Freddie Freeman's walk-off grand slam gives Dodgers Game 1 World Series win vs. Yankees

Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman deed a walk-off expansive slam successful nan 10th inning connected of Game 1 of nan World Series connected Friday to springiness his squad a 1-0 bid lead complete nan the New York Yankees. 

Freeman came to nan sheet aft Mookie Betts was intentionally walked to load nan bases. And against Yankees pitcher Nestor Cortes, who hadn't sounded successful weeks, Freeman cranked nan first transportation he saw into heavy correct section to triumph nan game. 

It marked a climactic ending to 1 of nan astir highly-anticipated MLB games successful caller years. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Freddie Freeman, center, left, celebrates astatine location sheet aft hitting a game-winning expansive slam against nan New York Yankees during nan 10th inning successful Game 1 of nan shot World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

Both starters, Gerrit Cole of nan Yankees and Jack Flaherty of nan Dodgers, sounded 4 scoreless innings to commencement nan game. Flaherty put connected immoderate baserunners, and Cole had truthful heavy alert balls to nan track, but it was each zeroes done nan first 4 frames. 

Cole was nan first to crack, giving up an RBI connected a sac alert to Dodgers catcher Will Smith, who scored Kike Hernandez to put LA up 1-0 successful nan bottommost of nan fifth. 

Then came Giancarlo Stanton. The Yankees seasoned slugger, who has taken nan lead successful MLB's all-time database of astir location runs per at-bat this postseason, deed his 5th homer of nan playoffs. A towering two-run changeable that arched majestically into near section put New York up 2-1 successful nan sixth. 

New York Yankees' Giancarlo Stanton celebrates his two-run location tally against nan Los Angeles Dodgers during nan sixth inning successful Game 1 of nan shot World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, successful Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)

From there, some team's bullpens kept nan bats astatine bay until Shohei Ohtani came up pinch a booming one-out double successful nan eighth inning. Then he snuck complete to 3rd guidelines erstwhile nan propulsion backmost successful sewage distant from nan Yankees infielders. 

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So, nan Yankees turned to their de-facto person Luke Weaver to travel successful for a imaginable five-out save. Weaver, a 31-year-old journeyman who was unexpectedly thrust into New York's person domiciled up of nan playoffs, became 1 of MLB's biggest stories of nan postseason, signaling 4 of 5 saves and pitching 2 innings for nan triumph successful Game 5 of nan ALCS to nonstop nan Yankees to nan World Series. 

But pinch Ohtani already astatine third, Weaver gave up a alert shot to Mookie Betts, allowing Ohtani to people and necktie nan crippled astatine two. 

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Los Angeles Dodgers' Kiké Hernández (8) celebrates successful nan dugout aft scoring against nan New York Yankees during nan 5th inning successful Game 1 of nan shot World Series, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, successful Los Angeles.  (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez)

In nan apical of nan ninth, a instrumentality caught a Gleyber Torres alert shot to near center, to put Torres astatine 2nd guidelines connected instrumentality interference. Then Dodgers head Dave Roberts opted to intentionally locomotion Juan Soto to bring Aaron Judge to nan sheet pinch 2 connected and 2 out. 

And Judge, who has struggled successful nan playoffs truthful far, came up quiet successful what was arguably nan biggest at-bat of his profession to that point, pinch a regular pop-up. 

Then, Weaver came backmost connected for nan Yankees successful nan ninth and vanished disconnected a 1-2-3 inning to nonstop nan crippled to extras.

Jazz Chisholm sewage connected base, stole second, stole third, past came location connected an Anthony Volpe crushed shot to springiness nan Yankees a 3-2 lead. 

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Then came nan bottommost of nan 10th and Freeman's location run.

It was nan first World Series crippled betwixt nan storied franchises since Oct. 28, 1981, erstwhile nan Dodgers won 9-2 to clinch nan bid astatine Yankee Stadium. It was nan first postseason crippled betwixt them successful Los Angeles October 25 of that year, erstwhile nan Dodgers won 2-1, which shifted nan momentum of that series.

The 2 teams will meet again astatine Dodger Stadium connected Saturday nighttime for Game 2. The crippled tin beryllium seen connected FOX.

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