A clash of the Titans. A meeting of Goliaths. An old-fashioned, heavyweight bout.
In the build-up to this year’s World Series, there was no cliché too excessive for the moment. No superlative too grand to oversell the matchup. Dodgers vs.
Yankees . Shohei Ohtani vs. Aaron Judge .
Baseball’s annual Fall Classic, under a spotlight like few recent others. And then, in Game 1 on Friday night, it began in the most dramatic way possible. With one 10th-inning swing, Freddie Freeman etched his name in Dodgers’ October lore.
The team trailing by a run in the 10th inning, Freeman came to the plate with the bases loaded and two out. He got a first-pitch fastball over the inner half of the plate. Then, he delivered a historic and remarkable swing, launching a walk-off grand slam deep into the right-field pavilion.
It was the first walk-off grand slam in World Series history. Final score: Dodgers 6, Yankees 3 . A World Series of epic proportions, kicked off with a moment that will be remembered for ages.
The 10th inning began ominously for the Dodgers, with the Yankees jumping in front on the back of Jazz Chisholm’s aggressive base-running. After lining a one-out single off top Dodgers reliever Blake Treinen, Chisholm broke for second with Anthony Rizzo at the plate and stole the base with relative ease. After the Dodgers intentionally walked Rizzo in a 3-and-0 count, Chisholm was on the move again an at-bat later, getting a huge jump off Treinen’s slow delivery to steal third.