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This was the first World Series to feature the teams with the best record in each league since the 2020 World Series. This was just the fifth time in the Wild Card era (1995–present) where both teams with the best record in each league faced each other in the World Series 1990 FIFA World Cup Italy.

The Dodgers added another run in the sixth inning when Gavin Lux was hit by a Jake Cousins pitch, stole second base, and scored on a single by Enrique Hernández. The Yankees left five runners on base over the next three innings before Alex Verdugo followed an Anthony Rizzo single with a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth to cut the Los Angeles lead in half at 4–2. However, the next batter, Gleyber Torres, grounded out to end the game and give the Dodgers a 3–0 series lead. Buehler pitched five scoreless innings in the game for the Dodgers to receive the win.

For the 25th consecutive year, the World Series was televised in the United States by Fox. Play-by-play announcer Joe Davis (who was the Dodgers’ lead television announcer on Spectrum SportsNet LA during the regular season) called the games, along with Baseball Hall of Famer John Smoltz as color analyst and Ken Rosenthal and Tom Verducci as field reporters. Kevin Burkhardt hosted the pregame and postgame shows, joined by analysts Derek Jeter, Alex Rodriguez, and David Ortiz. Fox Deportes aired the Spanish-language telecasts, with play-by-play announcer Adrian Garcia Marquez, analyst Edgar Gonzalez, and reporters Carlos Alvarez and Jaime Motta.

In all best-of-seven postseason series, teams taking a 3-0 lead have gone on to win the series 39 of 40 times (98%), including 31 sweeps. Just two teams down 3-0 have even forced a Game 7: The 2020 Astros, who lost to the Rays in the ALCS, and the 2004 Red Sox, who famously beat the Yankees in the ALCS.

Game 1 world series

Jazz Chisholm singles, then steals second. The Yankees have the go-ahead run in scoring position with one out. Anthony Volpe comes up after the Dodgers fall 3-0 behind to Anthony Rizzo and opt to intentionally walk him.

Who are the starting pitchers?Yankees: RHP Gerrit Cole (8-5, 3.41 ERA in the regular season)Cole will make his third career World Series start, having taken the ball twice in 2019 for the Astros, winning one and losing one. The AL’s reigning Cy Young Award winner, Cole’s season debut was delayed until June 19 due to nerve irritation in his pitching elbow, and he was limited to 17 starts during the regular season. Cole is 1-0 with a 3.31 ERA in three starts this postseason. His sharpest outing came vs. the Royals in ALDS Game 4, when he navigated seven innings of one-run ball.

In July, Max went into full paralysis and Freeman left the Dodgers team to be with his family at the hospital. Eventually, doctors said that his son would make a recovery and Freeman rejoined the team in August.

Game 5 world series 2024

10:22 p.m. — Judge continues his breakout night with a strong at-bat, getting Graterol into a 3-2 hole before walking behind Soto. Chisholm is on deck having hit a home run already tonight as well, and Roberts makes another mound visit.

“We just took advantage of every mistake they made in that inning,” Teoscar Hernández said. “We put some good at-bats together. We put the ball in play. A lot of people say when you put the ball in play, things might happen. It happened to us in that inning, and we scored five runs.”

Before the start of Game 5 on Wednesday night, with the Dodgers just one win from a championship holding a three-games-to-one lead in the Fall Classic, much of the pregame conversation revolved around the two Yankees fans who interfered — to put it mildly — with Mookie Betts’ first-inning catch in foul territory in right field.

After going hitless in the first inning in each of the World Series’ first four games, the Bronx Bombers erupted in the first inning of this one. Facing Flaherty, Aaron Judge shook off his persistent postseason struggles with a 403-foot homer to the opposite field in right. And when Jazz Chisholm Jr. went back to back with a solo shot of his own to make it 3-0, Yankee Stadium was shaking.