Red Sox have received congratulations from many different sources since winning the World Series on Sunday. These include everyone from the Patriots’ Tom Brady and Bill Belichick to the WWE creating a custom championship belt for the team.

But Boston also received unexpected congratulatory wishes Wednesday from the team it defeated: the Los Angeles Dodgers.

The Dodgers took out a full-page ad in Wednesday’s Boston Globe in which they congratulated the Red Sox:

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But LA didn’t stop there. The team also sent two souvenirs from Dodger Stadium, where the Red Sox clinched the series.

The Globe reported that the Dodgers dug up home plate and the pitching rubber from Game 5. It then authenticated both items and sent them to personnel in the Red Sox front office.

“This was a great World Series and the Red Sox are a class organization,” Lon Rosen, Dodgers executive vice president and chief marketing officer, told The Globe. “We have friends over there with (Red Sox president) Sam Kennedy and (chairman) Tom Werner, so we wanted to give them something of value as a token of respect and professional admiration.”

LA also sent baseballs and dirt from Dodger Stadium to Boston, which won its ninth World Series in franchise history.

The Dodgers lost their second World Series in as many years, as they fell to the Houston Astros in 2017. The organization also took out a full-page ad in the Houston Chronicle to congratulate the Astros after that defeat.

“That’s never the plan, and we prefer not to have to (take out an ad),” Rosen said. “But we did it because we think it was a well-played World Series. We have a friendly business rivalry (with the Red Sox) on and off the field. It’s a competition, but at the end of the day, we do feel it warrants something of this nature.”

Do you think the Red Sox would have done the same for the Dodgers had they lost the World Series?

It’s also become a tradition in some sports for the mayors of competing cities in title games to place friendly bets on the outcome.

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But that didn’t happen between Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti this year because Walsh is too superstitious.

He said he stopped making sports bets because he lost so often after taking office in 2014.

“We did have a conversation yesterday,” Walsh said of Garcetti. “He wanted to bet something, and I’m pretty superstitious. I stopped betting after the first three bets when I became mayor.”

Walsh said he lost bets on games involving the Patriots, the Bruins and Boston College. When the Patriots made it to the Super Bowl in 2015, he didn’t make a bet, and the team won.

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Ross Kelly has been a sportswriter since 2009.
Ross Kelly has been a sportswriter since 2009 and previously worked for ESPN, CBS and STATS Inc. A native of Louisiana, Ross now resides in Houston.
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