Los Angeles Dodgers This Wednesday they were proclaimed champions of the Major League World Series (MLB) for the eighth time in its history, after beating the New York Yankees 7-6 at home and close the series 4-1 with the ‘Bronx Bombers’ who could only win the fourth game and the Californians, with the Mexican Fernando Valenzuela as a great banner and symbol of dedication of this title.
The Dodgers were down 0-5 at Yankee Stadium, but came back with five runs in the fifth inning and scored two in the eighth to achieve American baseball glory. The Los Angeles franchise, with the Japanese Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman As visible faces, they had already won the World Series in 1955, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1981, 1988 and 2020.
Freeman and Dominican Teoscar Hernández each drove in two runs today for the Dodgers’ brutal comeback to overcome a 5-0 deficit to win 6-7. The Dodgers won their second title today under the direction of Dave Roberts. The first occurred in 2020.
The balance in the fifth game of the series was broken by the first home run in the World Series by Aaron Judge, who put two runs on the scoreboard. Just behind Judge’s hit, Jazz Chisholm Jr. contributed the third run in that first inning.
Those led by Aaron Boone continued with their foot on the accelerator and in the second inning the Mexican Alex Verdugo hit a hit to right field that led Anthony Volpe to the scorer. Giancarlo Stanton opened the third inning with his seventh home run of the postseason off reliever Ryan Brasier. The score was already 5-0.
The Dodgers came back with everything in the fifth inning and after taking advantage of errors by Judge and Volpe to load the bases, and after two outs, they achieved a five-run rally that left everything the same. The Dodgers’ first score came on a hit to first base by Mookie Betts, who singled, when Gerrit Cole failed to cover first base, allowing Puerto Rican Kiké Hernández to score.
Freddie Freeman followed with an undisputed lead to the central field that towed Tommy Edman and Will Smith. Dominican Teoscar Hernández hit a double against the center field wall, to bring Betts and Freeman to the plate.
Everything remained as in the beginning. The Yankees took the lead again in the sixth, when Soto scored from third base on Stanton’s sacrifice fly to center field.
Los Angeles took the lead for the first time in the eighth inning, when they scored twice, on sacrifice flies to center field by Lux and Betts. The home team tied it at second base, after one out, in the bottom of the eighth, but Stanton flied out to right field and Anthony Rizzo struck out to end the episode.
Flaherty could not fulfill the assignment of manager Dave Roberts, and left the game after only pitching 1.1 innings, in which he was punished for four runs and struck out only one batter. Blake Treinen pitched 2.1 scoreless innings to take the win and Walker Buehler (1) pitched the ninth to earn the save for the Dodgers.
For the Yankees, Cole was throwing a no-hitter until the fifth inning, when after two errors by his defense and his own lack of execution on a hit in which he did not cover the first base, he allowed five unearned runs, on his way to 6.2 innings, in which he struck out six opponents.
FREDDIE FREEMAN, THE MVP OF THE 2024 WORLD SERIES FOR THE ANGELES DODGERS
Freddie Freeman won the World Series Most Valuable Player award this Wednesday, after being crowned champion with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the title series against the New York Yankees, closed with a 4-1 in favor of the Angelenos.
Freeman hit four home runs, the first of which was a spectacular walk-off in the first game, and drove in twelve runs against the Yankees.
“This is it, I wouldn’t be here without the support of all my teammates. These last few months have been complicated, but this franchise, my family… this is too much,” Freeman said in the fieldside interview at Yankee Stadium.
“I couldn’t wish for a better year,” concluded an emotional Freeman.
