PHOENIX -- There is no letting up or sigh of relief in the World Series until the final out is recorded. But hitting for the cycle and scoring five runs in back-to-back innings early will give a team the opportunity to play free on the opposing turf.
Take it from someone who attended every single game in the Bronx during the 2009 World Series: Yankee Stadium is usually a lot louder than this. There were occasional moments Monday night when Yankees fans got going a little bit,but after Freeman’s first-inning home run, there was a clear...
Inside Cody Bellinger's blast: Going deep on Game 1's biggest moment 4yBradford Doolittle Indeed, the last play of the game was the highest-leverage play of Game 4. With a leverage index of 6.69, per FanGraphs, it was easily the highest-leverage play of the World Series. Bef...
Down 3-2, Baltimore took Game 6 in 10 innings by a score of 4-3 when Frank Robinson scored on a Brooks Robinson sacrifice fly. Dave McNally, pitching in relief in the 10th inning, got the final out with the bases loaded. Clemente hit a solo homer in Game 7, the Pirates ad...
few cagey moments in this series so far, mainly due to the quality of both of these bullpens. However, in Game 4 they leaked runs. 11 relievers gave up 10 runs from the 5th inning onwards.Enrique Hernándezextended the Dodgers lead to 4-2 with a passion-filled double to scoreWill Smith...
Though Arizona had saved itself from a potentially disastrous scoreline, its efforts were too little, too late, with Leclerc picking up the final out to push the Diamondbacks to the brink in the best-of-seven series, 3-1. This was Texas’ 10th straight road playoff win, the longest strea...
Fans interfere with a foul ball caught by Los Angeles Dodgers right fielder Mookie Betts during the first inning in Game 4 of the World Series against the New York Yankees on Oct. 29, 2024 in New York.Ashley Landis / AP Gleyber Torres fouled a ball into right fie...
3. After the Giants surged ahead, 7-4, in the last of the sixth, they turned to former Royal Jeremy Affeldt to protect the lead. That’s been a flawless plan dating back to Game 3 of the 2010 World Series. The southpaw retired the side on 12 pitches, his 21st consecutive scoreless ...
García was the ALCS MVP and was raking again in this World Series, including the walk-off homer to end Game 1 and lock in a place in World Series history. But when he immediatelygrabbed his side after flying out to center fieldin the eighth inning of Game 3, the baseball world did ...
Every pitch delivered by Nathan Eovaldi in Game 5 of the World Series carried extra weight as D-backs starter Zac Gallen no-hit the Rangers into the seventh inning at Chase Field. If Eovaldi could limit Arizona, though, he could give his team a chance to get hot late and capture the ...