The World Series between the Dodgers and Yankees has created huge expectations. Game 1 starts at 8:08 pm ET this Friday at Dodger Stadium.
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The Los Angeles Dodgers will host the New York Yankees starting this Friday in a Fall Classic which has been played 11 times before, although the last time was in 1981.
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Friday, October 25
• Game 1: Yankees at Dodgers, 8:08 pm ET (FOX in the US/ESPN and Disney+ in Mexico).
Saturday 26 October
• Game 2: Yankees at Dodgers, 8:08 p.m. ET (FOX in the US/ESPN and Disney+ in Mexico).
Monday 28 October
• Game 3: Dodgers at Yankees, 8:08 p.m. ET (FOX in the US/ESPN and Disney+ in Mexico).
Tuesday 29 October
• Game 4: Dodgers at Yankees, 8:08 p.m. ET (FOX in the US/ESPN and Disney+ in Mexico).
Wednesday, October 30*
• Game 5*: Dodgers at Yankees, 8:08 p.m. ET (FOX in the US/ESPN and Disney+ in Mexico).
Friday, November 1*
• Game 6: Yankees at Dodgers, 8:08 p.m. ET (FOX in the US/ESPN and Disney+ in Mexico).
Saturday, November 2*
• Game 7: Yankees at Dodgers, 8:08 p.m. ET (FOX in the US/ESPN and Disney+ in Mexico).
* If necessary
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“This series really is global,” the Dodgers manager said Thursday, Dave Roberts. “It’s a unique series where you could argue that the Yankees and the Dodgers on a global scale are the most followed, most supported and most visible teams.”
But it’s not just the two baseball franchises that are the most recognized in the world or those that have two of the five most expensive payrolls in the entire world. baseball.
It will also be the fifth clash since the current fixture format was adopted in 1995. postseason with wild card teams, in which the two teams with the best regular season records, the Dodgers (98-64) and the Yankees (94-68), collide.
“Dodgers-Yankees, two pillar franchises of this sport, with a great history for a long time,” said the Yankees manager Aaron Boone this Thursday. “These two teams have met in many Fall Classics. It is sure to be special, it will attract many people around the country and around the world, more than usual.”
Yes, it will be the twelfth World Series between the two teams, from when the Dodgers still lived in Brooklyn until many years later, when it looked like a Hollywood versus Broadway series.
“We just have to focus on baseball,” Yankees outfielder Juan Soto said in the middle of the Press Day that brought hundreds of journalists to the Dodger Stadium on Thursday.
“We know that this series will attract much more than any other. But we have to see it as another series to reach the goal.”
“We are preparing to face a series with a chance to win the Major League championship,” he said. “That’s the one thing we players should care about.”
It will be the World Series of Most Valuable Playersin salary and sports level. Five players combined between the two teams with past MVP nominations: Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts and Shohei Ohtani, for the Dodgers. Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton, for New York.
It is also likely that two of them will be named MVP this season: Ohtani sa The National Leagueand Judge in the American League. It will be the first time ever that two players with at least 50 home runs will face each other in the World Series and it will be their first on this stage for both.
“This is where the real fun begins,” said the Judge. “I’m sure I feel how special it is to play in the World Series,” Ohtani said.
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The Yankees will have their star starter Gerrit Cole, still in charge, on the mound for the first game Cy Young Awardwho will play in his second World Series after the one he lost to the Houston Astros in 2018.
“The challenge is trying to be confident with every pitch,” Cole said. “You know they’re deadly with their swing. So you have to give every pitch a chance to be in the right spot. And if they hit the ball, you have to learn to not let it happen again.”
The Dodgers will send the World Series debut of Jack Flaherty to the mound, the pitcher who has had to assume the responsibility of essentially being the first person in the rotation since arriving at the trade deadline from the Detroit Tigers.
“It’s about going out there and hitting your pitches in the (strike) zone,” Flaherty said. “You have to concentrate on hitting with a batter. You have to try to calm down and focus on the process of each pitch. Those guys (Yankees) don’t forgive mistakes.”
Both managers agreed that everything was behind them and that the time had come to play the best baseball.
“We know how good the Dodgers are,” Boone admitted. “Both teams have the ability to be really potent on offense. In the end it’s going to come down to execution. Sure, it’s going to be crucial for pitchers to be able to control offenses. But in the end it’s all about execution.”
“It should be a great series,” said the Yankees manager. “We will be ready to play.”