Freddie Freeman walks off Game 1 as Yankees lose World Series opener to Dodgers

LOS ANGELES — Just erstwhile it looked similar Giancarlo Stanton had powered the Yankees to different postseason victory, the Bombers’ bullpen couldn’t bent connected successful Game 1 of the World Series.

The Dodgers managed a 6-3, 10-inning triumph successful their location ballpark connected Friday, arsenic sloppy defence allowed Shohei Ohtani to scope 3rd basal aft drilling a one-out treble disconnected Tommy Kahnle successful the eighth inning. The Japanese superstar precocious erstwhile Gleyber Torres couldn’t grip Juan Soto’s propulsion to second. Soto appeared to somewhat bobble the shot earlier firing arsenic well.

Ohtani past scored connected a sacrifice alert from Mookie Betts with Luke Weaver successful the game. While the Yankees retook the pb successful the 10th connected a fielder’s prime aft 2 stolen bases from Jazz Chisholm Jr., Freddie Freeman responded with a walk-off expansive slam disconnected Nestor Cortes successful the 10th inning.

Just similar that, the melodramatic opener came to a bitter extremity for the Yankees.

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The Dodgers’ precocious comeback spoiled a two-run moonshot from Stanton, who went heavy disconnected of L.A. starter Jack Flaherty successful the sixth inning.

Stanton, a Los Angeles native, has present homered successful 4 consecutive postseason games. However, the ALCS MVP’s latest blast wasn’t capable to transportation the Yankees successful a crippled that remained scoreless until the fifth.

Flaherty and Gerrit Cole, besides section products, dueled up until that point. Cole ended up with the amended line, totaling six innings, 4 hits, 1 earned run, zero walks, 4 strikeouts and 88 pitches successful the 3rd World Series commencement of his career.

The Dodgers’ lone tally disconnected the Yankees’ ace came connected a Will Smith sacrifice alert successful the fifth. That followed a triple from Enrique Hernández. Soto — a astonishing Gold Glove nominee who turned 26 connected Friday — didn’t play that shot good either.

Flaherty, who astir went to the Yankees successful a commercialized earlier this play earlier aesculapian concerns popped up, lone allowed the 2 runs connected Stanton’s homer implicit 5.1 innings.

The Yankees had a accidental to bounce backmost successful the ninth, arsenic Torres picked up a two-out double. It initially looked similar a homer, but a Dodgers instrumentality caught the shot and was called for interference. Fortunately for the Dodgers, Aaron Judge popped up aft an intentional locomotion to Soto.

Judge went 1-for-5 with 3 strikeouts successful the archetypal World Series crippled of his career.

With a series-opening loss, the Yankees volition effort to permission Chavez Ravine with the Fall Classic knotted up. A beardown show from Carlos Rodón would spell a agelong mode successful that effort, arsenic the southpaw is scheduled to commencement Game 2 connected Saturday.

“This lineup’s beauteous potent,” Rodón said. “They tin decidedly plaything it, and they person a bully thought what the onslaught portion is.”

Yoshinobu Yamamoto volition commencement for the Dodgers. Like Flaherty, the Japanese righty was pursued by the Yankees wrong the past year, lone to extremity up successful Los Angeles.

Originally Published: October 25, 2024 astatine 11:46 p.m.