World Series Game 4 highlights

On October 30, 2024By Littum

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

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

The question is how much pride resides in the Yankees.

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

That approach closed out the Dodgers’ last series, a six-game conquest of the New York Mets in the NL Championship Series. If the Dodgers’ pitching is back on track, they’ll leave a champagne-soaked carpet in the Bronx and pack a shiny, flag-adorned trophy for the trip home.

– Gabe Lacques

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NEW YORK – No matter how expensive World Series tickets are, that doesn’t give fans the right to interfere with the field of play.

Nor pry the ball from Mookie Betts.

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 a foul pop fly by New York Yankees leadoff hitter Gleyber Torres in Game 4 of the World Series on Tuesday night .

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

A fan sitting next to the one who called the disturbance tried to pry the ball out of Betts’ glove with a sheepish grin on his face. The other fan seemed to complain that the ball was within the seating area, thus fair game.

Neither got a baseball nor won the argument. They were quickly escorted from their seats by stadium security.

NEW YORK – Freddie Freeman is not alone in lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers to a World Series title. But that’s as close as you can get.

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

This time, it was a 343-foot missile into the right-field seats off right-hander Luis Gil’s slider, one hit after Mookie Betts doubled, and it gave the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.

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

Now the Dodgers are truly 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 sent former Yankees pitcher AJ Burnett behind the plate.

He asked for a re-do.

The other bounced to Burnett.

Play ball!

The Yankees are in a big hole and face elimination down three games to none to 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 Boston Red Sox in 2004 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 that changed the course of history.

But don’t ask him for advice.

“Don’t talk about it,” Roberts said after the Dodgers’ 4-0 win in Game 3. “Wrong guy. Way too soon.”

In World Series history, prior to this season, 24 teams went three games to none and 21 of them completed the sweep with a win in Game 4. The last team to force a Game 5 when they were down 3-0 in the World Series in 1970 the Cincinnati Reds were against the Baltimore Orioles.

What time is the World Series game tonight?

First pitch is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday.

Location: Yankee Stadium in Bronx, New York
Date: Tuesday 29 Oct
Time: 8:08 p.m. 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 play a baseball game between the lines, but stage an assault on the senses between every pitch, every inning, every sustained break 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 engage the masses and fill in the gaps in a game that can provide many of them.

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

After a 15-year wait, World Series baseball returned to Yankee Stadium, and 49,368 fans filed into the ballpark, eager for an electric moment, the kind that inspired an average price of nearly $2,000 on the resale market.

But the Yankees again proved unable to deliver juice organically, their expensive lineup reduced to a series of flails and failures — and now this World Series is ending almost as quickly as it began.

– Gabe Lacques

NEW YORK — Freddie Freeman, who needs 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 make sure they keep the hundreds of bottles of champagne and cans of beer cold for the wild party they’re planning.

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

“But outside of that, you have an opportunity to become world champion. So we’re right there. That’s more than enough incentive and motivation.”

Freeman doesn’t need the motivation. What he’s 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 Nightengale

NEW YORK – Aaron Boone has messed around with his lineup a bitbut probably not as the Yankees Universe envisioned.

In a possible World Series Game 4 shutout against the Dodgers on Tuesday night, the Yankees’ manager has pushed Giancarlo Stanton out of the cleanup spot.

Stanton bats fifth, with lefty Jazz Chisholm Jr. moved up to No. 4 after the slumping Aaron Judge — just 1-for-12 in the series, with a single and seven strikeouts. Left-hander Austin Wells is back in the lineup at catcher in place of Jose Trevino as the Dodgers plan a bullpen battle to win a World Series at Yankee Stadium.

“I wanted to do it (in Game 3),” Boone said of sliding Stanton down a spot. “But since (Game 4) was a bullpen day, I just wanted to create as much balance as I could. And this is more in line with, in a way, the lineup I’ve had all year,” Boone said. “We’re rolling with what got us here.”

As for considering any other lineup changes, Boone said he considered moving Judge up to the leadoff spot, “but then I’m moving Gleyber (Torres) from 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 emerge” at the No. 3 spot, Boone said.

—Pete Caldera, NorthJersey.com

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