Los Angeles Dodgers They defeated the New York Mets 10-5 this Sunday and sealed their ticket to the World Series for a duel against the Yankees that took more than four decades to wait.
In front of their fans, the Los Angeles team finished the National League Championship Series against the Mets by a total of 4-2 and reached their 22nd final in Major League Baseball.
Dodgers and New York Yankees have met 11 times in the World Series, more than any other rivalry, with the Los Angeles franchise’s last victory in 1981.
The Yankees, however, are the ones that dominate the historical balance with a total of eight winsthe last of them in 1978.
“The Yankees are a great team, with great players and coaches. I’m looking forward to playing against them,” Japanese Shohei Ohtani, the Dodgers’ superstar, who will play in his first World Series in his seven seasons in the Major Leagues, told Fox television. .
“This is the place where I have wanted to be all my life. Getting to this stage and hopefully winning is my next goal,” said Ohtani, who He plays his first season with the Dodgers after signing the largest contract in history, valued at about 700 million dollars for a decade.
The Yankees were the first to qualify for the ‘Fall Classic at proclaim themselves champions of the American League on Saturday by a 4-1 aggregate against the Cleveland Guardians.
The popular New York team did not step on the World Series since 2009 while for the Dodgers it will be their fourth presence in the last eight years, with a last victory in 2020.
Ohtani will be one of the main protagonists of a power battle against the fearsome ‘Bronx Bombers’, led by the American Aaron Judge and the Dominican Juan Soto.
In addition to the Japanese, the Dodgers have two other winners of the award MVP – Mookie Betts y Freddie Freeman – but none of them were the heroes of the series against the Mets.
That honor was earned by Tommy Edman with a final performance in Sunday’s decisive game, in which he hit a two-run home run in a third inning in which the locals gave the decisive acceleration with another equal home run by Will Smith.
Mets farewell.
The Mets, the unexpected guest in these Championship Series, had dodged the Dodgers’ first bullet by winning the fifth game on Friday and aspired to force a seventh for Monday.
The New Yorkers went ahead on the scoreboard on Sunday amid the spectacular atmosphere created by the 52,000 fans at Dodger Stadium.
The Puerto Rican Francisco Lindor He went through the register in the first inning after a single by Mets star Pete Alonso.
The Dodgers turned it around in the same inning thanks to a double by Edman that drove in scores by Ohtani and the Dominican Teoscar Hernández.
The locals escaped in the third inning with two-run homers from Edman himself and Will Smith.
The Mets, who were down 6-1, regained ground with another two-run homer by Mark Vientos in the fourth inning and then with a run by Tyrone Taylor after a sacrifice fly by Álvarez.
But the Dodgers’ collection of figures stood in the way of the comeback with a three-run eighth inning, which included a double by Betts and a single by Puerto Rican Kiké Hernández.
Dodger Stadium will be the scene of the first game on Friday of the World Series, with the Yankees looking to increase their record of 27 titles and the Angelenos looking for their eighth.
