They were the favorites by virtue of a top-of-the-class regular season – 98 victories in 162 matches, the only team to finish with a success percentage above 600 (605 to be precise) -, but only on paper, because in the playoffs Los Angeles Dodgers had sweated to overcome first the San Diego Padres, then the New York Mets, thanks to a pitching mound without its stars (Glasnow, Kershaw and Gonsolin). On the contrary, the New York Yankees, galvanized by having returned to the World Series after 15 years, had first swept away the Kansas City Royals, then the Cleveland Guardians, counting on all their aces at their disposal. The diamond said Los Angeles Dodgers, the team of the best player in the world Shohei Ohtanihowever “demoted” to the role of supporting actor in the last act of the Major League, also due to a shoulder problem suffered in game 2 which affected him in the following matches. However, the Japanese was well replaced by the 35-year-old Freddie Freeman.
Freeman sets a new record
A first baseman, he won the title of best player in the league in 2020 and his first World Series in 2021, before leaving the Atlanta Braves. Having arrived in Los Angeles in the winter of 2022, Freeman wrote a new page in the Stars Stripes hit-and-run game during these finals, hitting a home run in each of the first four games of the World Series and thus establishing a new record. A streak that extends to six games – again, the first ever – thanks to the two games with home runs with which he concluded the 2021 finals with Atlanta. Freeman was logically elected MVP of the World Series which the Dodgers immediately channeled towards Los Angeles by winning the first three games. Then on Wednesday the success of the Bronx Bombers’ hope in game 4 by 11-4 thanks to home runs (3) and stolen bases (5).
Doll Yankees defense
The Yankees dreamed of a sensational comeback and until halfway through the fifth game they were even succeeding: ahead 5-0 thanks to Judge’s home runs (disappointing up to that point and in any case throughout the final series), Chisholm jr e Stantonthe sporting “drama” for all the New York fans took place in the fifth inning. Manager Boone’s defense literally went to shit, the two home idols, captain Judge and the baby Volpethey committed two trivial errors, then the starting pitcher Coledominant up until that moment, did not complete a defensive game correctly and the Dodgers, almost doomed, scored 5 points to bring themselves to a tie.
Los Angeles, the queen city of sports
The Yankees tried a new push in the sixth, but in the eighth, down 5-6, the Californians scored two runs that allowed them to go to 7-6, an advantage then defended in the ninth inning by the winning pitcher of game 2, Walker Buehlerback at full capacity in 2024 after a year and a half stuck in the pits. Buehler he was deployed by the manager Roberts as a closer and struck out three batters in a row – Volpe, Wells e Verdugothe latter two due to strike outs – thus giving the Dodgers a success 4 matches to 1 and the eighth title in their history, like the San Francisco Giants. The Yankees remain distant at 27, but that’s another story. The Dodgers confirm the positive trend of the city of angels. The last ten years have been full of successes for the professional teams of Los Angeles who have made the city queen of sport made in the USA.
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