The Dodgers head into Game 1 of the World Series with a question mark. Jack Flaherty is starting the opener Friday night, despite getting lit up in his last start in Game 5 of the National League Championship Series when he experienced a noticeable drop in velocity. That drop has…
Five Greatest Yankees/Dodgers World Series 1. 1947: Yankees 4, Dodgers 3 2. 1955: Dodgers 4, Yankees 3 3. 1956: Yankees 4, Dodgers 3 4. 1952: Yankees 4, Dodgers 3 5. 1981: Dodgers 4, Yankees 2 Five Greatest Yankees/Dodgers World Series moments 1. Don Larsen throws a perfect game, Game 5,…
The day had gone perfectly, as far as the citizens of Brooklyn were concerned. It was the fifth of October but felt like the Fourth of July, partly because of the unseasonably muggy 85-degree day, mostly because much of the afternoon had been a 2 ½-hour civic celebration. The local…
There are not many people, if any, who have seen more of Anthony Volpe’s swing over the last few years than Austin Wells. So the Yankees catcher knows what it looks like when Volpe is going right, which is what he has seen over the first two rounds of the…
Austin Wells’ most important job of this postseason is what he’s doing behind the plate. His offense, which has been inconsistent at times throughout his rookie season, has been underwhelming or worse in October and it helped land him on the bench in Game 3 of the ALCS against Cleveland…
Stories like the 2004 Boston Red Sox’s championship, the first for the the team since 1918, are compelling for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the narrative of “The Curse of the Bambino” that had all but taken over the discourse about the team over the…
LOS ANGELES — Luis Severino was impressed enough with the Yankees’ October surge that he was willing to amend the half-joking comment he made about his former team during the regular season. The Mets right-hander in July revealed that he tweaked former teammates in a text chain by saying the…
Unlike most of his teammates, Anthony Rizzo has prior World Series experience. The celebration after their ALCS win over Cleveland, though, was just as sweet for Rizzo as it was for anyone else — if for a different reason. When the first baseman was drilled by a pitch on his…
The ball was in the air, soaring on a beautiful parabola toward the deepest part of the ballpark. Off the bat, it seemed Juan Soto wasn’t quite sure. He was taking a good, hard look. But soon he could see what everyone else saw. He could see that a Cleveland…
CLEVELAND — Three relief pitchers that barely figured into the Yankees’ plans when spring training ended helped punch their ticket to the World Series. Tim Hill, Jake Cousins and Luke Weaver combined on the final 14 outs Saturday as the Yankees defeated the Guardians, 5-2, in Game 5 of the…
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