World series game
After taking advantage of three miscues to erase a five-run, fifth-inning deficit during one of the most memorable midgame meltdowns in baseball history, the Dodgers used eighth-inning sacrifice flies from Gavin Lux and Mookie Betts to beat New York 7-6 on Wednesday night.< https://tacomarentallisting.com/ /p>
The redemption for Volpe’s earlier mistake came on the first pitch from Daniel Hudson, a slider low and over the plate. He swung and crushed it 390 feet to left field. Like that, the Yankees went from down and out to up 5-2 in the third inning. The big swing was courtesy of the local kid who grew up in Morristown, N.J. and grew up to become the Yankees shortstop.
• This was the fifth straight season in which a Will Smith won a World Series ring, thanks to the Dodgers’ catcher. In 2023 it was LHP Will Smith (TEX), who also won in 2022 (HOU) and 2021 (ATL). In 2020, it was catcher Will Smith — who homered off the pitcher earlier in that postseason run.
Los Angeles went on an unprecedented $1.25 billion spending spree last offseason on deals with Ohtani, pitchers Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and James Paxton, and outfielder Teoscar Hernández. Much of the money was future obligations that raised the Dodgers’ deferred compensation to $915.5 million owed from 2028-44.
Faced with injuries, the Dodgers acquired Flaherty, Edman and reliever Michael Kopech ahead of the trade deadline, and all became important cogs in the title run. The additions boosted payroll to $266 million, third behind the Mets and the Yankees, plus a projected $43 million luxury tax.
Game 7 world series 2019
Oct. 13, 1960 — Pirates 10, Yankees 9Possibly the greatest Game 7 of all time, Bill Mazeroski came to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning with the score tied at 9-9 and hit the only Game 7 walk-off home run in Fall Classic history, giving the Pirates their first World Series title since 1925.
Strasburg was named World Series MVP in 2019, opted out of the four years and $100 million remaining on his contract, then re-signed with the club on a new seven-year, $245 million deal. It was the richest pitching contract in baseball history at the time. (That lasted for about 24 hours because Gerrit Cole signed his nine-year, $324 million contract the very next day.) Injuries have limited Strasburg to eight ineffective starts since signing his new deal, and it’s unclear how much he’ll be able to contribute in the future. That contract is a total disaster.
Oct. 13, 1960 — Pirates 10, Yankees 9Possibly the greatest Game 7 of all time, Bill Mazeroski came to the plate in the bottom of the ninth inning with the score tied at 9-9 and hit the only Game 7 walk-off home run in Fall Classic history, giving the Pirates their first World Series title since 1925.
Strasburg was named World Series MVP in 2019, opted out of the four years and $100 million remaining on his contract, then re-signed with the club on a new seven-year, $245 million deal. It was the richest pitching contract in baseball history at the time. (That lasted for about 24 hours because Gerrit Cole signed his nine-year, $324 million contract the very next day.) Injuries have limited Strasburg to eight ineffective starts since signing his new deal, and it’s unclear how much he’ll be able to contribute in the future. That contract is a total disaster.
• No pitcher has saved more than one Game 7 in his career. The most innings pitched to save a Game 7 were the five scoreless frames hurled by Madison Bumgarner in his instant-classic performance to close out the Giants’ 2014 World Series victory over the Royals.
Oct. 29, 2014 — Giants 3, Royals 2Madison Bumgarner delivered a pitching performance for the ages in Game 7, throwing five shutout innings in relief on two days’ rest to clinch the Giants’ third championship in five seasons. Bumgarner protected a one-run lead the entire time, the longest save in postseason history, en route to winning Series MVP.
Game 5 world series
Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning for New York. Alex Verdugo’s RBI single chased Jack Flaherty in the second, and Giancarlo Stanton’s third-inning homer against Ryan Brasier built a 5-0 Yankees lead.
Freeman hit a two-run single to tie the Series record of 12 RBIs, set by Bobby Richardson over seven games in 1960, and was voted Series MVP. With the Dodgers one out from losing Friday’s opener, Freeman hit a game-ending grand slam reminiscent of Kirk Gibson’s homer off Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley in 1988’s Game 1 that sparked Los Angeles to the title.
If he’s anything like the Gerrit Cole we saw in Game 1, when he held the Dodgers to one run on four hits over six-plus innings at Dodger Stadium, then the Yankees pulse that was revived in Game 4 could quicken in Game 5.
Aaron Judge and Jazz Chisholm Jr. hit back-to-back home runs in the first inning for New York. Alex Verdugo’s RBI single chased Jack Flaherty in the second, and Giancarlo Stanton’s third-inning homer against Ryan Brasier built a 5-0 Yankees lead.
Freeman hit a two-run single to tie the Series record of 12 RBIs, set by Bobby Richardson over seven games in 1960, and was voted Series MVP. With the Dodgers one out from losing Friday’s opener, Freeman hit a game-ending grand slam reminiscent of Kirk Gibson’s homer off Oakland’s Dennis Eckersley in 1988’s Game 1 that sparked Los Angeles to the title.
If he’s anything like the Gerrit Cole we saw in Game 1, when he held the Dodgers to one run on four hits over six-plus innings at Dodger Stadium, then the Yankees pulse that was revived in Game 4 could quicken in Game 5.
