BOSTON -- The Red Sox and Dodgers brought star-studded teams into a highly-anticipated showdown in the 2018 World Series. The Red Sox won the battle in five games while the Dodgers won two titles in the years since then. The teams are separated by just five wins this season as they began a three-game series at Fenway Park on Friday.

Fenway Park concession and restaurant workers went on strike​ Friday just as the Boston Red Sox opened a series against the Dodgers.

BOSTON — Saturday marks the second day of the labor strike involving concession workers at Boston’s Fenway Park. About 1,000 Aramark service workers represented by Unite Here Local 26 walked off the job and hit the picket line on Friday afternoon, demanding better wages and protection from automation technologies like self-checkouts.