This Friday the New York Yankees They fell in the first game of the World Series where, in the tenth inning, Los Angeles Dodgers They won in the tenth inning thanks to a home run by Freddie Freeman to, statistically, take a significant advantage in the Series.
Although there are three games left for the Dodgers crowned champions, the Yankees must deal with a statistic that, just losing the first game, has them on the canvas and that is, according to ESPNthe ninth that the first wins ends up lifting the Commissioner’s trophy.
17 of the last 21 teams that have taken first have ended up being crowned; historically, 64% of the winners of the first nine innings have been champions in the Major League Baseballsomething that takes away hope from Yankees.
This Saturday the second match of the series is played.
The Yankees have already come back from 0-2 in the World Series
The ninth New York team has already overcome a disadvantage, in the 1996 World Series those then commanded by Joe Torrelost the first two games of the series against the Atlanta Braves to end up winning the commissioner’s trophy in six games.
The ninth New Yorker lost both in the old Yankee Stadium and then win three in the Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium and finish the work in the sixth in the house that Babe Ruth built.
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