Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam gives Dodgers Game 1 World Series win vs. Yankees

Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman deed a walk-off expansive slam successful the 10th inning connected of Game 1 of the World Series connected Friday to springiness his squad a 1-0 bid pb implicit the the New York Yankees. 

Freeman came to the sheet aft Mookie Betts was intentionally walked to load the bases. And against Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes, who hadn't pitched successful weeks, Freeman cranked the archetypal transportation helium saw into heavy close tract to triumph the game. 

It marked a climactic ending to 1 of the astir highly-anticipated MLB games successful caller years. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman, center, left, celebrates astatine location sheet aft hitting a game-winning expansive slam against the New York Yankees during the 10th inning successful Game 1 of the shot World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Both starters, Gerrit Cole of the Yankees and Jack Flaherty of the Dodgers, pitched 4 scoreless innings to commencement the game. Flaherty enactment connected immoderate baserunners, and Cole had truthful heavy alert balls to the track, but it was each zeroes done the archetypal 4 frames. 

Cole was the archetypal to crack, giving up an RBI connected a sac alert to Dodgers catcher Will Smith, who scored Kike Hernandez to enactment LA up 1-0 successful the bottommost of the fifth. 

Then came Giancarlo Stanton. The Yankees seasoned slugger, who has taken the pb successful MLB's all-time database of astir location runs per at-bat this postseason, deed his 5th homer of the playoffs. A towering two-run changeable that arched majestically into near tract enactment New York up 2-1 successful the sixth. 

New York Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton celebrates his two-run location tally against the Los Angeles Dodgers during the sixth inning successful Game 1 of the shot World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

From there, some team's bullpens kept the bats astatine bay until Shohei Ohtani came up with a booming one-out treble successful the eighth inning. Then helium snuck implicit to 3rd basal erstwhile the propulsion backmost successful got distant from the Yankees infielders. 

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So, the Yankees turned to their de-facto person Luke Weaver to travel successful for a imaginable five-out save. Weaver, a 31-year-old journeyman who was unexpectedly thrust into New York's person relation up of the playoffs, became 1 of MLB's biggest stories of the postseason, signaling 4 of 5 saves and pitching 2 innings for the triumph successful Game 5 of the ALCS to nonstop the Yankees to the World Series. 

But with Ohtani already astatine third, Weaver gave up a alert shot to Mookie Betts, allowing Ohtani to people and necktie the crippled astatine two. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Kiké Hernández (8) celebrates successful the dugout aft scoring against the New York Yankees during the 5th inning successful Game 1 of the shot World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

In the apical of the ninth, a instrumentality caught a Gleyber Torres alert shot to near center, to enactment Torres astatine 2nd basal connected instrumentality interference. Then Dodgers manager Dave Roberts opted to intentionally locomotion Juan Soto to bring Aaron Judge to the sheet with 2 connected and 2 out. 

And Judge, who has struggled successful the playoffs truthful far, came up bare successful what was arguably the biggest at-bat of his vocation to that point, with a regular pop-up. 

Then, Weaver came backmost connected for the Yankees successful the ninth and finished disconnected a 1-2-3 inning to nonstop the crippled to extras.

Jazz Chisholm got connected base, stole second, stole third, past came location connected an Anthony Volpe crushed shot to springiness the Yankees a 3-2 lead. 

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Then came the bottommost of the 10th and Freeman's location run.

It was the archetypal World Series crippled betwixt the storied franchises since Oct. 28, 1981, erstwhile the Dodgers won 9-2 to clinch the bid astatine Yankee Stadium. It was the archetypal postseason crippled betwixt them successful Los Angeles October 25 of that year, erstwhile the Dodgers won 2-1, which shifted the momentum of that series.

The 2 teams volition conscionable again astatine Dodger Stadium connected Saturday nighttime for Game 2. The crippled tin beryllium seen connected FOX.

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