After an instant classic in the first match, the Los Angeles Dodgers And New York Yankees are back for the second match of the 2024 World Series on Saturday evening.

Freddie Freeman achieved the first grand slam in World Series history to win Game 1 for the Dodgers, who took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-seven Fall Classic. Freeman’s historic 10th-inning blast capped a thrilling game at Dodgers Stadium which featured a little bit of everything, the first World Series meeting between the two historic franchises since 1981.

“This is as good as it gets,” Freeman told reporters after the game.

Hoping to even the series, $162 million remains Carlos Rodon takes the mound for the Yankees, while the $325 million rookie right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto starts Game 2 for the Dodgers in Los Angeles.

Follow live updates from Saturday’s showdown:

World Series Game 2 Time: Dodgers vs. Yankees

The first pitch on Saturday is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. ET.

Where to watch Yankees vs. Dodgers: World Series TV channel

World Series Game 2 starting pitchers

• Yankees: Carlos Rodón (16-9, 3.96 ERA) – Signed for $162 million during the 2022-23 offseason, the left-hander has a 4.40 ERA — but a 2.12 FIP — in three postseason starts, striking out 22 in 14 ⅓ innings with just one walk.

• Dodgers: Yoshinobu Yamamoto (7-2, 3.00 ERA) – The $325 million Japanese import made three starts in the 2024 postseason, posting a 5.11 ERA in 12 ⅓ innings.

Yankees lineup today: Game 2 of the World Series

1. Gleyber Torres (R) 2B

2. Juan Soto (L) RF

3. Aaron Judge (R) CF

4. Giancarlo Stanton (right) DH

5. Jazz Chisholm Jr. (L) 3B

6. Anthony Rizzo (L) 1B

7. Anthony Volpe (D) SS

8. Austin Wells (L)C

9. Alex Verdugo (L) LF

Dodgers lineup today: Game 2

1. Shohei Ohtani (L) DH

2. Mookie Betts (R) RF

3. Teoscar Hernández (D) LF

4. Freddie Freeman (L) 1B

5. Tommy Edman (S) CF

6. Enrique Hernández (R) 2B

7. Max Muncy (L) 3B

8. Will Smith (right) C

9. Miguel Rojas (R) SS

Location of Game 2 of the World Series

Game 2 on Saturday night will be played at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. The World Series will travel across the country to Yankee Stadium for Games 3, 4 and 5 – with the Dodgers set to host Games 6 and 7 if necessary.

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World Series umpires for Game 2

• home plate:Andy Fletcher

• First base:Doug Eddings

• Second goal:Mark Ripperger

• Third base: Chad Fairchild

• Left field: Todd Tichenor (team leader)

• Right field:Carlos Torres

• Reserve:Mark Carlson

Freddie Freeman’s Grand Slam: ‘The Greatest Baseball Moment I’ve Ever Witnessed’

LOS ANGELES — It was Kirk Gibson all over again.

It was Roy Hobbs in “The Natural.”

It was classic Hollywood.

“This may be,” said Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, “the greatest baseball moment I’ve ever witnessed.”

Freddie Freemanwho could barely walk a week ago due to his severe ankle sprain, who left the team this summer and didn’t know if he would return with his 3 year old son fighting for his life, is entered play Friday night in front of a screaming crowd of 52,394 and produced one of the most dramatic events in World Series history.

With a swing of the batFreeman created a memory that may never be forgotten in Dodgers history, a two-out grand slam in the 10th inning, leading the Dodgers to a 6-3 victory over the New York Yankees in Game 1 of the World Series. .

–Bob Nightengale

Nestor Cortés reflects on abandoning first Grand Slam match

LOS ANGELES – Like Freddie Freeman After transforming Dodger Stadium into Blue Heaven on Friday night, Nestor Cortes made the long, difficult march to what has often been hell for those on the wrong side of history.

Here’s what it’s like for home runs, like Freeman’s the first match-ending grand slam of its kind in the first match of World Series: There’s simply no avoiding the physical act of trudging through someone else’s party to your own demon dungeon.

So after Freeman destroyed the first pitch, Cortes threw him into the top 10^th inning, sending it 409 feet into a wild right-field pavilion at Dodger Stadium, turning a one-run New York Yankees lead into a Dodgers win 6-3Cortés was angry.

And then he got pragmatic, immediately sitting down and watching a replay of the fateful pitch — a fastball that should have been two or three inches away, too.

And then he embraced perspective, choosing not to reflect on the fact that his name was forever enshrined in baseball lore, a permanent link to Ralph Branca And Dennis Eckersley And Mariano Rivera And Michael Williamspitchers who may have excelled but quit at the worst possible time.

– Gabé Lacques

Walker Buehler will start Game 3 for the Dodgers

Before Game 2 on Saturday, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts announced that Walker Buehler would start Game 3 at Yankee Stadium on Monday night.

“We like Walker in big games. The road is not going to faze him,” Roberts told reporters. “It also allows him to potentially be available for a Game 7.”

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