After overcoming the Championship Series of their respective leagues, New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers will meet in the World Series of the 2024 Major League Baseball Postseason. This edition of the Fall Classic will feature incredible players on each side, as Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani will lead each of these franchises.
For the first time since 1956, the World Series will have the home run leaders of the American League and the National League face to facein a historic event that causes all the spotlights to be on the captain of the Bronx Bombers and the spectacular Japanese baseball player of the Los Angeles organization as those in charge of guiding their teams to search for the Commissioner’s Trophy.
Manhattan Mules jersey ’99’ hit 58 home runs in the 2024 MLB regular campaign, while the number ’17’ of the LA Dodgers did the same with 54 home runs. In the present MLB 2024 postseason, Judge has just two home runs and Ohtani surpasses him with 3so the Fall Classic may be the definitive awakening of these players.
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In addition to what has been done so far by Judge and Ohtani, other Yankees and Dodgers baseball players appear for their home runs in the Playoffs, but it is those of the Los Angeles franchise who outnumber the New Yorkers. Giancarlo Stanton (5) and Juan Soto (3) lead the NYY, but Mookie Betts (4), Max Muncy (3), Kiké Hernández (2), Teoscar Hernández (2), Will Smith (2) and Andy Pages ( 2) LAD HR’s are also distributed.
Dodgers visited New York in regular season
At the beginning of June of this year, the Los Angeles Dodgers went to New York to visit the Yankees in a three-game series, where they ended up taking the victory (2-1) after emerging victorious in matches one and two. During the first game, Aaron Judge had an RBI, but Shohei Ohtani ended up being one of the runs for Dave Roberts’ team to take the score 2-1 in extra innings.
In the second confrontation they were once again the protagonists in the 11-3 of the Angelenos, since The Japanese drove in a Dodgers line and had two runs scoredadded to that ‘The Judge’ was in charge of hitting a couple of home runs to put the Yankees on the scoreboard.
For the third game the victory remained in ‘The Big Apple’ and the person in charge of commanding everything was Aaron Judge, who hit a spectacular solo home run, scored a run on Trent Grisham’s HR and then hit an RBI double. For this last chapter of the series in the regular campaign, Ohtani had a hit and a run, where Judge was very close to getting him out with a throw from right field to home plate.
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