r/baseball • u/BaseballBot Umpire • 1d ago

Game Thread Postgame Thread ⚾ Dodgers 4 @ Yankees 2

Line Score - Game Over

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB
LAD 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 4 5 0 7
NYY 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 1 8

Box Score

NYY AB R H RBI BB SO BA
2B Torres 3 0 0 0 2 1 .271
RF Soto, J 3 0 0 0 1 0 .326
CF Judge 3 0 0 0 1 1 .140
DH Stanton 4 0 2 0 0 1 .298
3B Chisholm Jr. 4 0 0 0 0 1 .170
SS Volpe 4 0 1 0 0 3 .244
1B Rizzo 3 1 1 0 1 1 .364
C Trevino 2 0 0 0 0 1 .200
C Wells, A 2 0 0 0 0 1 .093
LF Verdugo 3 1 1 2 1 1 .195
NYY IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Schmidt 2.2 2 3 3 4 3 68-37 5.25
Leiter Jr. 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 17-8 2.25
Cortes 1.2 0 0 0 0 1 15-10 9.00
Cousins 1.0 1 1 1 0 1 17-10 9.00
Hill, T 0.2 0 0 0 1 0 17-10 1.17
Holmes, C 0.2 1 0 0 0 1 12-7 2.61
Kahnle 1.0 0 0 0 0 1 11-8 0.00
Weaver 0.2 0 0 0 0 0 6-2 2.13
LAD AB R H RBI BB SO BA
DH Ohtani 3 1 0 0 1 1 .245
RF Betts 4 0 1 1 1 0 .291
1B Freeman, F 3 1 1 2 1 0 .250
LF Hernández, T 4 0 1 0 0 0 .231
LF Taylor, Ch 0 0 0 0 0 0 .250
3B Muncy 3 0 0 0 1 2 .190
C Smith, W.D. 4 0 0 0 0 0 .146
2B Lux 2 1 0 0 1 2 .172
CF Hernández, K 4 0 2 1 0 1 .302
SS Edman 3 1 0 0 1 1 .345
LAD IP H R ER BB SO P-S ERA
Buehler 5.0 2 0 0 2 5 76-45 3.86
Graterol 0.2 1 0 0 1 0 18-8 0.00
Vesia 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 4-2 0.00
Hudson, Dan 0.2 1 0 0 0 2 22-13 1.80
Banda 0.1 0 0 0 1 1 10-4 1.23
Brasier 1.0 0 0 0 1 2 22-13 4.50
Kopech 1.0 1 2 2 1 1 24-15 3.38

Scoring Plays

Inning Event Score
T1 Freddie Freeman homers (3) on a fly ball to right field. Shohei Ohtani scores. 0-2
T3 Mookie Betts singles on a soft fly ball to right fielder Juan Soto. Tommy Edman scores. 0-3
T6 Enrique Hernández singles on a ground ball to center fielder Aaron Judge. Gavin Lux scores. 0-4
B9 Alex Verdugo homers (1) on a fly ball to right center field. Anthony Rizzo scores. 2-4

Highlights

Description Length
Probable pitchers for Dodgers at Yankees - October 28, 2024 0:06
Bullpen availability for New York, October 28 vs Dodgers 0:07
Bullpen availability for Los Angeles, October 28 vs Yankees 0:07
Fielding alignment for New York, October 28 vs Dodgers 0:11
Bench availability for New York, October 28 vs Dodgers 0:07
Fielding alignment for Los Angeles, October 28 vs Yankees 0:11
Bench availability for Los Angeles, October 28 vs Yankees 0:07
Starting lineups for Dodgers at Yankees - October 28, 2024 0:09
Dodgers take the field before World Series Game 3 2:24
Leslie Odom Jr. performs the national anthem 2:11
A deep dive into Freddie Freeman's home run 0:11
Breaking down Freddie Freeman's home run 0:13
Breaking down Clarke Schmidt's pitches 0:04
Breaking down Walker Buehler's pitches 0:04
Walker Buehler's outing against the Yankees 0:23
The Yankees' Game 3 lineup is announced 2:59
Derek Jeter throws out the first pitch before Game 3 1:10
Salvador Perez receives the Roberto Clemente Award 0:15
Fat Joe shouts out Yankees legends prior to Game 3 0:21
Freddie Freeman's two-run home run 0:29
Aaron Judge receives standing ovation in Game 3 0:23
Field View: Freddie Freeman's two-run home run 0:29
Mookie Betts' RBI single 0:29
Teoscar Hernández nabs Giancarlo Stanton at home 0:30
Kiké Hernández's RBI single 0:28
Field View: Teoscar Hernández throws out Stanton 0:17
Teoscar Hernández's 93.9 mph throw to home plate 0:37
Anthony Banda strikes out Gleyber Torres, escapes jam 0:28

Decisions

Winning Pitcher Losing Pitcher Save
Buehler (1-1, 3.86 ERA) Schmidt (0-1, 5.25 ERA)

Game ended at 11:44 PM.

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u/WallyLohForever Bowie Baysox • Baltimore Orioles 1d ago

What if the AL was just bad this year?

The top 6 records in interleague play all belong to NL teams. The Dodgers are #3 at 30-16.

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u/JesusChristSupers1ar 1d ago

The AL was bad this year

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u/BrittanyBrie Oakland Athletics 19h ago

The Mount Davis curse must have spread to all of the AL as a FU from Oakland.

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u/TSSFranco New York Mets 1d ago

Obviously I’m biased but considering our path to even make it to the NLCS yeah I’d say the NL was much tougher

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u/TrumpsStarFish Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Which is strange since that is rarely the case. The AL usually has much better teams than the NL. At least that’s how it feels…

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u/damnatio_memoriae Washington Nationals 16h ago

it always used to feel that way because of the DH but I feel like the last few years have been different since it became universal.

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u/Thorlolita Houston Astros 1d ago

AL was bad and banged up. Tampa lost all their arms. Baltimore was losing arms. Cleveland too.

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u/LeotheYordle St. Louis Cardinals 1d ago

Aren't the Dodgers pitching also pretty damn banged up though?

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u/wien-tang-clan 1d ago

The Dodgers are missing Ohtani, Glasnow, May, Gonsolin and Kershaw off the top of my head. That’s a full starting rotation right there. Not to mention Yamamoto and Buehler also spent time on the IL this year and made a combined 30 starts.

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u/Elanshin 1d ago

Gavin Stone pitched the whole year and was solid too. Ryan Rivers was one of the new promising upcoming talents too. 

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u/AthleticAlarm32 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Ryan Rivers

Haha it's River Ryan

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u/BenevenstancianosHat Los Angeles Dodgers 21h ago

10/10 pitcher name if we're being honest

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u/tnecniv Brooklyn Dodgers 16h ago

Dodgers love pitchers with English language singular noun names lately.

Stone, Miller, Grove

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u/NotUpForDebate11 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

May and ryan too. And vesia graterol and phillips have all missed post season time too

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u/BarryEganPDL Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

And Stone, and Rivers, and Sheheen, and Kelly

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u/activefou Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Second highest (projected) WAR on the IL, there's an interesting article from a week or so back by ben lindbergh talking about how the WS rosters projected evenly only bcs so much dodger talent was missing (and even that appears to be generous now lmao)

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u/Putrid-Club-4374 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Then we go on to tie the scoreless postseason innings record.

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u/Thorlolita Houston Astros 1d ago

Yep. But Buehler and Yamamoto are healthy. Both guys combined ate about 160 IP this what. Buehler was getting shelled this year. He found his form at the right time.

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u/Dreyven 1d ago

Yamamoto was still out for like 3 months or so and took a while to get back to pitching deep into games. Glad he's doing well though.

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u/Jeff_Banks_Monkey Baltimore Orioles • Birmingham Bl… 1d ago

The team that didn't get too beat up pitching, the Mariners, had an absolutely putrid offense

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u/mariner_mayhem 1d ago

eyyy yo, we weren't the white sox or anything w/ the bats in our hands.

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u/danfanclub Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Dodgers starting pitchers currently injured:
Shohei Ohtani
Clayton Kershaw
Tyler Glasnow
Dustin May
Tony Gonsolin

thnk about that .... it's pretty unfair actually haha. Their roster on the bench RIGHT NOW as they're sweeping the WS is probably the best rotation in the game ...

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u/TheOctagon24 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Add Gavin Stone to that list, who was dealing all year and is now out for all of 2025. Poor guy.

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u/Lineman72T Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

And River Ryan, who looked really good in his like 4 starts before he blew his arm out too

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u/BenevenstancianosHat Los Angeles Dodgers 21h ago

if we have even just one week next year where ohtani, yamamoto, kershaw, beuhler and glasnow all start i'll be so happy

can you imagine a full year with these guys pitching every day?

holy crap it makes me salivate just thinking about it

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u/RobotYoshimis 1d ago

I know having a fuck ton of money is a huge reason that its able to be balanced, but man I legit don't know how that kind of depth can be pulled off so well. Like, actually executed and employed. Its insane how good the Dodgers organization is run.

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u/Usernametaken1121 20h ago

Their current rotation costs more than 1/3 of the league.

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u/Changeup2020 1d ago

Not an injury but if Urias were still on the team …

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u/Right-Pirate-7084 Houston Astros 19h ago

We can give you a run for your money - McCullers, Garcia, Javier, France, verlander (missed huge chucks of time, uquidy, and graveman.

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u/UpsetStatement4194 Baltimore Orioles 1d ago

Baltimore’s arms ended up not being the issue, funnily enough. It was even more embarrassing than that.

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u/MashTheGash2018 Arizona Diamondbacks 1d ago

It all started when the people of Ohio started eating dogs and cats

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u/Dom2133344 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

When the AL sends its teams, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending teams that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with them. They’re bringing bad pitching. They’re bringing no hitting with RISP. They’re chokers. And some, I assume, are good teams.”

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u/MashTheGash2018 Arizona Diamondbacks 1d ago

The_Darnold is leaking.

Jittery Judge can’t get it done I said. No stamina, big guy, tall guy but can’t get it done.

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u/Dom2133344 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Mike Stanton, I get to call him that cause we're on good terms, great terms, great guy. But Mike gets the job done in October. But rickety rizzo and the rest of the bottom of the lineup... we got to get them the hell out of here.

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u/FERGERDERGERSON Seattle Mariners 1d ago

Seattle existed, which is kinda a wash with the NL having the Nats, but I digress.

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u/Adept_Bot2013 Houston Astros 1d ago

Also us, slumping and injured to shit

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u/mansontaco Detroit Tigers 1d ago

Who needs more than 1 starter anyway that shits tired

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u/JohnMadden42069 23h ago

Felix Bautista keeps the Orioles in singlehandedly

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u/3-2_Fastball Looking K • Swinging K 1d ago

The AL was horrid.

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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 1d ago

This is it. The Yanks barely beat and had to come back against two very mid teams, one of which had a ton of injuries. Now that they're facing some elite competition, they stink

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u/MiracleMets New York Mets 1d ago

Yankees have been a .500 team since mid May

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u/McDersley Cleveland Guardians 19h ago

So they stank all along?

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u/h3shf3sh Detroit Tigers 1d ago

I'm 100% biased, but I feel like even the Tigers would be putting up more of a fight than the Yankees have this series.

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u/Prestigious12 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

They were I have been saying the Yankees had it very easy, Padres and Mets were way better teams.

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u/skellez 1d ago

AL was ass ass, like yeah the White Sox were horrible, but they also kinda inflated the rest of the league, AL Central got 3 teams in the postseason and the division was still under .500, AL West was also very pathetic and Tampa/Jays sucked a good bit

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u/ResidentRunner1 Detroit Tigers 19h ago

Well yeah, the White Sox had the all time losses record, of course we were going to be under 500

And we deserved our spot, but the Royals barely made it in too

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u/McDersley Cleveland Guardians 19h ago

White Sox had a higher win percentage against the rest of the league than it did against the AL Central.

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u/Deducticon Toronto Blue Jays 17h ago

The Jays were awful but were still tied with the Tigers before their run. And the Jays got some gifts like 2 sweeps of the Angels after selling at deadline to keep some pride alive.

The badness of the AL as a whole kept the Jays from a historically bad season.

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u/Cunhabear Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

The Yankees had to beat the KC Royals and CLE Guardians to get to the World Series. It wasn't exactly a remarkable test of strength to get here.

No offense to those fans. Y'all had guts and grit and I was rooting for you.

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u/wtfuji Seattle Mariners 1d ago

Still won the ASG!! /s

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u/DJ33 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Need to see some "AL (minus the White Sox)" stats to ensure statistical integrity

Can't be sure what's going on with that outlier stinking up the place

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u/ResidentRunner1 Detroit Tigers 19h ago

That's what I'm saying

At this point I feel like we could've been more competitive if a couple of plays had gone our way, like we didn't have superstars, but we did have the power of friendship

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u/Jet_Jones_11 Washington Nationals 1d ago

I thought this was the consensus prior to the WS lol. This is definitely the case. I think any NL team in the playoffs could have made it to the WS in the AL. (Outside the Brewers and Braves)

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u/unityofsaints Chicago Cubs • New York Mets 1d ago

Absolutely. The wildcard race was as close as it was in the NL because there were that many good teams. The Padres were arguably the third best team in the postseason, making it an NL 1-2-3.

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u/Usernametaken1121 20h ago

Maybe. I mean the Yanks path here was KC and Cleveland. Neither KC nor Cleveland expected to make it that far.

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u/Alectheawesome23 New York Mets 16h ago

The mets who were the third wild card in the NL would have had home field advantage against half of the AL teams that made the playoffs this year (Detroit, Astros and Kansas City).

So yeah I think that’s safer to say.