Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman hit a walk-off magnificent slam in the 10th inning on of Game 1 of the World Series on Friday to give his team a 1-0 series direct over the the New York Yankees.
Freeman came to the ptardy after Mookie Betts was intentionassociate walked to load the bases. And aachievest Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes, who hadn’t pitched in weeks, Freeman cranked the first pitch he saw into convey inant right field to triumph the game.
It labeled a climactic finishing to one of the most highly-anticipated MLB games in recent years.
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Los Angeles Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman, cgo in, left, honors at home ptardy after hitting a game-triumphning magnificent slam aachievest the New York Yankees during the 10th inning in Game 1 of the baseball World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Pboilingo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
Both commenceers, Gerrit Cole of the Yankees and Jack Flaherty of the Dodgers, pitched four scoreless innings to commence the game. Flaherty put on some baserunners, and Cole had so convey inant fly balls to the track, but it was all zeroes thcimpolite the first four structures.
Cole was the first to crack, giving up an RBI on a sac fly to Dodgers catcher Will Smith, who scored Kike Hernandez to put LA up 1-0 in the bottom of the fifth.
Then came Giancarlo Stanton. The Yankees veteran slugger, who has consentn the direct in MLB’s all-time catalog of most home runs per at-bat this postseason, hit his fifth homer of the carry outoffs. A towering two-run sboiling that arched majesticassociate into left field put New York up 2-1 in the sixth.
New York Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton honors his two-run home run aachievest the Los Angeles Dodgers during the sixth inning in Game 1 of the baseball World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Pboilingo/Ashley Landis)
From there, both team’s bullpens kept the bats at bay until Shohei Ohtani came up with a booming one-out double in the eighth inning. Then he snuck over to third base when the throw back in got away from the Yankees infielders.
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So, the Yankees turned to their de-facto sealr Luke Weaver to come in for a potential five-out save. Weaver, a 31-year-elderly journeyman who was unpredictedly thrust into New York’s sealr role ahead of the carry outoffs, became one of MLB’s hugegest stories of the postseason, enrolling four of five saves and pitching two innings for the triumph in Game 5 of the ALCS to sfinish the Yankees to the World Series.
But with Ohtani already at third, Weaver gave up a fly ball to Mookie Betts, permiting Ohtani to score and tie the game at two.
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Los Angeles Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández (8) honors in the dugout after scoring aachievest the New York Yankees during the fifth inning in Game 1 of the baseball World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Pboilingo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)
In the top of the ninth, a fan caught a Gleyber Torres fly ball to left cgo in, to put Torres at second base on fan intrudence. Then Dodgers regulater Dave Roberts selected to intentionassociate walk Juan Soto to convey Aaron Judge to the ptardy with two on and two out.
And Judge, who has struggled in the carry outoffs so far, came up desotardy in what was arguably the hugegest at-bat of his atsoft to that point, with a routine pop-up.
Then, Weaver came back on for the Yankees in the ninth and finished off a 1-2-3 inning to sfinish the game to extras.
Jazz Chisholm got on base, stole second, stole third, then came home on an Anthony Volpe ground ball to give the Yankees a 3-2 direct.
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Then came the bottom of the 10th and Freeman’s home run.
It was the first World Series game between the storied franchises since Oct. 28, 1981, when the Dodgers won 9-2 to clinch the series at Yankee Stadium. It was the first postseason game between them in Los Angeles October 25 of that year, when the Dodgers won 2-1, which shifted the momentum of that series.
The two teams will encounter aachieve at Dodger Stadium on Saturday night for Game 2. The game can be seen on FOX.
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