The World Series is the biggest event in baseball, and a few years ago ESPN named it one of the greatest series of all time. It’s a series that has been played despite many threats, including the global influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, World War I, America’s involvement in both World Wars and the players’ strike of 1994.
The current World Series is arguably one of the best in recent memory, with the Dodgers taking a commanding 2-0 lead and playing like the team that most expected them to be when the season began. That’s because of their incredible offense, which is putting up an MLB-leading 121 wRC+ and 24 home runs this postseason.
That was never more evident than in Game 4 on Monday, as Los Angeles came back from a five-run deficit to win 7-6 over the Yankees in a game that will go down as one of the most thrilling in World Series history. The big blows were the tying and go-ahead runs, which both came in the eighth inning against Yankee relievers. The tying run was started by Kike Hernandez, and the go-ahead was a two-run single by Freddie Freeman.
It was a dramatic climax to a game that had been punctuated by egregious Yankee misplays, most notably a muffed fly ball by Aaron Judge and a catcher’s interference call on Shohei Ohtani. The final out came on a Blake Treinen fastball that got Giancarlo Stanton to fly out, and the Dodgers are now six outs away from their first championship in 2024.