Major League Baseball’s highly anticipated World Series is threatening to be a one-sided affair. The Los Angeles Dodgers increased to 3-0 in New York.
Freddie Freeman (5) and superstar Shohei Ohtani (left) celebrate their third victory at Yankee Stadium.”/>
The Los Angeles Dodgers around Freddie Freeman (5) and superstar Shohei Ohtani (left) celebrate their third victory at Yankee Stadium. IMAGO/Imagn Images
The New York Yankees couldn’t do anything with the home advantage either. The “Bronx Bombers” also lost Game 3 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers with 2:4. The highly anticipated duel between the two “powerhouses” of the MLB could end sooner than expected. More precisely, on Wednesday night (1:08 a.m. CET), when the Yankees invite you to the fourth duel – again in Yankee Stadium, which was filled with 49,368 excited fans on Monday.
Those who stuck with the Yankees were bitterly disappointed. Again, manager Aaron Boone’s team did not bring the decisive energy to their attacking game. New York didn’t manage a run until the final inning.
The guests from California are different. Freddie Freeman, THE man of this series so far, opened the action in the first inning with a two-run home run and also brought the shoulder-injured superstar Shohei Ohtani over home plate. The 35-year-old first baseman capped it in the opening game with the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history.
After Freeman hadn’t hit a single home run in the previous rounds, he now has three – and seems to be able to pull the Yankees’ teeth. The first title win for the Dodgers – pitcher Walker Buehler threw five strong innings and then received help from six nerve-racking replacements – has been within reach since 2020.
On the trail of Bonds
“In a foreign stadium you always want to try to strike early and silence the crowd. We did that today,” Freeman said. Before him, only baseball legend Barry Bonds had hit home runs in the first three games of a World Series in 2002.
The Yankees are now threatened with a 0-4 defeat in the World Series against Cincinnati for the first time since 1976. The last such “sweep” in a final series was achieved by the San Francisco Giants against the Detroit Tigers in 2012.
The Dodgers are aiming for their eighth World Series title, while the Yankees would extend their record to 28 championships with their first triumph since 2009.
