The World Series was a highly anticipated matchup AL MVP vs NL MVP. Aaron Judge and the Yankees vs Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers. The teams with the two best records in each division, Yankees at 94-68 and the Dodgers at 98-64.
With the Dodgers having the best record, they started with home field advantage which played a big part in the game one win. The Dodgers opened up the scoring in the bottom of the 5th, with catcher Will Smith hitting a sacrifice fly to give the Dodgers a 1-0 lead. The Yankees went on to score two in the top of the 6th. But their lead wouldn’t last long as the Dodgers would tie the game in the eighth, forcing the game into extra innings. The Yankees struck, scoring a run in the top of the tenth to give the Yankees a 3-2 lead going into the bottom of the tenth, when firstbasemen Freddie Freeman came up with bases loaded and hit a game ending grand slam to end the game. The first walk off grand slam in World Series history.
The Dodgers would take the second game at home 4-2 as Freeman and the Dodgers would hit three homeruns to seal their first two home games to start. The Dodgers would also go on to win the first game in the Bronx 4-2 aging as Freeman would hit another home run making it his fourth straight game with a homerun and third straight game in the World Series with a homerun.
But game four would be different as the Yankees would fall behind 2-0 in the top of the first. The Yankees would fire right back, putting up one in the bottom of the second and four in the bottom of the third making the score 5-2 going into the 4th inning. The Dodgers wouldn’t go away as they would add two more in the top of the fifth making the score 5-4 Yankees going into the 6th. The Yankees would add one more in the bottom of the sixth, making the score 6-4 .as the Yankees wouldn’t look back from there on. Putting on five in the bottom of the eighth making the final score 11-4 as Freeman would hit another home run making that five straight games with a homerun.
Game five was looking like it would be pitchers dual as each team would have both their aces going. But that’s not how it started as Dodgers Starting pitcher Jack Flaherty would give up three runs in the first inning off an Aaron Judge two run home run and a Jazz Chisholm homerun. The Yankees didn’t stop there as they would add one more in the second off an Alex Verdugo single and one more in the third off a Giancarlo Stanton solo home run. The Yankees were looking like they were going to force a game six after going up 5-0 in the third inning. But disaster would strike as in the fifth inning the Dodgers would put up five unanswered runs on four hits and two big errors by the Yankees. The Yankees would be able to take the lead back in the 6th off a Stanton sacrifice fly making the score 6-5 going into the seventh inning. In the top of the 8th the Dodgers would take the lead 7-6 on two sacrifice flies meaning the Dodgers were only six outs away from winning the World Series. The Dodgers would hold them in the eighth and wouldn’t score any runs in the top of the ninth making the Dodgers three outs away. As they would call on former starting pitcher Walker Buehler to close the game out, he did just that, striking out two of the three batters.
The MVP of the World Series was Dodgers Freddie Freeman. As the Regular Season MVPs both struggled in the World Series with Judge batting .182 and Ohtani batting .230. People were expecting the series to go to game six or game seven and the games to be close with Judge and Ohtani going back and forth. But in reality it was Freeman and Juan Soto that both did well, as Freeman made history as he had six straight games with a homerun the most ever. And Soto batting .327 in the World Series. The Dodgers won the series 4-1 in five games making it their second World Series title in the 2020’s.
