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Highlights from World Series Game 4

Vaseline October 30, 2024

NEW YORK – The Los Angeles Dodgers are nine innings away from a fourth and final champagne celebration – and the eighth World Series championship in franchise history.

They lead the New York Yankees 3-0 heading into Tuesday night’s Game 4, a lead that has proven insurmountable in the 120 years of the Fall Classic. In fact, 21 of the 24 teams that have taken a 3-0 lead have ended the game with a sweep, most recently the 2012 San Francisco Giants.

The question is how much pride there is in the Yankees.

They were punchless in the first three games, scoring just seven runs and being shut out for the first 8 ⅔ innings of Game 3 before an Alex Verdugo two-run homer put some window dressing on a 4-2 loss. In Game 4, they turn to reliable rookie Luis Gil against a bullpen matchup for the Dodgers.

That approach concluded the Dodgers’ final series, a six-game conquest against the New York Mets in the NL Championship Series. When the Dodgers’ pitching is back on track, they leave a champagne-soaked carpet in the Bronx and pack a shiny, flag-decorated trophy for the trip home.

– Gabe Lacques

Follow along for live updates from Tuesday’s Game 4:

NEW YORK – As expensive as World Series tickets are, they don’t give fans the right to interfere with the playing field.

Don’t pry the ball away from Mookie Betts either.

A pair of New York Yankees fans were escorted from their seats down the right field line after one was called for fan interference on an errant pop-fly on the bat of New York Yankees leadoff hitter Gleyber Torres in Game 4 of the World Series Tuesday night .

Right field umpire Mark Carlson immediately flagged fan interference. But that wasn’t the end.

A fan sitting next to the one calling for interference tried to pry the ball out of Betts’ glove, a sheepish grin on his face. The other fan seemed to complain that the ball was inside the seating area and therefore fair game.

Neither got a baseball and didn’t win the argument. They were quickly escorted from their seats by stadium security.

NEW YORK – Freddie Freeman won’t lift the Los Angeles Dodgers to a World Series title alone. But this is about as close as you can get.

Freeman homered for the fourth straight game on Tuesday and crushed a two-run home run in the first inning for the second straight night to quiet the Yankee Stadium crowd before they could even settle down.

This time it was a 300-foot rocket that landed in the right field seats on right-hander Luis Gil’s slider one at-bat after Mookie Betts doubled, and it gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.

It was also a record-breaking sixth consecutive World Series game in which Freeman homered, dating back to the 2021 World Series with Atlanta.

Now the Dodgers really are 27 outs away from a championship.

Five-time World Series champion Paul O’Neill threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 4. But the former All-Star outfielder airmailed former Yankees pitcher AJ Burnett behind the plate.

He asked for a replay.

The second bounced to Burnett.

Play ball!

The Yankees are in a big hole and are eliminated by three games against the Dodgers in the World Series.

Only one team has ever come back from a three-games-to-none deficit in a best-of-seven playoff series: the 2004 Boston Red Sox in the American League Championship Series against the Yankees. And yes, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had a huge stolen base for the Red Sox in the ninth inning of Game 4, which changed the course of history.

But don’t ask him for advice.

“Don’t talk about that,” Roberts said after the Dodgers’ 4-0 victory in Game 3. “Wrong man. Way too early.”

In World Series history, 24 teams led three games to zero prior to this season, and 21 of them completed the sweep with a win in Game 4. The last team to force a Game 5 when it went 3-0 was behind in the World Series was the Cincinnati Reds against the Baltimore Orioles in 1970.

What time is the World Series game tonight?

The first pitch is planned 8:08 PM ET Tuesday at Yankee Stadium.

Location: Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, New York
Date: Tuesday October 29
Time: 8:08 PM ET

Gleyber Torres (R) 2B
Juan Soto (L) RF
Aaron Judge (R) CF
Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L) 3B
Giancarlo Stanton (R) DH
Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B
Anthony Volpe (R) SS
Austin Wells (L) C
Alex Verdugo (L) LF

NEW YORK – They’re playing a baseball game between the lines, but they’re launching an assault on the senses between every pitch, every inning and every sustained pause in the action in this World Series.

Whether it’s celebrities calling for more noise from Ken Jeong in Los Angeles to Flavor Flav in the Bronx, or blaring sirens and pounding organs, Yankee Stadium and its Dodger counterpart turn the volume up to 11, ostensibly to turn on the masses to speak and fill in the gaps in the music. a game that can offer a lot of it.

But on Monday night, in Game 3 of the World Series, the Yankees’ continued futility inspired another, very different auditory sensation. Silence.

After a fifteen-year wait, World Series baseball returned to Yankee Stadium, and 49,368 fans filed into the stadium eager for an exciting moment, the kind that commands an average price of nearly $2,000 on the resale market.

But the Yankees once again proved unable to provide organic juice, their expensive lineup reduced to a series of clappers and failures – and now this World Series is about to end almost as quickly as it began.

– Gabe Lacques

NEW YORK – Freddie Freeman, who requires nearly five hours of treatment each day for his badly sprained ankle, may not have the luxury of ice when he arrives for Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night. The Dodgers are going to need all that ice to ensure they can keep those hundreds of bottles of champagne and beer cans cold for the raucous party they’re planning.

The Dodgers are on the brink of capturing the World Series title after beating the New York Yankees again, 4-2, on Monday in front of a subdued crowd at Yankee Stadium. A sweep gives them more time to prepare for their first World Series parade since 1988. “We want that parade,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “We never got the chance to celebrate with the city of Los Angeles. That’s an incentive. .

“But outside of that you have the chance to become world champion. So we are there. That’s more than enough incentive and motivation.”

Freeman doesn’t need the motivation. What he is doing now, night after night, homer after homer on baseball’s biggest stage, is cementing a legacy that may never be forgotten in Dodgers history.

– Bob Nightingale

NEW YORK – Aaron Boone has tinkered with his lineup a bit, but probably not in the way Yankees Universe envisioned.

Going into a potential elimination World Series Game 4 against the Dodgers on Tuesday night, the Yankees’ manager pulled Giancarlo Stanton from the mop-up spot.

Stanton bats fifth, while left-hitting Jazz Chisholm Jr. moved up to No. 4, after the slumped Aaron Judge – just 1-for-12 in the Series, with a single and seven strikeouts. Left-handed Austin Wells is back in the lineup at catcher, in place of Jose Trevino, as the Dodgers plan a bullpen game to capture a world championship at Yankee Stadium.

“I was going to do it (in Game 3),” Boone said as he moved Stanton down one spot. “But with (Game 4) being a bullpen day, I just wanted to create as much balance as possible. And this is more in line with the lineup I’ve had all year,” Boone said. “We’ll continue with what got us here.”

As for considering possible other lineup changes, Boone said he thought about moving Judge to the top spot, “but then I move Gleyber (Torres) out of there (and he’s) been our catalyst all postseason.

“At the end of the day, it’s Aaron Judge, and I trust his greatness will show up” at third, Boone said.

– Pete Caldera, NorthJersey.com

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