The Los Angeles Dodgers have the American baseball crown in sight after their third victory in the World Series. By winning 4-2 at the New York Yankees, the Californians increased their lead to 3-0 in the Major League Baseball (MLB) final series. The Dodgers can win their first title since 2020 at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday (local time).
The decisive man in the third game was Freddie Freeman, who scored two points with a home run in the first inning. Freeman had hit the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history when he scored four points with a home run in the last inning to end the game.
“In a foreign stadium you always want to try to strike early and silence the crowd. We did that today,” Freeman said. Before him, only Barry Bonds had hit home runs in the first three games of a World Series in 2002.
The Yankees are now threatened with a 0-4 defeat in the World Series against Cincinnati for the first time since 1976. The last such “sweep” in a final series was achieved by the San Francisco Giants against the Detroit Tigers in 2012.
The Dodgers are aiming for their eighth World Series title, while the Yankees would extend their record to 28th championship with their first triumph since 2009.
