Game One
Los Angeles hosted game one of this heavily anticipated World Series in what will go down as one of the best games in World Series history.
Jack Flaherty gave the Dodgers a great outing with five and a third innings of two-run ball. Gerrit Cole also gave the Yankees a great start with six dominant innings with just one run given up.
The Dodgers took the lead in the bottom of the fifth with a sacrifice fly off the bat of Will Smith, scoring Kike Hernandez. The Yankees didn’t take long to answer as they took the lead with a two-run home run from Giancarlo Stanton, making the score 2-1.
The score stayed still until the bottom of the eighth as Mookie Betts hit a sacrifice fly to tie the ballgame.
The game stayed tied until extra innings when Anthony Volpe scored Anthony Rizzo on a fielder’s choice, leaving the score at 3-2 going into the bottom of the tenth. Freddie Freeman became the hero of the game with a walk-off grand slam to deep right field, giving the Dodgers the first game of the series.
Game Two
Yoshinobu Yamamoto was incredible in his first World Series outing after going six and a third of one-run ball. The only hit he gave up was the solo home run off the bat of Yankee slugger Juan Soto.
The Yankees didn’t see as much success out of their starter as Carlos Rodon went for only three and a third with four runs given up. Three of his four runs given up came from Dodger home runs.
The Dodgers got the scoring started in the second inning with a solo home run off that bat of Tommy Edman. The Yankees quickly came back with a solo homer of their own from Juan Soto in the top of the third.
Los Angeles didn’t take much time to respond as Teoscar Hernandez sent a two-run home run which was followed by a solo shot from the hero of the night before, Freddie Freeman.
The game’s pace started to slow down after the third inning as the only other score in the game came off Giancarlo Stanton’s single that brought in Soto, leaving the rest of the night scoreless and the final score at 4-2.
After two straight wins in Los Angeles, the Dodgers put themselves in a great position to take control of the Series early on.
Game Three
Walker Beuhler continued the trend of productive starts for the Dodgers rotation as he gave them five shutout innings with only two hits and two walks given up. Clarke Schmidt didn’t give the Yankees nearly as good of an outing after being taken out in just the third inning with three runs given up.
In the first inning Freddie Freeman hit a 2-run home run scoring Shohei Ohtani giving him a homerun in every game of the world series. Dodgers take an early 2-0 lead.
Freddie Freeman continued his World Series heroics with a two-run home run to give the Dodgers an early 2-0 lead. Mookie Betts then took the score to 3-0 in the third inning with a single that scored Tommy Edman.
Both lineups were relatively quiet until the sixth inning as Kike Hernandez continued yet another run as “Mr. October” for the Dodgers with a single that scored Gavin Lux, leaving them with a 4-0 lead.
The Yankee bats didn’t go completely silent until the end as Alex Verdugo hit a two-run shot in the ninth inning. However, it was too little and too late for the Yankees lineup to gain any momentum, leaving them in a three-game hole in the series.
Game Four
The Yankees woke up their bats early in their must win game four matchup after taking out the Landon Knack in just four innings of work for the Dodgers. Luis Gil had a very similar outing for the Yankees with a four-inning appearance with four runs given up as well.
The Dodgers start off the game with no one else but Freddie Freeman Hitting a 2-run home run scoring Mookie Betts in the First inning. To give the Dodgers an early 1-0 lead.
Freddie Freeman hit yet another home run to put the Dodgers up early, setting the record of six straight games with a home run in the World Series. Anthony Volpe quickly answered in a big way for the Yankees with a grand slam, giving the Yankees a 5-2 lead.
Will Smith was the first to respond for the Dodgers in the fifth inning with a solo home run that cut their deficit to two runs. Freeman then hit into a fielder’s choice that scored Tommy Edman, leaving the score at 5-4.
Austin Wells quickly stopped the momentum swing in the bottom half of the sixth inning with a solo shot to right field, putting the Yankees up by two runs.
The Yankees took a controlling lead in the eighth inning with a fielder’s choice off the bat of Alex Verdugo, a three-run home run by Gleyber Torres and a single from Aaron Judge scoring Juan Soto. The 11-4 deficit was too much for the Dodgers to fight back as they were handed their first loss of the series.
Game Five
The Yankees started off the fifth game of the series with momentum from the night before as they jumped on Jack Flaherty early. Flaherty only gave the Dodgers one inning of work while Gerrit Cole was stellar with six and two thirds’ innings of work, keeping the talented Dodgers lineup at bay.
Aaron Judge started off the scoring in the first inning with a two-run shot to right field scoring Juan Soto. Jazz Chisholm followed suit with another home run to right in the same inning, making the score 3-0.
Alex Verdugo kept the Yankee momentum going with a single to shallow right field, scoring Anthony Volpe. New York extended their lead to 5-0 with a solo home run off the bat of Giancarlo Stanton.
The Dodgers took advantage of poor defensive mistakes from the Yankees that ended up tying the game at 5-5. Many fans will look back to a crucial error by Aaron Judge on an easy pop fly to center field that was dropped with two outs, opening the window for the Dodgers to take back momentum.
Stanton was quick to answer back in attempt to stop the momentum swing with a sacrifice fly to deep center field, scoring Juan Soto.
The one run lead didn’t last very long as Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts took the Dodgers up one with sacrifice flies of their own, making the score 7-6.
The Dodgers closed out the game with Blake Treinen and Walker Beuhler shutting out the Yankees lineup and making a spot in history for Los Angeles as the 2024 World Series Champions.
