Freddie Freeman hit a two-run home run and Walker Buehler had a dominant outing as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Yankees 4-2 in New York this Monday, to be one win away from winning the 2024 Major League World Series. Baseball (MLB).
The fourth game of this Fall Classic will also be played this Tuesday at Yankee Stadium, where the Dodgers (3-0) will seek to finish the task and achieve the sweep against the Yankees (0-3), to be crowned champions of the 2024 season of the Major Leagues.
The Dodgers had Japanese Shohei Ohtani at the top of their lineup, as reported, after he suffered a partial dislocation of his left shoulder in last Saturday’s game.
The Yankees, who played their first game in New York in this series, continued to be dominated and have scored just seven runs in the three games they have played in this matchup against the Dodgers, five of them by home runs.
Solid work by Buehler
Buehler (1-0) climbed the mound for five innings and fulfilled the task for the Los Angeles team, managing to combine his powerful fastball, reaching 156 kilometers per hour, with his knuckle curve to knock out the pass to the Yankees hitters, against whom he only allowed two hits without runs, with two walks and five strikeouts.
Freeman continued his fiery World Series and in the same first inning he detonated his bat against a fastball from right-hander Clarke Schmidt, who started for the Yankees, sending the ball to the stands in the right field of Yankee Stadium, with the Japanese Shohei Ohtani in the bases, to put two turns on the scoreboard for the Dodgers.
With his home run, Freeman reached five consecutive games hitting the ball out of the park in the World Series, as he has hit a home run in each of the three games of the current edition of the Fall Classic and in the last two games of the 2021, when he was crowned with the Atlanta Braves.
The Dodgers hit the record again in the third inning, when Mookie Betts hit a single to the right field area, with which Tommy Edman managed to advance to the plate, to add the third run for those led by Daver Roberts.
The Yankees tried to get on the scoreboard at the end of the fourth inning, when with two outs, Anthony Volpe hit a hit to the left field, but the Dominican Teoscar Hernández took the ball from a bounce and made an accurate shot to the plate to retire Giancarlo Stanton at the plate, avoiding what would be the home team’s first run of the game.
After the opportunity missed by the Yankees, the Dodgers extended their difference on the scoreboard, adding one more score to their tally in the sixth act, undisputed through the middle of the field by Puerto Rican Kiké Hernández, to drive in Gavin Lux with the fourth score of the
Lost opportunity
The Yankees again put men on first and second in the bottom of that sixth inning, but Jazz Chisholm Jr. grounded out to the second baseman to end the threat.
The two runs for the locals came in the ninth inning, due to a home run by Mexican Alex Verdugo, with Anthony Rizzo in circulation.
For the second consecutive game, Yankees manager Aaron Boone had to rely on his relief pitching early in the game, after Schmidt (0-1) could only pitch 2.2 innings, in which he allowed four walks, They hit him twice and scored three times, only to take the loss.
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