Freddie Freeman goes yard for 5th straight World Series game as Dodgers are 1 win away from title

Freddie Freeman is officially connected occurrence successful this World Series, arsenic different location tally led the Los Angeles Dodgers to a Game 3 victory, 4-2, implicit the New York Yankees connected Monday nighttime astatine Yankee Stadium. 

With the win, the Dodgers are present conscionable 1 much distant from their archetypal World Series rubric since 2020. 

Freeman has present gone gait successful 5 consecutive World Series games, dating backmost to his clip with the Atlanta Braves during their 2021 championship. He walked it disconnected successful Game 1 with his unthinkable expansive slam successful the bottommost of the 10th inning, and helium followed it up successful Game 2 with a solo changeable successful that victory. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers archetypal baseman Freddie Freeman (5) hits a 2 tally location tally during the archetypal inning against the New York Yankees successful crippled 3 of the 2024 MLB World Series astatine Yankee Stadium. (Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images)

Freeman wasted nary clip successful Game 3, making the astir of a missed determination by Yankees starter Clarke Schmidt and depositing it into the close tract seats for a two-run blast with 2 outs to enactment Los Angeles up 2-0 aboriginal successful this one. 

Meanwhile, Dodgers starter Walker Buehler, with a roaring assemblage successful the Bronx, silenced them with 5 innings of two-hit shot with 5 strikeouts. 

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Both of those hits came successful the 5th inning, too, arsenic helium was cruising portion his discourtesy plated 1 much tally successful the apical of the 3rd inning acknowledgment to a Mookie Betts sawed-off azygous that scored Tommy Edman, and though helium didn’t instrumentality for the sixth inning, Kiké Hernández had an RBI azygous himself to marque it 4-0. 

Buehler’s fastball was intelligibly moving from the commencement of this game, arsenic Yankee hitters couldn’t drawback up to it, which yet led to him utilizing his effectual breaking pitches to his advantage. Just arsenic Jack Flaherty did successful Game 1, and Yoshinobu Yamamoto successful Game 2, a Dodgers starter was effectual and allowed the discourtesy to plaything freely knowing they had a coagulated instauration connected the mound. 

For the Yankees, the lone discourtesy they could muster came connected their last out, arsenic Alex Verdugo parked a Michael Kopech transportation for a two-run location tally to enactment live successful the game. 

Aaron Judge, who has struggled mightily this postseason fto unsocial the World Series, had a ton of unit entering Game 3 due to the fact that helium was 1-for-9 with six strikeouts successful the archetypal 2 games. 

Unfortunately for the Yankees, helium couldn’t find it either successful Game 3, going 0-for-3 with different strikeout and a walk. 

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Walker Buehler (21) pitches during the archetypal inning against the New York Yankees successful crippled 3 of the 2024 MLB World Series astatine Yankee Stadium. (Brad Penner-Imagn Images)

The Yankees came adjacent to scoring earlier successful this 1 successful the bottommost of the 5th inning, erstwhile Giancarlo Stanton yet got the Yankees successful the deed file with a treble to near field. Anthony Volpe laced a azygous with 2 outs to near field, but Stanton, who isn’t the astir fleet of foot, was waved location by 3rd basal manager Luis Rojas. 

Teoscar Hernandez had the cleanable propulsion to home, arsenic Will Smith ne'er had to determination his mitt arsenic helium caught the shot and applied the tag to extremity the inning. 

At that moment, the crowd, which had gotten backmost into the crippled arsenic the Yankees showed beingness astatine the dish, went silenced erstwhile much arsenic the Dodgers continued to play exceptional baseball. 

Stanton went 2-for-4 connected the night, portion lone Volpe, Anthony Rizzo and Verdugo had a hit.

Brusdar Graterol, Alex Vesia, Daniel Hudson, Anthony Banda, and Ryan Braiser kept the scoreless streak going for the Dodgers until Kopech's blemish to Verdugo.

Los Angeles Dodgers archetypal baseman Freddie Freeman (5) celebrates aft hitting a 2 tally location tally during the archetypal inning against the New York Yankees successful crippled 3 of the 2024 MLB World Series astatine Yankee Stadium.  (Robert Deutsch-Imagn Images)

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New York can’t fto that hap again, arsenic they volition request to rip disconnected 4 consecutive games if they privation to telephone themselves satellite champions. 

Meanwhile, the Dodgers volition beryllium hunting for the expanse connected Tuesday nighttime successful the Bronx.  

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