Tag: World Series game 1

Final Score: Dodgers 6 Yankees 3 10 innings

Why The Dodgers Won: Despite not being able to get runners in from 3rd base twice with less than 2 outs, the Dodgers were able to rally in the 10th inning scoring 4 runs on Freddie Freeman’s walk off grand slam home run. The game started out as a pitching duel between Jack Flaherty and Gerrit Cole. After 6 innings the score was 2-1 Yankees thanks to a 2 run one out homer by Giancarlo Stanton in the top of the 6th. He could have been the hero of the game, but the Yankees could not make a basic baseball play and it cost them the game. After the Stanton home run the Yankees loaded the bases with 2 outs but could not score a run. Tommy Edman made a great play on a ground ball that kept a run from scoring. It was a run that the Yankees would desperately need.

The KEY Moment Of The Game: Going into the bottom of the 8th the Yankees were clinging to that 2-1 lead. Shohei Ohtani lined a drive off the top of the right field wall and had to run hard to just get a double the ball was hit so hard. Juan Soto threw the ball in, and Gleyber Torres made a half-assed effort to catch the ball, with the ball going off his glove at a crazy angle allowing Ohtani to get to third base. Even though Soto was charged with the error Torres tried to short hop the ball when he did not have to, and it got by him. With Ohtani on third base and 1 out, Mookie Betts hit a sacrifice fly to deep centerfield that scored Ohtani with the tying run.. If the Yankees make this routine play, Ohtani is on 2nd base and the Dodgers do not score a run. The Yankees would have gone on to win the game 2-1 and there are no 10th inning heroics by Freddie Freeman.

Next Game: Tonight, Game 2 in Dodger Stadium. It will be Carlos Rodon going for the Yankees and Yoshinobu Yamamoto for the Dodgers. The big three for the Dodgers did better than the big three for the Yankees. Freeman, Betts and Ohtani went 3 for 13 with a home run and driving in 5 runs. Soto, Judge, and Stanton went 3 for 13 with a home run driving in 2 runs. Overall, the Dodgers put the ball in play better than the Yankees only striking out 4 times to the Yankees 13. It was an exciting tense opening game of the World Series, that boiled down to not making a basic routine play, allowing the Dodgers to go on and win the game. If the Dodgers win it in 7 games remember this one.