BOSTON — When the Fenway Park crowd gets its first glance at the Los Angeles Dodgers on Tuesday night at the start of the 2018 World Series, there will be a host of unfamiliar faces. Third baseman Justin Turner, their leader, has played in two games here — which is two more than starting pitcher, Clayton Kershaw, or any of the Dodgers outfielders, who will have to acquaint themselves on the fly with the idiosyncratic outfield walls.

But one Dodgers player does not need an introduction.

Manny Machado, the shortstop-for-hire, has a history at Fenway that is lengthy and checkered, having spent much of the last seven seasons as a regular visitor here with the Baltimore Orioles.

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If a national audience has just been introduced in the National League Championship Series to the full Machado — a package of churlishness, indolence and brilliance — the crowd here has seen his act before.

Machado gained ignominy in Boston last season when his late, spikes-up slide caught the leg of second baseman Dustin Pedroia, whose left knee has not been the same since. That led the Red Sox to twice throw behind Machado, who a month later took a leisurely 29.8-second stroll around the bases after hitting a home run.