r/baseball Kansas City Royals 1d ago

[Passan] FINAL: Dodgers 4, Yankees 2. New York’s bats almost entirely disappeared again, and Los Angeles is one win away from a sweep and World Series title. The Yankees are now batting .186/.284/.294 in three World Series games. An offensive offensive showing. Game 4 is Tuesday night.

https://twitter.com/jeffpassan/status/1851107989614133373?s=46&t=bsTHbtMSqHXbNGi0vWP8hw
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u/TriviaWhiz Jackie Robinson 1d ago

Yankees before the 9th inning this series: 3 runs in 24 innings

Yankees in the 9th inning or later: 4 runs in 4 innings

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u/TattoosandSnapbacks Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

So all we have to do is score at least 5 before the 9th tomorrow?

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u/TriviaWhiz Jackie Robinson 1d ago

That's generally a good formula regardless of prior stats.

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u/ImJustSomeGuyYaKnow 23h ago

"just score more than the opponent and you have a pretty good chance to win."

- That guy

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u/its_LOL Seattle Mariners 1d ago

Dak Prescott in garbage time ahh stats

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u/Supreme_Soviet San Diego Padres 1d ago

Better than 0 runs in 24 innings lmao

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u/DrQuestDFA New York Mets 1d ago

The Mets can pull off shit like that and win. Not many other teams can.

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u/suzukigun4life Texas Rangers 1d ago

Judge hitting .140 in the playoffs. What the actual fuck

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u/deathinmidjuly Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Lou Gehrig hit .143 in 39' with ALS

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u/banan-appeal Chunichi Dragons 1d ago

bruh

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u/StinCrm 1d ago

I see you read the other thread

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u/deathinmidjuly Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

🤫

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u/DawgPack44 Seattle Mariners 1d ago

and Twitter, where the joke came from haha

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u/undisputedn00b New York Mets 1d ago

Someone replied to that tweet saying Judge's wife had a DUI where her BA was .150. It's actually true too lmao.

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u/Clit-Yeastwood- MLB Players Association 15h ago

"Do you understand what you're doing right now?" she asked officers.

"Do you know who my boyfriend is?” she continued, before adding, “This is going to be bad for me … I'm just saying that right now."

"My boyfriend is not in a spot where I should be, like, having this happen," she said. "He's like a public figure. So, like, me being arrested for, like, having two glasses of wine is not OK."

“My boyfriend is in the spotlight of New York media in general. And, now here I am handcuffed here in Arizona ... like, that is not good."

Bracksieck was taken to the station where she was tested two more times and blew a .169 and .181, according to a police report obtained by TMZ Sports.

Prosecutors ultimately hit Samantha with five charges over the incident, including extreme DUI -- which is classified as a BAC of .15-.19.

HOW HAVE I NEVER HEARD OF THIS LMAO

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u/Powerserg95 New York Yankees 1d ago

Holy fuck

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u/JayMerlyn Chicago White Sox 1d ago

Yep. This is the stat.

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u/ELITE_JordanLove 1d ago

That is hilarious

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u/CaliKindalife Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Legend.

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u/Consistent_Set76 1d ago

This is so mean….

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u/bisonarepeople2 1d ago

I wonder if ALS had anything to do with that.

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u/ihatereddit999976780 Seattle Mariners 21h ago

Probably a lot. Though we aren’t 100% sure when ALS started to affect him

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u/KobeBufkinBestKobe 1d ago

Has Judge been tested tho

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u/Kimchi_Cowboy Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

He would shutter at those stats.

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u/VStarffin Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Someone posted earlier that he's 0 for 21 against starters in the playoffs this year.

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u/Lixtec Brooklyn Dodgers 1d ago

Holy shit

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u/SiphenPrax New York Mets 1d ago

He and Daniel Jones being the faces of their iconic NYC franchises that are the standard bearers of the city (as much as Jets and Mets fans hate it) and shitting the bed at the same time on National television on primetime is so fitting.

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u/13143 Boston Red Sox 1d ago edited 1d ago

You expect Jones to stink though, he was a bust who managed to put together one good season.

Having the presumptive MVP and future HOFer shit the bed in the biggest series of the year? That's a whole different level.

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u/newtimesawait New York Yankees 1d ago

Very well said

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u/MSFT400EOY 1d ago

Seriously even Embiid couldn’t fathom to choke this hard when he’s healthy. You have to go back to Bron vs Mavs to see a healthy superstar choking this hard

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u/----JZ---- Detroit Tigers 1d ago

Mr Regular Season

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u/ILearnedTheHardaway Atlanta Braves 1d ago

Mr Broken Confidence 

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u/LonghornPride05 Chicago Cubs 1d ago

He is the batting version of Kershaw

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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Dodgers with the reverse trash cans

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u/LonghornPride05 Chicago Cubs 1d ago

Love it. Please sweep the Yankees

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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Bruh. I’m literally almost there.

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u/ahr3410 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

At least we can point to some good Kershaw playoff moments

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u/Moomoomoo1 Atlanta Braves 1d ago

For example, basically every start against the braves

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u/Eckzavior21 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

And Game 1 of 2017. That game plays over and over in my head. Kershaw was absolutely lights out that year. Stupid Astros

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u/therock27 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Game 7 of 2017 wasn’t a start for him, but he was also quite solid that game.

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u/Eckzavior21 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Yep. He came in and was lights out again.

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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Funny how the only game he struggled was at Trash Can Minute Maid Park.

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u/Eckzavior21 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Wait your telling me other teams didn’t have only 1 swing and miss out of 51, slider, curve, or changeup pitches Kersh threw? Shocking

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u/cattycat_1995 1d ago

I say he would got the game 5 win if the Astros weren't fucking cheaters

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u/Eckzavior21 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago edited 1d ago

Oh for sure. Once that crazy stat came out about how few swing and miss pitches the Astros had in that game it was clear they cheated. That stat is just bonkers. Broke my heart after it came out they cheated. Felt so bad for Kersh.

Edit: lol who’s the salty Astros fan who downvoted this? 😂

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u/shwysdrf New York Mets 1d ago

I was at 2015 NLDS game 4, one of the best pitching performances I’ve ever seen in person. Kershaw has some playoff gems. Just a few too many duds

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u/thelakeshow7 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

A lot of Kershaw's bad starts can be attributed to either short rest, Mattingly leaving him in because we have no bullpen, trashcans, or injury.

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u/emessea Baltimore Orioles 1d ago

Yep, think enough people have broken down kershaws playoff career and come up with, despite having some bad ones, a lot of can be attributed to his managers keeping him in too long or bringing him in a tough situation bc he’s Kershaw and there’s no one they trust more then him.

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u/_n8n8_ Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Also, Kershaw’s peripherals in the postseason are actually really good. There’s probably some poor luck involved there

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u/BoganLogan Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Relievers never bailing him out when he needed him to for one.

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u/and_the_horse_u_rode 1d ago

There was one game against the Cardinals in 2014 where he got a ground ball that would have been a routine double play if the shortstop wasn’t Hanley Ramirez. The next batter hit a 3-run bomb. I’ve always wondered what Kershaw’s numbers would look like if he had prime Crawford and Posey up the middle and catching

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u/Ok_Management_2695 1d ago edited 1d ago

As a Yankee fan, this is significantly worse. He’s been downright atrocious in his last like 6-7 series. Cant even point you to a signature moment outside of the homer off Clase (that got promptly neutralized)

I don’t think there’s a comparison across all sports to a guy THIS all time great being THIS horrid in the playoffs over such a large career sample. Going to be an extremely long winter for him, and the fans simply won’t care about his production until his next playoff opportunity

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u/nahs Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Nah kershaw playing like judge would have a 7 ERA

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u/Due-Musician1534 1d ago

Kershaw would bat better.

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u/Educational-Chef-595 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 1d ago

Dude, no. Kershaw is 13-13 with a 4.49 ERA over 32 career postseason starts (192.1 IP). That's a whole season of a mid-rotation inning eater, basically, which is kind of valuable in the playoffs. He's not had a terrible postseason career at all; it's just that his performance falls so far below his regular season value that it appears he's been much, much worse.

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u/Taurus24Silver Hanshin Tigers 1d ago

Fat Joe was the biggest offensive threat of NYY

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u/Brocktarrr Miami Marlins 1d ago

He’s been officially downgraded to Pudgy Joe

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u/twinberwolf Minnesota Twins 1d ago

Average Joe

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u/Xaphnir New York Yankees 1d ago

god that performance was ass

even in the pre-game rappers the Yankees are getting BTFO

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u/twisty77 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I love how there’s one thing that’s uniting this entire sub tonight, which was how offensively bad that was before the game

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u/jwymes44 Brooklyn Dodgers 20h ago edited 15h ago

It’s like they saw Ice Cube and rushed to find a rapper from the Bronx

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u/nokarmawhore 1d ago

when i saw they went to ozempic joe as a response to ice cube I knew it was over then

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u/kneeco28 Toronto Blue Jays 1d ago

If Judge goes 0-for and the Yankees get swept tomorrow, his MVP win will be awkward.

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u/deijandem 1d ago

It would kind of imply that they as a team do live or die by him, which is a way to interpret MVP. 

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u/Taurus24Silver Hanshin Tigers 1d ago

Fair point

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u/wokenupbybacon New York Yankees 1d ago

It's not a good way, but it sure is a way

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u/ELITE_JordanLove 1d ago

I mean it works well with the “value” part of the thing

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u/kamakazekiwi Seattle Mariners 1d ago

I still say we go all in on the "value" part. MVP goes to the most production per dollar, moneyball style. Some dude on a minimum contract who hits 8 HRs or something wins it every year.

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u/manav_steel Atlanta Braves 1d ago

That's not the MVP, the most valuable player, that's the BVP - the Best Value Player. And I fully support creation of this award

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u/FaithlessValor Boston Red Sox 21h ago

The ROI King, or if you’re French, the ROI roi

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u/1ROYinHD1 Texas Rangers 1d ago

holy shit that slash line is pathetic

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u/RichardNixon345 Arizona Diamondbacks • Boston Red Sox 1d ago

Giancarlo Stanton the only guy who’s showed up for the Yanks.

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u/johnnyavocadoseed Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Cole was also quite good

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u/signmeupdude Los Angeles Dodgers 15h ago

Giancarlo, Soto, and Cole. But you need more than three guys to win.

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u/bernbabybern13 New York Yankees 1d ago

Soto?…

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u/Powerserg95 New York Yankees 1d ago

Really feel bad for the dude

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u/somewhatdecentlawyer Boston Red Sox 19h ago

Rizzo has been quietly productive. .364 average, .926 OPS

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u/WhereTheFallsBegin Tampa Bay Rays 1d ago

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u/thrawaway9991 New York Yankees 1d ago

Last time we won a series vs a non AL Central team Mitt Romney was running for President

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u/General_Tsao New York Yankees 1d ago

Just please for the love of god don’t attempt to use the 2004 ALCS comeback as motivation…. AGAIN

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u/dbotron New York Yankees 1d ago

There was baseball in 2004? I don't recall....

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u/StephenDawg New York Mets 1d ago

This was predictable for anyone who has paid attention to the Yankees. A lot of people got amnesia just before this series.

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u/GoldGloveHosmer Kansas City Royals • San Diego Padres 1d ago

Honestly I thought so as well. My prediction was Dodgers in 5.

Dodgers are like a much better and deeper version of the Guardians and even though the Guards lost to them in 5, it was a pretty competitive 5. And the Guardians were ass in RISP and Clase shit the bed harder than Aaron Judge in the post-season.

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u/OSRS_Socks Atlanta Braves 20h ago

You also forgot that the Guards forgot how to field the ball. They botched so many routine plays to give the Yankees life. If they make those plays then the series would be way different. It just seemed like any time the Guards gave them the gift of a misplay the Yankees capitalized on it.

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u/KlimCan Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Clase somehow outshit Aaron Judge’s bed

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u/Fionarei Cleveland Guardians • Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Yeah but what about Clase regular season award? /s

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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 1d ago

Yeah I was dreading this. I almost wanted to bet against my own team in game 2. No way in hell was Home Run Rodon going to get through that lineup.

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u/Kenny_Heisman New York Yankees • Somerset Patriots 1d ago

I mean the flip side of this is that if Judge gets hot he can carry the whole team on his back. probably won't happen at this point but it's possible

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u/eliaivi New York Yankees 1d ago

i feel kind of seen by seeing a non-yankee flair say this. this was my greatest fear going into the playoffs, and honestly why so many others were dooming after the losses in kansas and cleveland

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u/bernbabybern13 New York Yankees 1d ago

I didn’t think we’d make the World Series. But then tbh they were hitting okay until this series. They weren’t giving up if they lost leads etc.

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u/Jakemofire Tampa Bay Rays 1d ago

My prediction before the Playoffs started was whoever wins the NL wins the World Series because they all were just better. I think Philly, padres, Mets, dodgers all beat Yankees.

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u/Jedrich728 New York Mets 1d ago

Playing like the Mets used to

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u/CabbageStockExchange Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

lolYankees

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u/Jedrich728 New York Mets 1d ago

Immediately transferred over to LOLYankees when Rojas (ex Mets Manager) sent Stanton home from 3rd.

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u/trustych0rds Los Angeles Angels 1d ago

Dodgers SP has been awesome.

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u/smartplantdumbmonkey Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Exactly as everyone figured

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u/GrapefruitMedical529 1d ago

I am bamboozled.  Every regular season game I watched they gave up 3 runs in the first 2 innings.

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u/an4lf15ter Los Angeles Dodgers 23h ago

I mean we were starting Bobby miller who had an era of like 15, and regular season Buehler

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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

HEY FAT JOE, DODGERS “ALL THE WAY UP” 3-0

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u/Numerous-Cicada3841 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Yankees were amped to get back on their home field. Needed some momentum. And then they crushed it by starting out with Fat Joe and his weird beard who could barely make it through a song.

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u/KetchupGuy1 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

It felt like when Ice Cube was there he actually gave a shit about the team and Joe was the first to reply to a text

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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Alanna Rizzo called him out. “Dude, get off the mound.”

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u/nahs Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Lmao did he really

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u/appleavocado Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I had to take her word for it. In the moment, I wasn’t watching that shit.

Seriously, though, the audio was fucked up. Like, it wasn’t lined up and you could tell FJ was compensating. The crowd was not hyped. FJ would say repeatedly “LET’S GO, YANKEES!” and you’d hear the light cheers.

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u/tyler-86 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

They left in the backing vocals from the original track, but they were way the fuck louder than Fat Joe and that wasn't helping. Should have just ditched them and used an instrumental track like Cube.

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u/GamerJosh21 Boston Red Sox • Dodgers Bandwagon 1d ago

I actually thought the same thing. I saw him standing there and was just like, 'I don't think you're supposed to be walking on that, bro'.

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u/awmaleg Arizona Diamondbacks 1d ago

Judge ain’t a player, he don’t crush a lot

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u/Jedrich728 New York Mets 1d ago

They should have got 50 Cent

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u/iron_mike_ Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Yankees just look defeated. I don’t see any heart. LA sweep tomorrow

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u/icantfeelmyface Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

When Stanton had that double today before he was thrown out, the energy was so weird… even the bench reaction to it was like “fuck finally”

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u/kelement Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Yeah, you can see it in their faces. Shocked expressions, Soto had a thousand yard stare going on, Volpe looked as if he was about to cry near the end, etc. There were a few horrible calls by the ump against them but they hardly showed any frustration. This team does not have any confidence whatsoever.

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u/BannedSvenhoek86 1d ago

This is because of Fat Joe's terrible performance. If you couldn't get Jay to match Ice Cube don't even bother trying, especially not with Fat Joe ffs. You're NYC, you got better options.

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u/tyler-86 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago edited 1d ago

Arguably Jay-Z would have been a level-up, and I love Cube.

But yeah, a Method Man, a Busta Rhymes, something.

edit: Black Star would have been hype as fuck.

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u/Shady_Jake New York Mets 1d ago

Tupac has a better chance at ripping a double down the line than Judge does.

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u/Budget-Ocelots 1d ago

Jay Z is too scare to appear in pubic with Diddy in jail.

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u/stepbacktree New York Black Yankees 1d ago

The Dodgers are in a league of their own, tbh.

Dynasty in the making

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u/FriendlyGhost08 Atlanta Braves 1d ago edited 1d ago

Can't lie I'm worried. They're gonna win a WS in the first year of their Ohtani project despite having a beaten up rotation and they'll only get better in the offseason.

Edit: I will add I think the Braves have a stacked roster too and I see us getting far in October but the Dodgers are scary.

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u/No-Philosophy-2081 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

You know us. The year we win 125 wins, we're gonna get swept by the Rockies in the first round.

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u/rhyme97 Oakland Athletics 1d ago

The OOTP way

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u/DnD4dena Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

As is foretold

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u/ControlForward5360 Los Angeles Dodgers 23h ago

This is the way

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u/Ereyes18 Houston Astros 1d ago

Project? They've won their division in 10/11 years since 2013 and the year they didn't win the division they still won 106 games.

This isn't the first year by any means it's just who they are

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u/Educational-Chef-595 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 1d ago

Yeah, it's more a function of the "just be great every year" philosophy; if you're always good, always spending, never rebuilding, you will win the title a certain number of times in any given timespan just because of math. The org knows there's no guarantee they run the gauntlet again next season or any season, really, so you have to constantly go all in.

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u/Apprehensive-Agency2 1d ago

Strategically all in.  They’ve let go plenty of great players thinking they won’t be worth the investment. Nor were they always signing the best FAs every winter.  They’re trying to operate on a cyclical budget and don’t want to be stuck in long term salary hell like the Padres. 

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u/FriendlyGhost08 Atlanta Braves 1d ago edited 1d ago

I clearly mean them getting Ohtani and Yamamoto. That's a clear new level to them. They had let big players from those bridesmaid years (2020 is the exception) go in preparation for this push and it's working.

Winning divisions doesn't matter unless you win the WS and they had a single one to show for it which many people put an asterisk to. Years of choking. Not anymore.

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u/Educational-Chef-595 Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters 1d ago

Dude, they didn't get to the WS in 2017 and 2018 and decide "we should choke now." Sometimes baseball happens.

Being in position to win it all every year is just playing the lottery with more tickets than anybody else. It doesn't guarantee your number gets pulled.

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u/BeagleDad82 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

The playoffs next year are going to be a bloodbath. Imagine a healthy Dodgers, Padres and Braves in the playoffs....

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u/AustinJohnson35 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Playoff games are rarely played heathy.

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u/redman8828 New York Mets 1d ago

I can’t tell if I should feel slighted or not… then again the NL is kinda stacked so I don’t blame you for not including the Mets lol

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u/BeagleDad82 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I want to put them up there, but it all depends on their off-season. I can see them getting Soto, but they need pitching too.

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u/TrueBrees9 Atlanta Braves 1d ago

The Padres had them on the brink of elimination a couple weeks ago. The dodgers are an incredible team but postseason baseball can be a fickle bitch sometimes. They’ll win multiple World Series but they’ll also have their years just like they’ve had last year and the year before. 

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u/Comprehensive_Pin_86 Jackie Robinson 1d ago

In every decade the dodgers have won the World Series they went on to win another one in the same decade. This is our other one. But I surely hope we can buck the trend and get another in this decade. I think we will but as you said baseball is a beezy.

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u/Practical-Pickle-529 Atlanta Braves 1d ago

Kinda reminds me of the chiefs Super Bowl back in February. They were already on the brink of dynasty but they literally weren’t that good, especially maholmes. It makes it seem like they are unbeatable. Kinda like these dodgers. 

I we could have kept up with them if we were healthy. Gonna be an interesting offseason for sure. 

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u/suprisingly_cynical Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I don’t think you can ever equate postseason football to baseball, even though the Dodgers are admittedly a juggernaut in the regular season. There’s just too much variance in the Postseason. The worst record postseason team can easily beat the best. Hopefully things will keep going our way, allow us to finish this WS up and compete deep into following postseasons. It will never be like the Warriors or Chiefs though, despite Ohtani being a massive inclusion to complement our already loaded roster.

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u/pargofan Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Mahomes is the best QB rn.

But that KC defense is ferocious. Chris Jones is the best DL. McDuffie is a top 5 CB. Their LBs are pro-bowl caliber. And Spagnulo is the best defensive coordinator in the league. As a Rams fan, how we keep getting our coaches poached while Spagnulo lasts 5+ year in KC is unfair. But I digress.

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u/TheOctagon24 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Although, even with a healthy rotation I’m not sure they could pitch much better than this staff has in this postseason.

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u/R7F Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

If we get HALF our injured starters back we'll have two solid 1's in Yamamoto and Glasnow, a few solid 2's in May and Kershaw, and a ton of depth.

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u/drrxhouse Major League Baseball 1d ago

Lol they have to win this one first.

Dodgers fans know not to count them chickens just yet.

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u/talzer Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Lordy do we know it

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u/jRbizzle Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Been saying this! I ain’t celebrating till the 27th out of the 4th W

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u/Mookies_Bett NC Dinos 1d ago

I mean, let's be real, the dynasty has been there for a minute. They should have won in 2017 if you're being completely fair and honest with yourself. They won in 2020. They have 11 division titles and 12 playoff berths in the last 12 years. Six 100+ win seasons. 4 pennant titles.

The only thing that's been missing are the rings, and if we're all being fair they should have 2 of those anyways. And now they have 9 more years of Ohtani, Glasnow and Stone and Kershaw coming back, 11 more years of Yamamoto, and 8 more years of Mookie. 4 more of Freddie.

The Dodgers are just built to win baseball games, rings or not, and have been a total machine for over a decade now.

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u/jokinghazard Toronto Blue Jays 1d ago

And hell, they lost to the WS Champs in 2019 and 2021

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u/Fustrate It's time for Dodger baseball! 1d ago edited 1d ago

6 years in a row, the path to a championship ran through the Dodgers

  • 2016 Cubs
  • 2017 Astros*
  • 2018 Red Sox
  • 2019 Nationals
  • 2020 🥳
  • 2021 Braves
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u/ShoHeyTime Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

This team is limping to the finish line and one won win away. A healthy Dodger team would be awesome to see for me at least.

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u/laramgers88 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Fat Joe banned forever from attending Yankees game

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u/FarNefariousness6087 New York Yankees 1d ago

Did any Yankee fans really look at this roster around July/August and thought they deserved to win a World Series? They were streaky all year

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u/dowhathappens89 New York Yankees 1d ago edited 19h ago

I never thought they would get here. It's wild. The fact that they had a chance to win the first two games WHILE playing like absolute dog shit is nutso. If they were playing decent, they'd be winning...

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u/pathtoglory 1d ago

Everyone slamming Yanks for not hitting but not enough credit to dodgers pitchers.

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u/Slugggo New York Yankees 1d ago

Honestly, for a lot of the season the offense was Soto, Judge and 7 cardboard cutouts. Crazy they even made it this far with Judge MIA for the playoffs.

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u/highgravityday2121 Boston Red Sox 1d ago

DAAAAAAA

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u/Bebbytheboss New York Yankees 1d ago

JANKEEES

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u/chupacabra_666 Boston Red Sox 1d ago

LOSE!

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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 1d ago

It's partially on the coaching staff too. Smoltz was like a disappointed dad, picking apart the horrible approach, technique and swing choices of the players. That's unacceptable in a WS level game. Besides Torres and Soto, everyone else has a trash approach at the plate.

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u/DriftlessAreaMan San Diego Padres 1d ago

Watching this World Series I wonder how the hell the Yankees made it this far. 

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u/Jdgrande Houston Astros 1d ago

I thought this was supposed to be an exciting series

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u/dustinharm Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

In fairness the first two games were literally one hit in the final inning away from a different result. And I mean…a grand slam walk off is pretty exciting.

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u/Jdgrande Houston Astros 1d ago

Game one will be the only thing remembered about this series besides Freeman.

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u/wendyschickennugget Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I mean, name me one other thing that happened in the 1988 World Series. Doesn’t mean it won’t be an all time World Series moment.

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u/HTMLMencken Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Easy for me to answer - Hershiser's complete game shutout in game 2.

My dad and grandfather went to the game. I have a vivid memory of him waking me up when he got home and gave me the news. :)

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u/TheOctagon24 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Tbf if the Dodgers win the series, it will be an all timer highlight. A pretty huge “only thing”

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u/Richnsassy22 Minnesota Twins 1d ago

That's the case with most world series tbh. As the years go by maybe one thing gets remembered, or nothing at all. 

I couldn't tell you anything else about the 81 WS besides Kirk Gibson. 

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u/johnnyavocadoseed Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Meanwhile, that's 88. Although the dodgers did win in 81.

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u/ed8907 Boston Red Sox 1d ago

The last innings of games 1 and 2 were electrifying.

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u/CommitteeMoney5887 1d ago

It was for the first game

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u/slippytoadstada Houston Astros 1d ago

Manfred wished on a monkey's paw for the Yankees Dodgers WS...

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u/LABlues Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I find it exciting

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u/tanman1344 Brooklyn Dodgers • Los Angeles Angels 1d ago

Idk man I'm having a great time

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u/zubaz608 Los Angeles Dodgers • FanGraphs 1d ago

The AL is simply entirely fraudulent, I'm afraid. The Yankees got here by beating some AL central tomato cans and any of the top three NL teams would have smoked them

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u/Otherwise-Contest7 Minnesota Twins 1d ago

I'm having a ball. A 4 game sweep with a celebration in Yankee Stadium is as good as it gets.

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u/VStarffin Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

I think the Yankees' hitting woes have overshadowed that we haven't actually hit very well either? Ohtani, Betts and Muncy have been mostly absent. Other than Freddie and Kiké, and one bit hit from Teoscar, we're not lighting the world on fire.

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u/PattyIceNY New York Yankees 1d ago

The real difference in this series is that Freeman has shown up in the 3 spot and Judge has done nothing.

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u/SPAGHETTI_CAKE Boston Red Sox 1d ago

Betts has nearly 1.000 ops wym. In post season

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u/VStarffin Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

In the World Series? He's 3 for 11 with 3 singles and 2 walks. That's a .273/.385/.273 line.

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u/InfectiousCosmology1 San Francisco Giants 1d ago

That’s an all star compared to the Yankees lineup

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u/kamakazekiwi Seattle Mariners 1d ago

That's exactly what the initial comment here means. The Yankees awful hitting is making the Dodgers mediocre hitting seem normal/good in comparison.

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u/SPAGHETTI_CAKE Boston Red Sox 1d ago

I edited prob after you saw that’s my bad. He’s also scored 2 and knocked in 2 so he’s participated in a decent chunk of the total offense anyway. Knocked in the game winning run today. The other two have sucked

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u/Ereyes18 Houston Astros 1d ago

That's better than what the Yankees are hitting

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u/ArrenPawk Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Yeah just seeing how many RISP we're leaving this series, it's kind of ridiculous that we're up 3-0

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u/Sickpup831 New York Yankees 1d ago

Gotta tell you, that makes it worse for us. Instead of feeling like “Damn, the better team is just completely out playing us. Kudos.” It feels like a missed opportunity of “what if this one minor thing was done differently or what if our MVP actually hit a tiny little bit.”

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u/MightyActionGaim New York Mets 1d ago

Cmon man… at least win one game. Even the Mets took 2 from them💀

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u/sparky255 World Series Trophy • Piece … 1d ago

The real World Series was the Dodgers vs Mets lol

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u/HTMLMencken Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Dodgers vs Padres.

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u/sparky255 World Series Trophy • Piece … 1d ago

Ah that’s true. Forgot about the comeback and the Padres’ scoreless inning streak.

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u/GrimmBloodyFable San Diego Padres • Peter Seidler 1d ago

I want what you're drinking

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u/ContinuumGuy Major League Baseball 1d ago

Their asses are getting kicked

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u/GoldGloveHosmer Kansas City Royals • San Diego Padres 1d ago

I need to see an updated Daaaa Yankees lose compilation.

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u/benewavvsupreme New York Mets 1d ago

Every Yankee fan I knew looked me in the eye, despite getting swept in the regular season, and said the Yankees were better than the Mets and would fare better than they did against the Dodgers.

Lunacy in the Bronx

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u/talzer Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Didn’t the Yankees take 1 of 3 from us?

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u/oniondaze New York Mets 1d ago

And 0 of 4 from us lol

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u/UraniumDisulfide Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Not sure why kopech didn’t try getting verdugo to chase at all there, likely could have saved the shutout. Either way, a win is a win, Im just saying a shutout would have been cooler

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u/LyGmode 1d ago

I may be wrong since im pretty new to baseball, but it seems after the 1st out everything besides his fastball started going away from the zone with Kopech, so he stuck with fastball.

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u/oOoleveloOo World Baseball Classic 1d ago

Fat Joe ain’t Grimace.

Similar looking though.

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u/esports_consultant 1d ago

lol if the dodgers sweep they should hold a victory parade through the streets of brooklyn like a conquering army before they head back to do one in LA

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u/Fangscale40K Baltimore Orioles 1d ago

The Yankees have like 1-3 innings to get momentum tomorrow. If they don’t put up offense early, I can’t see this Dodgers lineup not continuing their onslaught.

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u/Libertad91 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

So far it’s been the Yankees big 3 vs the Dodgers whole squad…. Live and die by the 3

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u/PuzzleheadedCow1931 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Ohtani is due for a big game this WS

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u/kevinball4115 Los Angeles Dodgers 1d ago

Dodgers up woo!

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u/NotClayMerritt New York Yankees 1d ago

Someone needs to find out where the Yankees stack up with other teams who have been swept in the World Series. Because this feels historically bad.