Lights, camera, play ball!
Freddie Freeman hit a grand slam in the 10th inning to give the Dodgers Los Angeles will leave the New York Yankees on the field, defeating them this Friday 6-3 in the first game of the Major League World Series.
Freeman, who is playing with discomfort in his ankle, made the 52,394 fans who attended the Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles celebrate, where this Saturday the second of the series will be played, which is played in the best of seven games, in which the Cuban Carlos Rodón, for the Yankees, will face Yoshinobu Yamamoto, for the Dodgers.
TRIBUTE TO FERNANDO VALENZUELA
Before the start of the first game, the Dodgers, who played with a patch with the number 34 on their uniform, paid tribute to the memory of the late former Mexican pitcher Fernando Valenzuela, dedicating a minute of silence, while his former teammates Orel Hershiser and Steve Yeager placed the honor pitch ball around the number 34, painted on the mound.
The Dodgers took the lock off the scoreboard in the fifth inning, when Will Smith hit a sacrifice fly to right field and Puerto Rican Kike Hernández managed to evade Dominican Juan Soto’s shot to the plate, to score the first round of the game.
The Yankees’ response was immediate and as soon as at the top of the sixth inning, Giancarlo Stanton disappeared the ball over the left field wall of Dodgers Stadium, against Jack Flaherty, to turn the score around and place to the visitors in advantage (1-2).
Pets are also feeling the Dodger blue fever, as many owners are taking their dogs to groomers to give them a touch of “Dodger blue” and support the Los Angeles team.
The home run by Stanton, who was the Most Valuable Player of the Championship Series, was his fourth consecutive in this postseason, a stage in which he has already added six home runs in a complete return.
The Dodgers tied the score in the eighth inning, when Ohtani hit a double and advanced to third base, on an error by Venezuelan Gleyber Torres, from where he then scored on a sacrifice line to center field by Betts.
In the tenth inning, with men on first and third, Volpe hit a drive that shortstop Edman managed to take, but could only force out at second base, allowing Jazz Chisholm Jr. to score the run to break the tie.
The fans celebrated the Dodgers’ National League title and won their ticket to the World Series.
At the end of that tenth inning, with two out and three men on the bases, Freeman hit the first pitch from Cuban Néstor Cortés and sent the ball over the right field wall, giving the Dodgers the victory. .
Flaherty, who started for the Dodgers, pitched 5.1 innings in which he struck out six batters, leaving the game after Stanton’s two-run blast.
Cole fulfilled the task of controlling the Dodgers’ powerful lineup in the first game of the World Series and this Friday he pitched six innings, in which they hit four hits and scored one run, with four strikeouts.
The victory went to Blake Treinen (1-0), who pitched 1.1 one-run innings and the loss went to Jake Cousins (0-1), who allowed two runs in a third of an inning.
