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Fans cheer as Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto (18) leaves the game during the seventh inning in Game 2 of the baseball World Series against the New York Yankees, Saturday, Oct las atlantis casino app. 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
The Los Angeles Dodgers are two wins away from a World Series championship. The Dodgers hung on to beat the New York Yankees in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday night (LA 4, NY 2), and now have a 2-0 series lead. They were one out away from being down 1-0 in the series Friday night. Then Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off grand slam. Now the Dodgers have a 2-0 series lead, albeit with an injured Shohei Ohtani. Game 3 is Monday at Yankee Stadium.
After his 80th pitch, in the sixth inning, Yamamoto spun off the mound, clenched his fists and roared. He had just snuck a splitter past the bat of Aaron Judge for an inning-ending strikeout. Judge strode back to the Yankees dugout, shaking his head.
So the pressure’s on the boys from the Bronx. And they’ll send Carlos Rodón to the bump hoping/expecting that he’ll build on the adjustments he’s made in this postseason to not let the excitement get the best of him.
Here’s what the Yankees are trying to avoid in Game 2 on Saturday night at Dodger Stadium: Teams that have lost the first two games on the road in all 2-3-2 series are 11-45 in those series. In the World Series, specifically, they are 7-27.
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Long encumbered by a mouthful of metal, Zachary Ruderman was told by his parents Friday that he could leave his fifth-grade class early because he had an orthodontist appointment to get his braces removed. The shaggy-haired 10-year-old figured he’d be out of the chair in time to watch Game 1 of the World Series on TV.
With one out in the bottom of the fourth, Yankees manager Aaron Boone is making a pitching change. Jake Cousins has taken over for Carlos Rodón after Rodón surrendered six hits and four runs over 3.1 innings of work.
Long encumbered by a mouthful of metal, Zachary Ruderman was told by his parents Friday that he could leave his fifth-grade class early because he had an orthodontist appointment to get his braces removed. The shaggy-haired 10-year-old figured he’d be out of the chair in time to watch Game 1 of the World Series on TV.
With one out in the bottom of the fourth, Yankees manager Aaron Boone is making a pitching change. Jake Cousins has taken over for Carlos Rodón after Rodón surrendered six hits and four runs over 3.1 innings of work.
Who is hot and who is not?Dodgers: Freeman continues his dominant World Series run, hitting a homer in all three games against the Yankees. The star first baseman has now hit a homer in five consecutive games in the Fall Classic. If the Dodgers wrap it up, Freeman will likely be taking home his first World Series MVP trophy.
A Yankees team has not been swept in the World Series since 1976, against the Big Red Machine. But this World Series could be over in a New York minute if the Yankees don’t come to life Tuesday night.
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10:56 p.m. — We have some controversy in Game 1. Kopech retired Austin Wells and Alex Verdugo, but with two outs, Torres lifts a pitch to the left field wall. A fan reaches over and catches the ball, making it a double instead of a go-ahead home run.
It could be that the full story of Game 1 will not be written until we know the full effect Morton’s injury has on the Braves’ pitching performance the rest of the way, and whether this dangerous Astros club bounces back in this best-of-seven the way it did against Boston in the ALCS. But we know for sure that an Atlanta team already accustomed to overcoming some huge hits delivered some huge hits in Game 1.
Kiké Hernández said something similar, telling MLB Network that he first thought he’d be the one to win the game, then he thought Shohei Ohtani would be the one do it, but Hernández said there ultimately wasn’t a better ending than Freeman playing the hero. And it bodes well for the Dodgers that Freeman ran well around the bases, not only on the home run — when he probably could have floated — but also on a first-inning triple that provided the first hint that Freeman might be back to his old self.
10:56 p.m. — We have some controversy in Game 1. Kopech retired Austin Wells and Alex Verdugo, but with two outs, Torres lifts a pitch to the left field wall. A fan reaches over and catches the ball, making it a double instead of a go-ahead home run.
It could be that the full story of Game 1 will not be written until we know the full effect Morton’s injury has on the Braves’ pitching performance the rest of the way, and whether this dangerous Astros club bounces back in this best-of-seven the way it did against Boston in the ALCS. But we know for sure that an Atlanta team already accustomed to overcoming some huge hits delivered some huge hits in Game 1.
Kiké Hernández said something similar, telling MLB Network that he first thought he’d be the one to win the game, then he thought Shohei Ohtani would be the one do it, but Hernández said there ultimately wasn’t a better ending than Freeman playing the hero. And it bodes well for the Dodgers that Freeman ran well around the bases, not only on the home run — when he probably could have floated — but also on a first-inning triple that provided the first hint that Freeman might be back to his old self.