The nine-month grind of a baseball season doesn't lend itself to small sample sizes, yet no chapter of the calendar invites a microscopic view of the game like the World Series. Whatever Dodgers shortstop Manny Machado does in this series—anything between winning the World Series or losing it—he'll be scrutinized like no other. It's safe to say Machado's bizarre kicking incident with Brewers first baseman Jesús Aguilar in the NLCS further enhanced Machado's profile as he and the Dodgers prepare for the World Series to begin in Fenway Park on Tuesday.