The World Series dream is already a reality. With the depth and power of their poster, the Dodgers put an end to the New York Mets’s journey in 2024 and sealed their ticket to the major stage in baseball, where the Yankees and millions of fans who will be watching the clash between these two mega-gratuities already await them.
The 10-5 win over the Mets eliminated the possibility of another Subway Series in The Big Apple but opened the door to a huge and old rivalry, dating back to that epic in which both teams were settled in New York, one at the Bronx and the other in Brooklyn.
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Suffice it to say that the Dodgers and Yankees have faced each other 11 times in the postseason, but they haven’t seen their faces in an Autumn Classic since 1981 when the Angels imposed themselves on six challenges.
As if that weren’t enough, this clash will have the individual battle of the two almost safe winners of the Most Valuable Player Prize in the American and National Leagues, with Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani, respectively, leading their teams.
A World Series against the Mets would have been equally interesting, but with Los Angeles measuring New York starting next Friday, baseball has its two main markets and two hobbies that will put an incredible taste for this World Series.
Without Freedie Freeman in the lineup due to his ankle injury, the locals expected the regulars Ohtani and Mookie Betts to take over the offensive in this sixth meeting, but it was Tommy Edman and Will Smith who were in charge of bringing the long-range attack with quadrangular two.
Edman was chosen as the Most Valuable Player of the series. Manager Carlos Mendoza hoped to repeat the success of the second game when Sean Manaea dominated the Dodgers, who used a bullpen day in New York’s first triumph, but on this occasion, history was in extremely different terms.
The Angels batsmen squeezed Manaea to the maximum in the first inning and when he took the third out he already accumulated 34 shipments that foreshadowed how short his performance would be, as he would not be able to walk more than two episodes on the mound.
Dave Roberts, driver of the Championship Series champions, again laid hands on the formula of a rosary of relayers, but on this occasion everything was invested in favor of the Californians, supported by a two-run home run by Edman in the third and another huge hit from Smith with another on board in the same chapter.
Not to lose his mind, Ohtani hit two unstoppable and drove a run, but it’s clear that these Dodgers have a scuffle depth that scares and, perhaps, they can get Freeman back from next Friday to have an offensive trident along with Betts, who brought one for the plate.
It’s better that way because the Yankees with Juan Soto, Giancarlo Stanton and Judge are tearing apart everything they find in their way and on Friday they will be present in this same park in search of their 28th World Series.
So the great October Classic between the two “monsters” is ready to fall in love with the world.
