The Dodgers have little history in Fenway. Manny Machado has a lot.

BOSTON – When the Fenway Park crowd takes a first look at the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night at the start of the 2018 World Series, a host of unknown faces will come. Third baseman Justin Turner, their leader, has played two games here, two more than starting pitcher Clayton Kershaw or one of the Dodgers, who will have to get up close with the huge outer walls. .

But a Dodgers player does not need an introduction.

Manny Machado, the short-haul, has a long and eventful history in Fenway, having spent most of the last seven seasons as a regular visitor with the Baltimore Orioles.

If a national audience has just been introduced into the national league championship series, Machado stands out – a package of brilliance, laziness and brilliance – the crowd here has already seen his number.

Machado did ignominy in Boston last season when his last defeat caught the leg of second baseman, Dustin Pedroia, whose left knee is no longer the same since. This caused the Red Sox to throw twice behind Machado, who, a month later, walked quietly to 29.8 seconds around the bases after hitting a home run.

The Red Sox have not forgotten these episodes now that Machado is with the Dodgers, but they said it was not the time or place where bad will could surface.

"I have a lot of respect for him as a player. I think it's a little too much, but you know, it's a guy who's what he is, "said reliever Matt Barnes, who threw a fastball behind Machado's head the night after Eliminated Pedroia. "It certainly dragged on a bit for one reason or another, but if you do something stupid in a game that counts so much and a series that says as much, and it costs you a game and it costs you a series, then you look like crazy. "

When asked what he thought of Machado's antics against Milwaukee, Rick Porcello, potentially the starter from Boston for the fourth game, said he preferred to watch his teammates.

"Our guys are doing a lot of good work to play the game the right way," he said. "I prefer to watch that."

Pedroia, who said during the Machado slide last year that the game had not caused his injury, wondered Monday whether that contributed to his long absence.

"It did not help, I'll tell you," he said.

Machado was not in the mood to apologize – or even really discuss – actions that put him under the spotlight against the Brewers: the losses to second base, the deliberate overthrow of first baseman Jesus Aguilar, the lack of ground grabs his crotch in response to boos after beating a decay. The episode with Aguilar earned Machado a fine of $ 10,000.

When asked if it bothered him that some – including the Brewers star, Christian Yelich – call him a dirty player, Machado, who will be a free agent this off season, shrugged.

"I play hard for my ball club," he said. "Whatever my uniform, I will bleed and die. I jostle, I go down the line. I do everything I can to win baseball games. These are the only things we can control as baseball players. "

Machado revealed on Monday that he had been asked what he thought he was playing properly.

"Everyone has their own opinion on everything," he said. "However, you play, you play. Everyone has their own personality in the game. Not everyone can be a robot. I know M.L.B. try to make all of us robots, but we will just play and play our game. "

Any controversy that Machado suffered does not seem to have affected his game. He scored three home runs and scored nine points in the playoffs. His knockout, on a 3-2 pitch that preceded a Cody Bellinger circuit, was a key part of the match 7 win in Milwaukee on Saturday night.

He also played very well at Fenway Park, scoring .278 with eight home runs and 32 R.B.I, his best result as a visitor. He also hit Chris Sale and David Price – the Red Sox starters at Games 1 and 2 – with a career average of 300 and six homers in 60 attempts.

There will be other items to watch on Monday.

The Dodgers will use Matt Kemp as the designated hitter; Austin Barnes should stay behind the board to neutralize the Red Sox's run; and Sandy Leon, although he's a left-handed batter, will be back behind the marble with Dirty on the mound.

And of course, there's Dave Roberts, the Dodgers' manager, coming back to the site of his most famous moment as a player. His second base flight for the Red Sox in the ninth inning of the fourth game of 2004 A.L.C.S. caused the return of a three-game deficit without defeat against the Yankees, which allowed Boston to win its first world series victory in 86 years.

"Now he comes here and he earns a lot of money by signing autographs," said Alex Cora, manager of the Red Sox, laughing at his former Dodger teammate. "I know he's putting" the biggest stolen base in the game's history. "He earns a lot of money in an hour."

When Roberts, who remains a darling figure in Boston, aligns himself to line up along the base line of the third goal before the first match, he is well saluted.

But not for the other Dodgers who in these regions do not need to be introduced.