With recitals of Mookie Betts y Shohei Ohtani, los Dodgers of Los Angeles crushed the New York Mets 10-2 this Thursday and were one win away from the World Series while the Cleveland Guardians achieved an agonizing 7×5 victory against the Yankees.
The Dominican Jhonkensy Noelwith a two-run homer, rescued the Guardians when they were two runs behind in the bottom of the ninth inning.
Cleveland, which won with another David Fry home run in the tenth inning, remains down 2-1 against the New York Yankees in this American League Championship Series, which they will try to match again on Friday in front of their fans.
In the National League, the Dodgers dominant por 3-1 and they can finish the series on Friday in New York.
The three victories of the Los Angeles franchise have been by at least eight runs.
The fourth episode at Citi Field began with Ohtani and Mark Vientos trading home runs in the opening inning.
The Japanese went through the register again after one of Mookie Betts’ four hits, his personal record in the postseason.
After a single by Puerto Rican Kiké Hernández, one of the hot players in this series, Betts himself scored in the third inning and in the fourth he hit another double to put the Dodgers up 5-2.
Part of the trio of Dodgers MVP winners, Betts completed his exhibition with a home run to left field in the sixth inning.
The Mets were not present on the board since their last score in the third inning by the Venezuelan Francisco Alvarez.
Three Dodger relievers kept up with Japanese starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who struck out eight, allowing two runs and four hits in 4 1/3 innings.
The visitors rounded out the beating with another three runs in the eighth inning and put themselves on the verge of their first World Series since their victory in 2020.
Noel salva a Cleveland.
In Cleveland, the Guardians found themselves on the brink of the precipice against the Yankees but the Dominican Jhonkensy Noel came to their rescue to achieve a 7×5 victory in extra innings.
The young first baseman, nicknamed ‘Big Christmas’, gave the home fans a providential two-run home run when the Yankees were up 3-5 in the bottom of the ninth inning.
The Yankees, who have not reached the Major League finals since 2009, had also come back from a deficit thanks to two consecutive home runs by Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton in the eighth inning.
At that time the ‘Bronx Bombers were down 3-1 and two outs when Judge hit a two-run home run for the second consecutive game.
With the score tied, Stanton came up to bat to hit another home run that put the Yankees ahead to the frustration of the stands at Progressive Field in Cleveland.
Earlier, the Guardians had moved ahead for the first time in the entire series after Kyle Manzardo’s two-run homer neutralized Anthony Volpe’s opening run.
After homers by Judge and Stanton, the Yankees extended the lead even further in the ninth inning when Anthony Volpe took advantage of a sacrifice fly by Venezuelan Gleyber Torres.
But in the lower half, Noel saved the locals with a 123-meter home run that also allowed Lane Thomas to score and lit up the stands with happiness.
In the tenth inning, David Fry hit the winning home run that allows Cleveland to continue dreaming of reaching its first World Series since 2016 and fighting for a title that has eluded them since 1948.
“It’s incredible. I still don’t know what happened, but in the end we won,” Fry acknowledged. “When everyone thinks we can’t do it, we think we can.”
