5:08 PST start time. Game 1 featured Jack Flaherty against Yankee ace, Gerrit Cole. Flaherty got Torres to line out to Muncy. Soto walked and Judge struck out. Stanton hit a ball that Edman missed for an error. Soto to second. Chisholm then grounded out to Lux. In the Dodger first, Ohtani flew out to center. Betts flew out to left. Freeman tripled to left. Teo lined out to Volpe.
Top of the second. Rizzo singled on a ball that hit Flaherty’s spikes. Volpe struck out, Wells grounded out to Lux and Verdugo grounded out to Edman. Dodger second. Muncy popped out, Kike and Smith struck out. Top of the third. Torres singled and Soto grounded into a double-play. Judge struck out. Bottom of the third. Lux flied out, Edman popped out and Ohtani struck out.
Yankees fourth. Stanton flied out, Chisholm grounded out and Rizzo flew out to left. Dodger fourth. Betts popped out, Freeman grounded out and Hernandez popped out. Top of the fifth. Volpe struck out, Wells struck out, Verdugo singled and Torres grounded out to Muncy. Dodger fifth. Muncy struck out. Kike tripled to right. Smith hit a sac-fly to right scoring Kike. 1-0 LA. Lux flied out to center.
Yankees sixth. Soto singled. Judge struck out. Stanton hit a 0-2 hanger deep into the left field seats. 2-1 Yankees. Banda replaced Flaherty. Chisholm singled and stole second. Rizzo struck out. Banda walked Volpe intentionally. Wells singled to load the bases. Verdugo struck out. Dodger sixth. Edman doubled to right. Ohtani grounded out Edman to third. Betts grounded out to Chisholm. Freeman flied out to Soto.
Yankees seventh. Graterol in to pitch for the Dodgers. Torres grounded out to Graterol. Soto popped out to Edman. Judge singled to center. Stanton struck out. Dodger seventh. Hernandez singled to center. Cole pulled from the game replaced by Clay Holmes. Muncy hit by a pitch, Teo to second. Kike sac bunt, Teo to third, Muncy to second. Smith popped out. Kahnle replaces Holmes. Lux grounded out to second. Still 2-1 NY. LA is 0-6 with RISP.
Yankees eighth. Vesia replaces Graterol. Chisholm leading off, struck out. Rizzo struck out. Volpe lined out to Kike. Dodger eighth. Edman, batting RH against a RHP grounds out to Volpe. Ohtani doubles to right. He goes to third on an error by Volpe. Weaver replaces Kahnle. Betts hit a sac-fly to center scoring Ohtani. 2-2. Freeman flied out to center. Yankees ninth. Kopech in to pitch for LA. Wells grounded out to Lux. Verdugo grounded out to Muncy. Torres doubles to left on fan interference. Call under review. Call confirmed. Soto intentionally walked. Treinen replaces Kopech. Judge popped out to Edman. Dodger ninth. Cabrerra takes over at second for the Yankees. Teo flies out to right. Muncy popped out to second. Kike flies out to left.
Yankees tenth. Treinen still pitching. No ghost runners in extras in the playoffs. Stanton strikes out. Chisholm singles to right. Chisholm steals second. Rizzo walked intentionally. Volpe up and Chisholm steals third. Volpe hit into a force play with Chisholm scoring. 3-2 NY. Edman misplayed the ball, costing a DP. Volpe steals second. Wells called out on strikes. Yankees 13th K of the night. Dodger tenth. Smith Lux and Edman due up. Cousins replaces Weaver for the Yankees. Smith flies out to Soto. Lux walks. Edman singles to second base. Cortes in to pitch for the Yankees. Ohtani flies out to Verdugo. Betts walked intentionally. Bases loaded. Freeman hits a grand slam homer on the first pitch. LA walks it off 6-3!
Summary: Pitching on both sides was excellent. Flaherty made one bad pitch, and it cost him 2 runs. Cole was equally good allowing only the sac-fly by Smith to score a run. Cole struck out four in his stint. The only 4 Dodgers to strike out. The Yankees on the other hand, struck out 13 times. Treinen despite giving up the go-ahead run, got the win. Cousins got the loss.
How do you like them apples????? Yay Freddie!!!!
Don’t understand bringing in Cortes for a high leverage spot.
dont really care.
I missed something and I didn’t hear either announcer address it. Did the umpires call Catch and Carry dead ball runners advance? That would be the reason to walk Mookie – open first base.
A Team Of Destiny — 1 down 3 to go.
I love everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!
A big shout-out to Treinen. Though the Yanks ran on him and filled the bases, he never panicked, kept his composure, and got out of the 10th somehow leaving his team down only 1 run. The guy is unflappable ..and deserved that win.
If anyone deserved this, it’s Freddie
Ho Hum, just another October baseball game………..
WOW, what a game! A Classic in game 1.
All that was missing was a call by Vin on Freddie’s slam. And the Spanish broadcast with Fernando.
It was sound strategy by Boone but Freddie had to be psyched for the opportunity after they choose to walk Mookie and go to Nestor Cortez. News Flash to Nestor; do not throw a pitch in the “loop-zone” to Freddie in that situation. Stanton hit one out in that zone out, to him, off Flaherty. If you are going to pitch there, you better get in.
We didn’t miss on our scouting report on the Umpiring Crew. They got off to a bad start with Carlos Torres, the HPU, Game 1.
My scouting report “Game 1: Carlos Torres (ranked 32nd of 90, 1st WS)
(my book) Carlos Torres – shitty. inconsistent. Refuses to call strikes south and sometimes north. May expand 1 & 5 zones. (that’s in the rivers, which is the area between the black and the batter’s box line. 1 zone is off the plate away to RHB, 5 zone is off plate inside to RHB)”. He lived up to being shitty.
I thought we had pissed it away a couple of times. Will Smith had a terrible at bat with the bases loaded unexplainable popped up the first pitch he saw, an inside hand-job, instead of taking that pitch. It was 6” inside.
And when Lux fell down rounding second on the grounder that get under the second sacker’s glove and rolled to the outfield. I think Lux had third base made and HAD TO go with 1 out. Maybe a quick corralling of the ball in center and a great throw, would have been close. But I’m going 1 run down.
And Lux fell down……………..he just tripped over his feet. I’m happy he didn’t blow up another knee, but he wasn’t held up and returning to the bag. He fell down.
But Ohtani’s up. Damned he doesn’t pop up the first pitch.
Duggie made a fabulous catch in the foul ball into the bleachers.
Had Lux been on 2nd, Duggie wouldn’t have caught pop up. If he had, Edman (or CT3)
walk home to tie the game.
How about Kike’s sac bunt with Rizzo up his ass? That defensive idea, right down Kike’s throat can scare a Manager out of the attempt. But Doc kept it on and it was a Great Sac bunt.
(I want to talk technical strategy on that bunt play. Runners 1st and 2nd. Sac is in order. The rage is to put that 1st baseman, Rizzo, right uo Kike’s ass. That can cause the Manager, to chicken out of the sacrifice. Edman bunted on the first pitch which surprised me. What I wan to know initially, is are the running the “Wheel Play”. You might take a pitch there and see if the Wheel is ON? It wasn’t and in that coverage, Kike can bunt the ball anywhere because there is no one to cover 3rd base.
Muncy made 2 difficult picks at 3rd look easy. His defensive chops are so much improve from seasons ago. He is the best defensive 3rd baseman his skills allow. And that looks like hours of hard work. He can pick-it coming forward and a step or two laterally. If he gets his hands on it, you’re out.
Shohei seems to be worth every penny. Pretty heads up play going to 3rd on the rocket double and the infielder failing to block the throw from Soto.
Let’s see if we can’t do this again tomorrow and Yamamoto giving us some innings. I expect him to show up.
Wooowwww, history repeating itself 36 years later almost to the date!
What a game!What a win!Wins like that can carry a team to a title all the way. We have seen it before, hope we see it with this Dodgers team again.
We are at a vacation home in Tuscanny, Italy, at the moment. Internet is not very reliable and would you know it went down in the bottom of the 8th.
Just came back 2 hours ago and I just finished watching on MLB archives.
If I had watched it live my screaming after FF grand slam would have woken up the entire family for sure.
Now lets go up 2-0 today!
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Guys and gals, if youf did not already listen to the call by Steve Nelson on the Dodgers radio network do it (I just did). An all time classic. Always liked Nelson but with this call he made himself immortal in Dodger history.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a game! Flaherty and the BP pitched great, FF was amazing with the grand slam and Edman continues to amaze with his game. He did make an error early in the game, but his diving stop to save a run and getting the second out late in the game was nothing short of spectacular.
Would love to see the Dodgers get game #2 and go to NY up 2-0.
Go Dodgers.
What a classic game. Something I’ve been wondering about is Lux’s ability to run the bases. He hasn’t stolen much. He hurt his knee just running and awkwardly collapsed tearing his knee up pretty bad. Last night he stumbled again and they immediately replaced him with CT3.
Edman should be opening day SS next year.
Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan.
Yanker fans losing their minds. Calling for Boony’s head.
Please Yoshi, another performance like the one in Yankee Stadium this season!
Need that Demon Samurai who turns those Yankees bats to stone.
Going up 2-0 would be huge.
Go Dodgers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is interesting
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In the world of analytics how does a manager ignore or is unaware of this stat? Why didn’t the Yankee manager put the ball on a tee for Freddie? The obsession with analytics determining so much of the game’s decisions and yet the above stat is not considered. I just shake my head.
So that clearly was the best baseball game I’ve ever been to. Only thing that will top this now is to be at a World Series clincher.
As Jack Buck said in 1988, “I (still) don’t believe what I just saw”
Well covered everyone.
I might have scored the ball Edmand bobbled a hit. The ball exploded in front of him and took a high bounce. To catch ot cleanly, he would have had to guess correctly how it would bounce. Usually ground balls are predictable.
I have been comfortable with balls hit to Lux but not as optimistic as I would like to be when he is hitting.
Davis does not want to talk over crowd noise during big moments. I can see him reaching over to Smoltz and putting his hand over his mouth after Freddie’s home run.
I do not know if anyone else caught this and mentioned it. If so, I apologize for repeating it. Gibson’s 1988 WS Game 1 walk off was almost to the minute of Freddie’s 2024 Game 1 walk off grand slam. Gibson’s homer had landed at 8:38 p.m. local time, Freeman’s cleared the wall at 8:39.
That was a great game. It embodied everything that a WS game should be. The two best teams, with tons of HOF talent. Great pitching, great defense, great clutch hitting, solid base running (especially Chisholm). And oh yeah…the Dodgers won. The Dodgers won a game that Gerrit Cole started, even though he was brilliant, and that could prove to be very big in this series.
As good as Cole was, Flaherty was better until the Giancarlo Stanton HR. Giancarlo crushes near mistakes. He hit a 1-2 knuckle curve out of the strike zone, but not enough inside. Bad placement for a guy who kills that kind of pitch. One bad pitch all night.
But Jack Flaherty also had 19 swings and misses. Gerrit Cole 9. Anthony Banda had 4 in the 5 batters he faced. Alex Vesia had 3, and Brusdar Graterol, the king of soft contract, had 2 whiffs. Other than Cole, Luke Weaver was the only other NYY pitcher to have a swing and miss He had 1. As a team, the Dodgers made contact, and a lot of them were loud outs. But only 10 whiffs in 9.2 innings. Keep making contact and good things happen.
I agree with those who believe the Dodgers have their 2025 opening day SS…Tommy Edman. He had two hits, and both off a RHP. He made a number of excellent defensive plays. And I agree with Bums that the ball he got the error on could have been called a hit. I had a friend ask me if I thought if Edman had fed the ball cleanly to Lux in the 10th, would he have been able to get the DP. I said no because (a) Volpe runs to well, and (b) Lux is not very good on the DP turn.
That was a hard 0-fer for Mookie. He crushed the ball three times with nothing to show for it except a needed sac fly. I think it bodes well for Mookie.
Tonight it is Yoshinobu Yamamoto vs LHP Carlos Rodón. Some LAD hitters hit Rodón very well. Others not so much.
· Kiké Hernández – 3-6 with 3 HR
· Tommy Edman – 2-6 with 1 HR
· Chris Taylor – 5-9 with 1 HR
· Shohei Ohtani – 1-3 with 1 HR and 3 BB
· Freddie Freeman – 1-7 with a HR
The bad…Mookie is 1-19 with 4 K’s against Rodón, Teoscar is 1-9 with 3 K, Smith 1-8 with 2 K, and Max 0-4 and 1 K. Look for CT3 to start at 2B against Rodón.
If the Dodgers need to sign any one to an extension, it is Tommy Edman. Guy is a baseball player, and at this point in time a very valuable player. He plays multiple positions, all of them well, he is a switch hitter who is ok as a left-handed batter and does damage from the right side. He has proven his worth to the team in what is a very short period of time. I seem to remember a certain poster not being too enamored with the trade when it was made. I can understand why AF tried to get him last year.
Dodgers named Buehler to start game 3 at Yankee Stadium against Schmidt.
Aaron Judge’s miss rate on sliders this Postseason is 70.0% –
14 misses on 20 swings.
DO NOT try to sneak an inside fastball by Soto. Big mistake. Chin music then spin it down.
Tommy Freaking Edman, Freddie the Fine and Timeless Teo getting it done. Yelping Yoshi Batman!
Friday was the first time that the Lakers, Dodgers and USC all won a game on the same day.
20/20 hindsight but I see no reason to do that.
Possible Ohtani injury on his slide into second. Hold your breath LA.
Some Japanese who heard what Ohtani said to the interpreter said he had dislocated his shoulder. Remember, Bellinger did the same thing in the NLCS in 2020.
Combined one-hitter through eight…
wow.
I like it. Yanks weren’t going to lie down. We took it and then stopped them when it mattered.