Freddie Freeman hit a two-run home run and Walker Buehler had a dominant outing for the Los Angeles Dodgers to defeat the New York Yankees 2-4 this Monday, to be one win away from winning the 2024 World Series.
The fourth game of this Fall Classic will also be played this Tuesday at Yankee Stadium, where the Dodgers (3-0) will seek to finish the task and achieve the sweep against the Yankees (0-3), to be crowned champions of the 2024 season of the Major Leagues.
Freeman continued his fiery World Series and in the same first inning he detonated his bat against a fastball from right-hander Clarke Schmidt, who started for the Yankees, sending the ball to the stands in the right field of Yankee Stadium, with the Japanese Shohei Ohtani in the bases, to put two turns on the scoreboard for the Dodgers.
With his home run, Freeman reached five consecutive games hitting the ball out of the park in the World Series, as he has hit a home run in each of the three games of the current edition of the Fall Classic and in the last two games of the 2021, when he was crowned with the Atlanta Braves.
The Dodgers hit the record again in the third inning, when Mookie Betts He hit a single to the right field area, with which Tommy Edman managed to advance to the plate, to add the third run for those led by Daver Roberts.
The Yankees tried to get on the scoreboard at the end of the fourth inning, when with two outs, Anthony Volpe hit a hit to the left field, but the Dominican Teoscar Hernández took the ball from a bounce and made an accurate shot to the plate to retire Giancarlo Stanton at the plate, avoiding what would be the home team’s first run of the game.
After the opportunity missed by the Yankees, the Dodgers extended their difference on the scoreboard, adding one more score to their tally in the sixth act, through the undisputed midfield of Puerto Rican Kiké Hernández, to drive in Gavin Lux with the fourth score.
The Yankees again put men on first and second in the bottom of that sixth inning, but Jazz Chisholm Jr. grounded out to the second baseman to end the threat. The two runs for the locals came in the ninth inning, due to a home run by the Mexican Alex Verdugowith Anthony Rizzo in circulation.
