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    • Yankees vs. Dodgers Game 2 score, live updates: Los Angeles looks to take a 2-0 lead after Freddie Freeman’s epic game winner
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    Yankees vs. Dodgers Game 2 score, live updates: Los Angeles looks to take a 2-0 lead after Freddie Freeman’s epic game winner

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    If the Yankees and Dodgers can come close to matching the drama and excitement of Game 1 in this World Series, baseball fans will rejoice. Freddie Freeman’s epic walk-off grand slam that lifted the Dodgers to a 6-3 victory and a 1-0 series lead was the first walk-off grand slam in the World Series, and it came on the very first pitch from Nestor. Cortes threw at him.

    While the good news for the Dodgers is that they are up 1-0 in the World Series, thanks to Freeman’s epic Kirk Gibson impression (with Joe Davis providing his Vin Scully nod), the good news for the Yankees is that it only counts for one, and New York can still take home field advantage in the series with a win on Saturday.

    Carlos Rodón (1-1, 4.40 ERA, 14.1 IP 22 K, 1 BB in 2024 postseason) will start for the Yankees against Yoshinobu Yamamoto (1-0, 5.11 ERA, 12.1 IP, 11 K, 4 BB) for the Dodgers.

    • Time: 8:08 PM ET

    • Location: Dodger Stadium | Los Angeles

    • TV channel: Fox

    • Streaming: Fox Sports App, Fubo

    Live42 updates

    • Another scoreless inning for Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who now has 72 pitches through five. The top of the lineup is scheduled next inning, though, so we’ll see how cautiously the Dodgers want to play the third time in the order.

    • Cousins ​​gets Ohtani to ground out to end the inning. It’s still 4-1 Dodgers through four.

    • Stats are still coming in on Freddie Freeman.

    • Will Smith welcomes Jake Cousins ​​with a double against the center field wall. Big hit there because it means Shohei Ohtani will likely face righty Cousins, even though Cousins ​​is good on both sides of the plate.

    • Rodón’s final line: 3 1/3 innings, 6 H, 4 ER, 0 BB, 3 K, 3 HR, 63 pitches. Just a bad matchup for a solid pitcher.

    • Rodón takes out Muncy and that will do it for him. Jake Cousins, who took over last night’s loss with a single and a walk on three batters, takes over.

      The Yankees bullpen now has 5 2/3 innings to cover, which is probably not what Aaron Boone envisioned tonight.

    • The Yankees do indeed keep Rodón in for the fourth inning. Perhaps not a surprise with the back half of the lineup scheduled, but you could also see them going after left-hander Max Muncy.

    • Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws a scoreless fourth inning, and just as importantly, he only needs 10 pitches to do so. He’s thrown 62, and the Dodgers would certainly like it if he can go longer than his usual, say, five innings.

    • Homers reach Rodón

      Even when Carlos Rodón’s stuff looks sharp and in the zone, he is especially prone to ball flight – a dangerous weakness against a team like the Dodgers, which has so many hitters capable of hitting the ball with authority to hit the air.

      Rodón’s toughest pitch of the night – a 90 mph, 1-0 to Teoscar Hernandez – was blasted to center for a home run for Freddie Freeman, followed by winning a six-pitch battle that ended with another home run , putting LA at 4-1.

      Aaron Boone will soon have to make some tough decisions about which bullpen arms to deploy if he hopes to keep this game close.

    • Carlos Rodón comes out of the inning and we’ll see if they send him back to the bottom of the Dodgers lineup before he reaches the third time through the order. He has 59 pitches through three.

      Big problem for him here: He usually relies on his transition against right-handed hitters like Edman and Hernández, but the Dodgers had the best wOBA in baseball against offspeed pitches during the regular season.

    • And now a double from Tommy Edman. The Dodgers have Carlos Rodón on the ropes.

    • Dodgers 4, Yankees 1

      Freddie Freeman went to the World Series without an extra base hit this postseason. He now has two home runs and a triple in a game and a half after going back-to-back with Hernández. Absolutely huge for the Dodgers.

    • Dodgers 3, Yankees 1

      Teoscar Hernández responds. Rodón threw a 90-mph fastball high, and the 2024 Home Run Derby champion hit it to right. We see a little more power than in Game 1.

    • “We’re going to run him as far as we can” — Dave Roberts on Yoshinobu Yamamoto, before admitting the game could come down to the bullpens.

    • Soto wins the second fight with Yamamoto

      Juan Soto vs. Yoshinobu Yamamoto was one of the more intriguing matchups heading into Game 2, as Soto wasn’t in the lineup when Yamamoto was excellent against the Yankees in the Bronx in June.

      Yamamoto got Soto to ground out in the first inning, but that required seven pitches, so Soto got an early look at Yamamoto’s fastball, curveball and splitter. Another lengthy battle ensued in the third inning, and this time Soto took Yamamoto’s sixth pitch—a 90-mph heater down and in—to right field to tie the game.

      Breaking news: This Soto guy is pretty good at hitting.

    • That was a straight miss for Yamamoto against Soto. Yamamoto’s command wasn’t great today, but his stuff was good enough to keep him out of trouble, until…

    • Aaron Judge flies out to end the inning, and we’re tied heading into the bottom of the third. Yamamoto has 52 pitches.

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