The Yankees live! Beat the Dodgers and the World Series lights up

By EFE

Anthony Volpe hit a grand slam and Gleyber Torres also shone in New York

Anthony Volpe hit a grand slam this Tuesday and Venezuelan Gleyber Torres accompanied him with a three-run home run as the New York Yankees defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4, avoided the sweep and stayed alive in the Series. World.

Now the Yankees (1-3) will try to extend this duel against the Dodgers (3-1) and this Wednesday they will send their ace Gerrit Cole to the Yankee Stadium mound, to start the fifth game of this Fall Classic, against Jack Flaherty , who pitched for the Los Angeles team.

The Yankees offense, which had only scored seven runs in the first three games of the World Series, showed its best version this Tuesday, scoring nine hits, including three home runs and three doubles, to reach its 11 runs.

As if it were a script from a Hollywood movie, the Yankees started behind on the scoreboard, when Freddie Freeman stood at the plate and detonated his bat before a pitch from the Dominican rookie Luis Gil, sending the ball over the wall of right field don Mookie Betts on the bases, to hit a two-run home run in the first inning for the second consecutive day, putting the Dodgers in front (0-2)

With his home run complete, Freeman homered in all four games of this Fall Classic and reached six consecutive World Series games by sending the ball out of the park, along with the last two games of the 2021 edition, when he He was crowned champion with the Atlanta Braves.

The New Yorkers responded in the second inning, getting closer on the scoreboard, with a run driven in by Mexican Alex Verdugo, who hit a ground ball to first base, with which Anthony Volpe advanced to the register from third base.

The Yankees continued to attack in the third inning, when with two outs and three runners on the bases, Volpe destroyed a slider that was hanging on the inside of the plate by reliever Daniel Hudson, to deposit the ball in the left field stands of the Yankee Stadium, to put four scores on the scoreboard, to give the New York team the lead (5-2).

Will Smith was in charge of starting the fifth inning with a home run to the right field side off Gil and Freeman failed with a hit to force out the second baseman, which Betts took advantage of to reach the buzzer, putting the Dodgers at a disadvantage of just one run (5-4).

The Yankees put ground in the middle again in the sixth inning, when the catcher of Dominican origin, Austin Wells, sent the ball beyond the limits of the field, without runners on the bases, in front of the pitches of Landon Knack.

Those from New York were in charge of sealing their victory by scoring five times in the eighth, in which Verdugo drove in Volpe with a ground ball to the second baseman, in a selection play at the plate.

Torres followed Verdugo and with a powerful swing against Brent Honeywell, he dragged him to the plate, along with Wells, to add three more runs for the Yankees, who also had Judge’s single, to drive the Dominican Juan Soto.