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Freddie Freeman’s Grand Slam Wins Game 1 for Los Angeles Dodgers
What has never happened in a World Series game?
A perfect game? Don Larsen did it in the 1956 World Series for the New York Yankees.
An unassisted triple play? Bill Wambsganss did for YOUR 1920 World Champion Cleveland Indians.
We can cross “walk-off grand slam” off the list, as Freddie Freeman did it last night as the Los Angeles Dodgers opened the World Series with a 6-3 win over the New York Yankees.
PITCHING DUEL
Gerrit Cole of the Yankees and Jack Flaherty of the Dodgers lived up to their ace reputations, as the game was scoreless until the bottom of the fifth inning.
Will Smith put the Dodgers on the board in the fifth with a sacrifice fly to score Enrique Hernandez.
The Yankees gained the lead in the sixth on a two-run homer by Giancarlo Stanton, who has been on fire in the postseason.
Mookie Betts tied the game for the Dodgers in the eighth on another a sacrifice fly.
Gleyber Torres doubled in the ninth as a fan reached over the wall to interfere. Police hustled him out of the building in case replay officials called it a home run. They didn’t, and the game continued.
EXTRA-INNING ACTION
The Yankees broke the 2-2 tie in the 10th innings when Jazz Chisholm Jr. scored on a fielder’s choice grounder by Anthony Volpe.
Freeman sent the Dodgers’ fans into a frenzy with his unprecedented game-winning grand slam, a 409-foot blast to right field off Nestor Cortes.
Game 2 is scheduled for tonight at 8:08 Eastern on Fox. Scheduled to start are Carlos Rodon for the Yankees and Yoshinobu Yamamoto for the Dodgers.
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